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Articles from 20th Nov 2009
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The Twilight Saga: New Moon film gallery
Nov 20 2009 | Liverpool Arts
As the eagerly anticipated second instalment of the Twilight saga hits cinemas, take a look at our New Moon gallery Read
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Film Review: The Twilight Saga: New Moon (12A)
Nov 20 2009 | Liverpool Arts
NOT since Harry Potter first cast a spell over cinema audiences has a franchise based on a series of best-selling novels been as completely critic-proof as The Twilight Saga. Read
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Cinema Round-up: 2012 (12A)
Nov 20 2009 | Liverpool Arts
HAVING previously destroyed all the major cities in an alien invasion (Independence Day) and plunged the globe back into the Ice Age (The Day After Tomorrow), director Roland Emmerich goes one better in 2012 by trying to wipe out the entire human race. Read
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Film Review: A Serious Man (15)
Nov 20 2009 | Liverpool Arts
IF FORTUNE truly favours the brave, it’s no surprise that the hen-pecked, mild-mannered mensch at the centre of Joel and Ethan Coen’s new black comedy is pummelled senseless by bad luck. Read
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Film Review: The Informant! (15)
Nov 20 2009 | Liverpool Arts
IN THE early 1990s, family man Mark Whitacre decided to blow the whistle on a global price-fixing scam in the agricultural industry. Read
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DVD Releases: My Sister’s Keeper (12)
Nov 20 2009 | Liverpool Arts
BRIAN FITZGERALD (Jason Patric) and his wife Sara (Cameron Diaz) are blissfully happy with their son Jesse and two-year-old daughter, Kate. Read
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Classical Music: A marvellous fantasy of Christmas music
Nov 20 2009 | Liverpool Arts
ENGLISH Christmas music began in 1918. That may be a slight exaggeration to be found in a programme note by John Allison in a new anthology called in Terra Pax, but it is largely true. In medieval times, carols were supplanted by chant, and Cromwell banned them altogether – indeed, even Christmas was outlawed at one time by Parliamentary decree. Festivity was out. Carols survived like folk music only in remote rural communities. Read
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Chaka Khan joins Lulu and Anastacia at the Philharmonic Hall
Nov 20 2009 | Liverpool Arts
Who is she? A Grammy Award-winning R & B legend and major gay icon, born Yvette Marie Stevens in Chicago in 1953. Read
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Richard Dunbar presents his new play The Arborites at the Cornerstone Festival
Nov 20 2009 | Liverpool Arts
BEFORE Andrea Dunbar based her play Rita, Sue and Bob Too on Bradford’s Buttershaw Estate, most of middle England had never heard of the place. Read
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Spies and silliness Playhouse tackles Broadway hit The 39 Steps
Nov 20 2009 | Liverpool Arts
As the Playhouse gears up to present its own production of a Broadway hit, Laura Davis meets the stars of The 39 Steps Read
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Jamie Cullum: I owe it all to Michael Parkinson
Nov 20 2009 | Liverpool Arts
Jamie Cullum’s success is down to a certain white-haired chat show host. Polly Weeks talks to the pint-sized singer Read
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Twilight idol Robert Pattinson seems a little unsure what all the fuss is about
Nov 20 2009 | Liverpool Arts
A DOOR swings open and, for just the briefest of moments, the silhouette of Robert Pattinson can be made out standing against a window. Slouching with his hands in his pockets and his head lowered, it’s a glimpse of Hollywood’s hottest property and the object of desire for millions of hormone-fuelled fans across the globe. Read
