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Potterphiles will dutifully flock together for their annual pilgrimage to Hogwarts and Potterphobes will never know what theyve missed. Suffice to say that by all accounts, HP4 The Goblet of Fire is far and away the best of the movie franchise so far, darker, scarier and even more compelling than
Generally considered one of the truly great movies of the 1970s, McCabe and Mrs. Miller is Robert Altmans poignant anti-Western Western, a genre-subverting multi-layered tour de force shot in grainy, washed-out colours and gloomy shadows in the snowbound landscape of the north-west frontier at the
Youre always trying to break up with me and were not even together, says life-saving terminally upbeat flight attendant Claire (kooky Kirsten Dunst) to suicidal shoe designer Drew (bland Orlando Bloom) some way into their relationship, having first met on a flight as he is called to attend his
Prepare to be disappointed be the maverick, eccentric and intermittently brilliant Terry Gilliams original, inventive and frantic take on the famous fairy tale creators Wilhelm and Jacob, The Brothers Grimm. Conceived as roving charlatans peddling their tales to a gullible German public in the time of Napoleon, the brothers are
Remember Giambologna’s turkey in the Bargello? Did you ever wonder if that sixteenth-century Florentine bronze sculpture had anything to do with the roasted and stuffed bird that you gobble up at Thanksgiving and Christmas? With the bird that Benjamin Franklin had wanted to put on the American
As the sun beats down on St. Peter’s Square, tourists and pilgrims stand in a long line waiting to enter Vatican City. Souvenir stands filled with a large selection of rosaries and other trinkets surround the imposing square. “How much?” asks a young Polish pilgrim,
An interview with Ron Cook, American president of the historic Florentine espresso machine company La Marzocco. Ron Cook is always excited to talk about the company he runs, and on a recent warm fall day, while he fiddled with the latest deluxe Marzocco espresso machine model GB/5 (that
As its title suggests, Robert Altman's masterpiece is set in the world of Country music, but with its cast of 24 characters and almost the same number of intertwined and intersecting stories, it delves deep into the conciousness and conscience of America circa 1975 in Altman's unmistakable mosiac
Based on the TV series 'Firefly', 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer', 'Angel' (and 'Firefly') creator Joss Whedon's first feature film is a CGI-free sci-fi action adventure, in other words a good old-fashioned space opera, with a ready-made cult status, clever script and effective cast. By general
Follow-up to the 1998 success The Mask of Zorro by the same director, the main attractions of that film, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Antonio Banderas are back in the rather less engaging continuation of the swashbuckling legend. What is lacks in credible story line it makes up for in
A great 1970s classic, MASH is one of maverick director Robert Altman's most important films, and the one that enabled him to cock a snook at Hollywood and pursue an independent career. With gruesome black humour delivered with perfect timing by a cast of outstanding comic actors, anarchic improvisations
The name Tim Burton is synonymous with eccentricity and the macabre, and leading it to this production (actually he's co-director) is guaranteed to pull an assortment Goths and stray spectres recovering from Halloween excess. Using stop-motion animation, Burton and Mike Johnson create a dark Victorian world of
“Please, sir, I want some more…” and more we get from Roman Polanski’s adaptationof Dickens’s famous novel, the umpteenth screen version of the Victorian rags to riches story, which ears ...
‘Hide your bridemaids’ the tagline goes. And spare you embarrassment at a sad mad-cap misfire of a movie. Wedding crashers had all the best ideas for starters- a determined quest ...
A few metres from the Bargello – to be precise, at Via del Proconsolo 16r – stands a fine building, once the home of the Guild of Judges and Notaries, and now the property of an art-loving enthusiast who is also a gastronomic entrepreneur. The result is that
I know the perfect person in need of a make-over Italian style. My sister, Kim Landry, is 29 and has never had a make-over in her life. She is from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and is in Florence studying at the Angel Academy of Art. She arrived a month
Unlike most people, I am usually filled with a sense of dread by the thought of a few days in Italy. Not because I have anything against its people or their magnificent country, but because in my profession a three-day trip to Italy usually equates to a huge amount
I need that special place, but... nothing in the centre (too many tourists); nothing on the other side of town (that’s not our neighbourhood); nothing out in the country (it’s too far for a weeknight); nothing affordable (not special enough for the occasion); nothing new (what
I was in DC’s hotspot Lauriol a couple weeks ago, indulging in their signature drink – a heavenly (looking and tasting) swirl frozen margarita, and catching up with a friend I had not seen in over a year. Next to us, a white man sporting a
What do you love about Florence? You’re going to be surprised, but I love the chaos. I come from a very orderly country, Denmark, where everything is arranged ...
‘Hide your bridemaids’ the tagline goes. And spare you embarrassment at a sad mad-cap misfire of a movie. Wedding crashers had all the best ideas for starters- a determined quest ...
Introducing a seven part Robert Altman season, this example of the great American directors theatrical work from the 1980s follows on from the James Dean commemoration just finished. In a Texas diner, near the set of Giant, a fans reunion on the 20th anniversary of Deans death unearths old hostilities
