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Fishbourne Roman Palace remains full of wonders five decades on
Having the largest set of stunning Roman mosaics in the country, there’s little wonder Fishbourne Roman Palace continues to enthral visitors five decades on from its initial excavation.
Petworth Players appeal for new members
PETWORTH Players on the look out for new members back stage or on stage for their next production Disney’s Beauty and the Beast in November.
FILM REVIEW: The Raid (18)
East meets West and kicks butt in a dazzling collaboration between Welsh-born writer-director Gareth Evans and Indonesia’s most daring fight choreographers and stunt performers.
FILM REVIEW: The Dictator (15)
Sacha Baron Cohen atones for the sins of Bruno with this gleefully bad taste fish-out-of-water comedy, which kicks sand in the eye of political correctness.
Celebrity artists support Joze Show in Kirdford
FORMER wife of Beatle George Harrison, Pattie Boyd, and Lady Cowdray will be among artists exhibiting at this year’s Joze Show in Kirdford, now one of the biggest art shows in the south.
FILM REVIEW: 2 Days in New York (15)
Cultural stereotypes provide cheap and easy laughs in Julie Delpy’s boisterous sequel to her 2007 amuse-bouche, 2 Days In Paris.
Cash injection for Chichester Festival Theatre announced
CHICHESTER’S Festival Theatre is to receive a funding boost from Arts Council England.
1 commentBuster’s still having the best fun...
Bad Manners frontman Buster Bloodvessel just hates it when you see a band going through the motions.
Tipping the balance Sir Michael’s way in Brighton
Sir Michael Tippett’s works have seen a little bit of a dip in interest since his death in 1998.
Nations meet making music in Brighton
The words are in Japanese; one composer Santa Ratniece is Latvian; the other composer Jamie McDermott is British.
Colour within the urban environment...
Artist David Batchelor leads a vibrant visual event at the HOUSE Festival 2012 across Brighton & Hove for the Brighton Festival (May 5-27).
Changing times at the Brighton Festival
Neil Bartlett celebrates changing times with his Brighton Festival retrospective recital What Can You Do?
Brett East offers adults the chance to tread the boards
MIDHURST-based former actor Brett East has launched a new venture alongside his Centre Stage Academy which was founded four years ago to encourage young acting talent.
REVIEW: Movin’ Melvin Brown at the Komedia, Brighton
EACH year, when I see the Brighton Festival programme for the first time, I feel a flurry of excitement.
FILM REVIEW: How I Spent My Summer Vacation (15)
Punch & Judy, donkey rides, sandcastles and candy floss are in disappointingly short supply in Adrian Grunberg’s grimy and darkly comic thriller.
FILM REVIEW: Dark Shadows (12A)
Quixotic director Tim Burton sealed his creative marriage to Johnny Depp more 20 years ago with the brilliantly dark and twisted fairytale Edward Scissorhands.
DVD review: Dream House (3 out of 5 stars)
WATCH it right through, and instantly – without giving the game away – there will be certain other films which come to mind, films which do a similar thing much more successfully.
Get set for MADhurst festival, in Midhurst
Midhurst’s nine-day summer festival of music, arts and drama will kick off this year with the sound of big brass band music specially commissioned for the occasion.
FILM REVIEW: Jeff, Who Lives at Home (150
Film-making brothers Jay and Mark Duplass, two key exponents of the low-budget mumblecore movement, err dangerously close to the mainstream with this quirky comedy of ill manners.
FILM REVIEW: Safe (15)
As the title of Boaz Yakin’s testosterone-fuelled game of cat and mouse intimates, we’re in familiar territory here with hard man Jason Statham.
FILM REVIEW: The Lucky One (12A)
Based on a book by Nicholas Sparks, who also penned The Notebook and Dear John, The Lucky One follows a similar template - hunky guy, beautiful girl, deathly spectre of war - to chronicle the efforts of a battle-hardened Marine (Zac Efron) to track down the divorced mom (Taylor Schilling), whose photograph literally saved his life behind enemy lines.
FILM REVIEW: American Pie: Reunion (15)
There is a moment in the fourth and hopefully final slice of the American Pie series when lovable Jim Levenstein (Jason Biggs) loses his patience with sex-obsessed man-child Stifler (Seann William Scott) and laments: “You’re so trapped in the past. When are you going to realise things will never be the way they used to be?”
FILM REVIEW: Beauty and the Beast 3D (U)
More than 20 years after Beauty And The Beast became the first animated feature to contest the Oscar for Best Picture, Disney’s “tale as old as time” returns to multiplexes in a glorious new 3D print.
Head along to Art in the Aisles in Birdham
More than 40 artists will have their work on display at the 15th annual Art in the Aisles event in Birdham.
Midhurst Museum retells the curse of Cowdray in new exhibition
MIDHURST museum is reliving the Tudor period throughout May – an era when the town was at the at the height of its fame.
REVIEW: Save the Last Dance For Me, Pavilion Theatre, Worthing
IT had been a day of glorious sunshine amid weeks of pouring rain and even as we stepped into the Pavilion Theatre on Monday night (April 30), the familiar feel of wetness was dropping from the sky again.
FILM: African Cats (U)
Sir Patrick Stewart narrates this nature documentary following the exploits of two families of big cats, who live and hunt side by side on the African savannah.
FILM: Damsels in Distress (12A)
It has been 14 years since writer-director Whit Stillman refracted his rose-tinted memories of infamous New York nightclub Studio 54 in the acclaimed drama The Last Days Of Disco.
FILM REVIEW: Avengers Assemble (12A)
More is less in Avengers Assemble, the special effects-laden amalgamation of four Marvel Comics franchises.
Missing but not forgotten – the tragic story of Bognor’s WW1 victim
Who knows what glittering career in showbiz may have awaited 20-year-old Bognor Regis lad Arthur Percy Bale?
REVIEW: Classic Heroes Concert, Worthing Symphony Orchestra
WAS Mozart among the first jazz composers?
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Wednesday 23 May 2012
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