EntertainmentBook Review: Late For Tea At The Deer PalaceWhen the stone deer was placed in position in the pool in front of the Chalabi home in Kazimiya, near Baghdad, locals immediately named the palatial home the Deer Palace. 09 Oct 04:00 PM
EntertainmentMovie Review: FootlooseFirst came Transformers, Tron, The A-Team, Clash of the Titans, and The Karate Kid, to name just a few, and now Hollywood has re-opened the 80s vault again with a remake of pop culture classic Footloose.07 Oct 05:35 PM
EntertainmentAlbum Review: Alice Cooper, Welcome 2 My NightmareThirty-five years on (or thereabouts), this is the sequel to Cooper's Welcome To My Nightmare album, his first solo outing following a clutch of classic records with the original Alice Cooper band.07 Oct 05:30 PM
EntertainmentMovie Review: Cave Of Forgotten DreamsThe visual trick that is 3D cinema is designed to heighten reality but, in my experience, makes it less convincing.07 Oct 05:30 PM
EntertainmentAlbum Review: Throwing Muses, The AnthologyIn typical Throwing Muses fashion, the American indie pop rock band - formed by step sisters Kristin Hersh and Tanya Donnelly in the early 80s - have put together a two-disc collection made up of songs they like.07 Oct 05:30 PM
OpinionTheatre review: The Angel & the Beloved, Hopetoun AlphaRainer Maria Rilke has always commanded a devoted following among connoisseurs of fine literature but he is also widely read. 06 Oct 12:05 AM
OpinionTheatre review: Love After Dark, The BasementThe Basement's reputation as a hot-house for new talent is emphatically confirmed by a blast of youthful energy that has teams of young actors, each with their own writer and director, devising three short plays.05 Oct 10:45 PM
EntertainmentAlbum Review: Blitzen Trapper, American GoldwingWith pedal steel, banjo and a melancholy delivery, some songs come close to classic country-influenced songs by Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clarke and Butch Hancock.05 Oct 05:30 PM
EntertainmentMovie Review: Real SteelAn at-times unusual blend of intense futuristic boxing and schmaltzy, predictable father and son drama, this science fiction adventure is a mixed bag but should find a keen audience these school holidays.05 Oct 05:30 PM
EntertainmentAlbum Review: Glen Campbell, Ghost on the CanvasAlongside his Alzheimer's diagnosis and a farewell tour comes this self-announced "final studio album" by the 75-year-old legend Glen Campbell.05 Oct 05:30 PM
EntertainmentAlbum Review: Tinariwen, TassiliThe tranquility and rejuvenating quality of Tinariwen's desert blues tunes is remarkable. That might sound a little hippie dippy - far-fetched, even - but the Tuareg Malian band's minimal music really does have that healing power. 05 Oct 05:30 PM
EntertainmentMovie Review: AbductionThe transition of the Twilight stars on to the next stage of their careers will prove interesting over the next few years; in Abduction we get to see Taylor Lautner make his first attempt.05 Oct 05:30 PM
EntertainmentAlbum Review: Opeth, HeritageAnd so ends the reign of one of the most fearsome, flamboyant and innovative metal bands ever to walk the earth. 05 Oct 05:30 PM
EntertainmentMovie Review: What's Your Number?Anna Faris has developed a distinctive ditzy blond routine that can be an acquired taste. Francesca Rudkin reports.05 Oct 05:30 PM
EntertainmentMovie Review: The OratorIt was tempting to expect that the first truly Samoan feature film might have been a small and precious thing, worth praising more for the promises it made for the future than for its achievement in its own right.05 Oct 05:30 PM
EntertainmentBook Review: Pao "Life is hard" is one of the Noble Truths and Yang Pao, as a young boy landing on the streets of Jamaica in the 1930s, learns that lesson quickly. 05 Oct 04:00 PM
EntertainmentBook Review: The Cat's TableIn the opening pages of Michael Ondaatje's new novel, a young boy named Michael sets out for England on a passenger liner. It's the early 1950s. 05 Oct 04:00 PM
EntertainmentTheatre Review: Yours Truly at The BasementPlaywright Albert Belz has earned considerable acclaim for his treatment of Maori subjects but his re-telling of the Jack the Ripper story seems to be making a statement about the perils of pigeon-holing writers according to their ethnicity.02 Oct 07:30 PM
EntertainmentAlbum Review: Wooden Shjips, WestWooden Shjips, out of San Francisco, once again serve up their particular brand of astral plane psychedelic drone-rock which sounds filtered through steel wool. 30 Sep 05:30 PM
EntertainmentAlbum Review: Wilco, The Whole LoveIf Wilco followers, especially those who signed on during their celebrated left-turn period of 2002's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and 2004's A Ghost Is Born, might have felt the band's more recent albums were playing it safe, then help is at hand.30 Sep 05:30 PM
EntertainmentAlbum Review: Nirvana, Nevermind (Super Deluxe Edition)The greats of the grunge era are still vying for market share, 20 years on. Scott Kara dives in.30 Sep 05:30 PM
