| Sat, 13 Mar 2010 Films out this week
| He's in the zone. Matt Damon in Green Zone Photograph: Jonathan Olley (15) | (Paul Greengrass, 2010, US/Fra/Spa/UK) Matt Damon, Brendan Gleeson, Greg Kinnear, Khalid Abdalla, Amy Ryan. 115 mins | Hoping to graft his shakycam Bourne aesthetic on to real-world politics,... | Live music this week
| MGMT. MGMT, London | With MGMT, it's proved to be a case of "careful what you wish for". Their great Time To Pretend single was a fantasy about their – as yet hypothetical – lives as rock stars. And then look what happened! Though their response should be that roc... | Dance picks of the week
| Disgo, by Darkin Ensemble. Darkin Ensemble: Disgo, Havant | The latest show from Fleur Darkin is inspired by the four million dancers who hit UK clubs every Friday and Saturday night. The phenomenon adds up to a lot of movement being spontaneously invented and perform... | Raw, dark memoir is 'Happy' in name only
| By any outward indication, Alex Lemon, a catcher on the Macalester College baseball team, was a typical college freshman: wide-eyed, free-spirited, often irresponsible, and consumed by a desire for booze and girls. It turns out, however, that his nickname -"Happy'' - ... | Stress: Alastair Campbell on how he keeps calm
| I operate, most of the time, under lower stress levels than I once did, but 24-hour calmness is beyond most people, let alone someone who is prone to depression, asthma, ulcerative colitis and obsessiveness. Tony Blair once said at a dinner hosted by Vladimir Putin th... | We need to talk about Lionel Shriver
| Lionel Shriver is angry. It doesn't help that her house is blockaded with unpacked boxes and she's given her lax internet provider such a verbal scorching it terrified her builders. She is fierce, this 5ft 3in hard-body with the unblinking gaze. Rage seems to fuel and... | Di Canio dismisses Italy's World Cup chances
| Dubai : Explosive, expressive, eccentric, talented, genius, controversial. Paolo Di Canio sewed each one of those traits on to his shirt for most of his 21 years as a professional footballer. | It's been a few years since he hung up his boots, but nothing much seems t... | Book Review
| Healing invisible wounds | Noor by Sorayya Khan | Reviewed by Tahir Rauf | "The people who say - those who go away will return - tell lies." | Waris Shah (Sufi Poet) | Noor is a beautifully crafted political novel by Pakistani-Dutch writer Sorayya Khan. Khan paints th... | Get Rid of Pit Bulls
| Pit Bull lovers righteously defend the “misunderstood” breed, but Charles Leerhsen, whose dog was recently attacked by one, says they are natural-born killers. | Do you know Wheaten Terriers? They have a reputation for sweetness, and, as the owner of a thr... | McLaren's romantic trials as a London scribe 'loosely' adapted for TV movie
Cassandra Szklarski, THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO - Yes, the romantic trials of a young Canadian newspaper columnist swept up by foppish London lads in the CBC-TV movie, "Abroad," are loosely based on the experiences of Globe and Mail writer Leah McLaren. | But that's all... | Alice in Wonderland (2010) review: Burton's eccentricities not enough
| Johnny Depp (left), Mia Masikowska (center), and Anne Hathaway (right) in Alice in Wonderland Associated Press/Examiner.com | Being the first highly anticipated film of 2010, and respectively the first non-rated-R film since President's Day (Percy Jackson), Walt D... | 5 buddy cop movies without the cops
| Buddy cops. You know the formula. Two normally incompatible law enforcement personalities are forced to work together. They’re initially resistant to new partner orders (usually from a shouting, zinger flinging superior) because they prefer to “work alone.... | 'I'm not as mad as I look! Don't be fooled by the kooky clothes,' says ...
| Queen of hearts: Helena Bonham Carter has starred in more than five films directer by her partner Tim Burton | Truthfully, it's not very often that you get to take a peek into the relationship of a Hollywood power couple. | But then, when you do, you think that maybe ... | |
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