Monday, September 30, 2013

New York City Opera faces final curtain

The City Opera board has voted to dissolve the company if it fails to raise the $7 million it required to fund the rest of the current sea...

Downton Abbey's Jessica Brown Findlay to star in Jamaica Inn

Brown Findlay, who played Lady Sybil in the ITV costume drama, has been cast as Mary Yellan, the main character in the 1936 novel. Set...

Bullock: Son helped me through 'Gravity'

At age 45, Sandra Bullock revealed in April 2010 that she'd adopted a baby boy, Louis Bardo, from New Orleans. Halle Be...

Review: 'Rush' hits potholes

Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Brühl in the poster for the film 'Rush." Film is based on real-life rivalry between Formul...

William Boyd tinkers with typecast Bond in new novel "Solo"

Author William Boyd poses for photographers with one of the first copies of his new James Bond book 'Solo,'...

'Foodimals' stalk animated film world of 'Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2'

(L-R) Andy Samberg, Anna Faris, Bill Hader and Terry Crews, voice talents from the new Sony Pictures Animation fil...

Homeland (US), season three, episode one

He blames her for the attack, but not half as much as she blames herself: "If you're asking me, did Abu Nazir outsmart me, yes he...

Saturday, September 28, 2013

Bullock: Son helped me through 'Gravity'

At age 45, Sandra Bullock revealed in April 2010 that she'd adopted a baby boy, Louis Bardo, from New Orleans. Halle Be...

Review: 'Rush' hits potholes

Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Brühl in the poster for the film 'Rush." Film is based on real-life rivalry between Formul...

Bridget and Joan's Diary: Mad About The Toy Boy

Well, this is a new experience! Starting the New Year writing in a diary. (And not having a hangover – not for the want of trying, mind yo...

William Boyd tinkers with typecast Bond in new novel "Solo"

Author William Boyd poses for photographers with one of the first copies of his new James Bond book 'Solo,'...

'Foodimals' stalk animated film world of 'Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2'

(L-R) Andy Samberg, Anna Faris, Bill Hader and Terry Crews, voice talents from the new Sony Pictures Animation fil...

Sathnam Sanghera on five great British-Asian novels

I despise the term "British-Asian writer". It is almost as annoying and meaningless as "post-colonial". Frankly, I s...

Friday, September 27, 2013

William Boyd tinkers with typecast Bond in new novel "Solo"

Author William Boyd poses for photographers with one of the first copies of his new James Bond book 'Solo,'...