ALSO OUT THIS WEEKEND September 30, 2010 FILM MADE IN DAGENHAM Whimsical comedy drama about women who went on strike in the 1960s. TAKERS Hayden Christensen stars in this so so crime caper. BACK TO THE FUTURE The greatest oedipal time-travelling film ever made. DVD AMERICAN: THE BILL HICKS STORY Documentary about the late comedian. BAD LIEUTENANT – PORT OF CALL NEW [...]
ALSO OUT THIS WEEK November 11, 2010 FILM SKYLINE Sci fi gubbins of the alien-invasion kind. A lack of press screenings isn’t a good sign. YOU AGAIN Family drama with Sigourney Weaver and Jamie Lee Curtis. MY AFTERNOONS WITH MARGUERITE Sickly sweet French drama with Gerard Depardieu. DVD DOWNTON ABBEY SERIES 1 Swift turnaround on ITV’s just-finished period piece. A CHRISTMAS CAROL [...]
All cosied up? Time to drink yourself warmer November 29, 2010 THE next best thing to snuggling up in a woolly jumper or – if you’re a City A.M. reader, perhaps a Burberry snood – is a warming tipple. We’ve carefully combed the options to find the best ones near you. CITY Five hot cocktails are on offer at the Folly and the Anthologist near Bank, [...]
All cosied up? Time to drink yourself warmer November 29, 2010 THE next best thing to snuggling up in a woolly jumper or – if you’re a City A.M. reader, perhaps a Burberry snood – is a warming tipple. We’ve carefully combed the options to find the best ones near you. CITY Five hot cocktails are on offer at the Folly and the Anthologist near Bank, [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING October 18, 2010 FINANCIAL TIMES CANDOVER POISED TO PULL PLUG ON THEME PARK Candover, the private equity group, is on the brink of ditching plans to sell or float Parques Reunidos, the Spanish theme park operator, after offers from rival buy-out groups came in below its €2bn ($2.8bn) price tag. Apollo Management and a consortium of Advent International [...]
ALSO OUT THIS WEEK November 5, 2010 FILM DUE DATE Underwhelming comedy road movie with Robert Downey Jr and Zach Gallifinakis. JACKASS 3D The latest round of dumb stunts and potty humour from Johnny Knoxville et al. MAMMOTH Emotional drama with Gael Garcia Bernal and Michelle Williams. DVD THE PACIFIC Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks’s epic TV series about World War II. [...]
No cure for cancer and no jetpacks: the twenty-first century is a bust October 24, 2010 BUSINESS FEATURES EDITOR PULLING a dollar from his wallet, Peter Thiel, the 43-year old co-founder of PayPal and an early investor in Facebook, flaps it to make his point: “Giving people freedom with money is really something deep and fundamental. Government may still have a monopoly on printing these notes, but so long as you [...]
No cure for cancer and no jetpacks: the twenty-first century is a bust October 24, 2010 BUSINESS FEATURES EDITOR PULLING a dollar from his wallet, Peter Thiel, the 43-year old co-founder of PayPal and an early investor in Facebook, flaps it to make his point: “Giving people freedom with money is really something deep and fundamental. Government may still have a monopoly on printing these notes, but so long as you [...]
LSE tech expert to help lure HFT November 16, 2010 THE London Stock Exchange, which is losing market share to low-cost rivals, has hired a technology specialist to attract business from controversial high-frequency trading (HFT) firms. The LSE is keen to attract more flow from HFTs in a bid to claw back business lost to rivals such as Chi-X Europe and Bats Europe, that have [...]
Harrison unlikely to lose £1m purse and he may fight again November 15, 2010 AUDLEY HARRISON’S camp are confident the Olympic gold medallist will retain his £1m purse from Saturday’s defeat against David Haye, despite the British Boxing Board of Control stating they might withhold the money. Harrison (right) landed with just one punch before Haye stopped him in the third round of their WBA heavyweight title fight in [...]