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One movie, two takes: Good luck to you, Leo Grande
Brave, entertaining and hopeful, this British sex comedy-drama delivers 97 very well-spent minutes
I’d rather have the rabbit
Not the movie of the week: Shaun de Waal reviews <i>Last Chance Harvey</i>, starring a not-so-charming Dustin Hoffman opposite Emma Thompson.
Catholic tastes
NOT QUITE THE MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Shaun de Waal reviews Brideshead Revisited, a film based on a novel of the same title by Evelyn Waugh.
Blistering barnacles! It’s Spielberg’s new Tintin
For those who remember, he was the young boy who gets the girl in the film Love Actually. For those who don’t, Thomas Sangster may yet become a household name. The sixth-former…
It’s still a man’s world at the Davos forum
Women may be smashing glass ceilings on Wall Street, but a walk down the corridors of the World Economic Forum would have you fooled. Organisers say female delegates make up 17%…
Few new flavours for HP sauce
MOVIE OF THE WEEK: The Harry Potter franchise: It’s like we’re treading water until the big climax arrives, writes Shaun de Waal.
The female sex and the city
Urban planning expert Vanessa Watson feels strongly that African cities have failed the average woman. "Too much of our planning has tended to import models from the United…