- 'Sharp drop' in degree courses
- Travellers 'hit by rip-off charges'
- Probe into sex-selection abortions
- UK urged to support tar sands ban
- GPs 'over-paid for ghost patients'
- Action urged on hip fracture costs
- Clegg reveals £1bn jobs fund boost
- RBS set to unveil £400m bonus pot
- Tributes to 'jolly jester' Carson
- Fast-track asylum delays criticised
- Korean firm wins MoD tankers deal
- Mother and daughter given Asbos
- 'Exceptionally' mild weather on way
- Teenager 'repeatedly raped by gang'
- Man quizzed over women's murders
- Cherie Blair makes phone hack claim
- Man accused of murdering vicar
- Peacocks saved, but 3,000 jobs go
- Sex attacker was under surveillance
- RBS set to unveil £400m bonus pot
Cinema
Unlocking the cage
He’s been called an oddball thanks to his fearless choice of film roles. However, Nicolas Cage tells Susan Griffin that playing characters such as a motorbike-riding henchman of the Devil actually clears his head.
Review: Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengence 3D (12A)
NICOLAS Cage reprises his role as a motorcycle rider condemned to do the Devil’s bidding in this action-driven sequel directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor.
Review: A Dangerous Method
LET’S talk about sex.
Screenwriter Christopher Hampton does so with arch detachment in A Dangerous Method, an artfully-composed portrait of intellectual one-upmanship adapted from his 2002 stage play, The Talking Cure.
Review: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
PUBLISHED in 2005, Jonathan Safran Foer’s second novel Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close revisited the deadliest act of terrorism committed on American soil through the eyes of a nine-year-old boy.
Review: The Vow (12)
Leo (Channing Tatum) glimpses Paige (Rachel McAdams) in a queue and flirts with her, using his charm and good looks to secure a memorable first date.
Review: The Woman In Black (12A)
LESS is certainly more in The Woman In Black, a chilling film version of the celebrated novel by Susan Hill, which has been re-imagined as a television movie, a radio series and a hit stage play in the 30 years since its publication.
Review: Big Miracle (PG)
IN 1988 countries came together in a rare demonstration of solidarity to free three grey whales stranded in the pack ice near Barrow Point in Alaska.
Review: The Muppets (U)
FOR more than 35 years, Kermit The Frog, Miss Piggy and their fun-loving friends have been firmly engrained in our rose-tinted childhood memories with their slapstick routines and song and dance numbers.
Review: The Grey (15)
AIR transport may well be trumpeted as the safest form of travel but for film-makers, the possibilities of disaster above terra firma are irresistible.
Review: A Monster In Paris (U)
A GIANT flea nurtures a passion for music in Bibo Bergeron’s computer-animated fable that teaches us to never judge a wingless, blood-sucking parasite by its spiny legs or hairy abdomen.
Review: Like Crazy (12A)
LOVE in its many wondrous forms is an essential component of the human experience.
Review: The Descendants (15)
GOOD things come to those who wait and it’s been an agonising seven years since writer-director Alexander Payne ventured to the sun-dappled vineyards of the quirky Oscar-winning comedy Sideways.
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Thursday 23 February 2012
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