Aug
2009
Articles from 21st Aug 2009
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The Voluntary Butler Scheme at the Masque at Barfly, Liverpool
Aug 21 2009 | Liverpool Arts
THE Voluntary Butler Scheme, no it’s not a community service programme for the upper classes but one of the hottest music acts right now. Read
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Basement Jaxx: Simon and Felix on touring and their fifth album
Aug 21 2009 | Liverpool Arts
IF THE very idea of going to a music festival has you wondering where your slippers are, then spare a thought for Basement Jaxx. The dance outfit has been on the circuit since June, and they will still be plugging their mixing desk come autumn. Read
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Film Review: Inglourious Basterds (18)
Aug 21 2009 | Liverpool Arts
"ONCE upon a time in Nazi-occupied France . . . ” begins Quentin Tarantino’s long-mooted war opus, a blood-soaked fairytale divided into five hefty chapters. Read
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Film Review: I Love you, Beth Cooper (15)
Aug 21 2009 | Liverpool Arts
DENIS COOVERMAN, the valedictorian of Buffalo Grove High School with incredible grades and a place at Stanford University, decides to declare his feelings for a girl who doesn’t know he exists. Read
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Film Review: Shorts (PG)
Aug 21 2009 | Liverpool Arts
DIRECTOR Robert Rodriguez returns to more family-friendly fare with a colour-saturated adventure reminiscent of his Spy Kids films. Read
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This week's DVDs: In the Loop (15)
Aug 21 2009 | Liverpool Arts
DIRECTOR Armando Iannucci reunites with the writing team from his award-winning BBC Four series The Thick Of It, cramming more belly laughs into the first 20 minutes of this satire than most comedies manage in two hours. The only danger is you’ll be guffawing so hard at some of the gags, the next punchline will be lost. Read
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Current Cinema releases: The Time Traveller's Wife (12A)
Aug 21 2009 | Liverpool Arts
UNFOLDING over the course of 35 years, The Time Traveler’s Wife recounts a heartbreaking romance between two people who were always destined to meet and fall in love – one of whom suffers from random fits of time-travelling. Read
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Jason Manford on stand-up, panel shows and being a new dad
Aug 21 2009 | Liverpool Arts
A COUPLE of years ago, a pudgy Manc comic and an effete, slightly Oriental-looking man stood in the car park outside a working men’s club in the north-east of England. Read
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Classical Music: Ernest Jones delightfully English music is like a draught of fresh spring water
Aug 21 2009 | Liverpool Arts
POOR Whitchurch. Once cursed by impatient drivers on the A41 as they tried to penetrate its clogged streets, now with by-pass in place it is forgotten. Read
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Why Pedro Almodovar loves Penelope Cruz
Aug 21 2009 | Film & Cinema
PEDRO ALMODOVAR bursts into the room offering water, coffee or gin and tonic. He sits down – a piping hot double espresso in front of him – and beams at everyone around the table. Read
