Despite its name and the posters featuring Matthew McConaughey in a space suit, Interstellar is a film that is as much about earth and humanity’s connection to it as it is about space. McConaughey is Cooper, an engineer and former NASA pilot who is now farming corn, the only crop able to grow on a…
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Film review: Gone Girl, starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike
Here’s a bold claim for you – Gone Girl is one of the two best film adaptations of a book I have ever seen. The other is The Godfather. That’s how good I think David Fincher’s film of Gillian Flynn’s hit novel is. Partially, that’s because Flynn herself wrote the screenplay, which remains as taut,…
2014 wishlist – to read and to see
A new year, a new set of books, television programmes and more to look forward to. Here are a few of things I want to read and see in the next 12 months.BooksThis is far from a comprehensive list of the books I want to read – for fear of going overboard I’ve kept it…
Film review: Parkland starring Zac Efron, Marcia Gay Harden and Billy Bob Thornton
Nearly everyone knows the story of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination – Jackie wore pink, Lee Harvey Oswald shot JFK from a ‘grassy knoll’, conspiracy theories abound.But as the 50th anniversary of JFK’s death approaches (November 22) Parkland takes a different look at that day in Texas in 1963. Named after Parkland Memorial Hospital in…
Sarah Shaffi 