Results tagged “Review”

KRUGER
Chicken Caesar salad, £3.50
1/5

IN A NUTSHELL
A huge disappointment from the usually solid stable of Kruger. Gristle and surly service aplenty

May 11 will be a red letter day in the life of HSBC as new chief executive sets out his strategy for the future of the bank.

Uppermost in the minds of HSBC's Canary Wharf workforce - where the strategy will be outlined - is be the impact on the retail arm of the bank.

BOOK
Live Your Dreams: Ten Secrets to Loving Your Life
Geoff Thompson
Summersdale
£7.99

IN A NUTSHELL
Self-improvement guru and award-winning screenwriter Geoff Thompson aims to encourage you to take control of your fears.

CD
Tomorrow Morning, Eels
E Works, £8.99
4/5

IN A NUTSHELL
You know what you're getting with Eels and if that is what you like, the Tomorrow Morning is not going to disappoint.

BOOK
Audrey Niffenegger, Her Fearful Symmetry
Vintage, £7.99
3/5

IN A NUTSHELL
If you were hoping for weepy romance akin to Time Traveller's Wife, then think again, Niffenegger has a much more sinister story to tell with her new book.

BOOK
The Love Verb, Jane Green
£16.99, Penguin
4/5

IN A NUTSHELL
Don't judge this book by its cover. There is a deeply breaking tale buried beneath the shallow sleeve.

Drama
Precious, 15
Gabourey Sidibe, Mo'nique, Mariah Carey, Lenny Kravitz, £10.99
4/5

IN A NUTSHELL
Moving tale of triumph over adversity, based on a true story and without the Hollywood frosting.

CD
Katie Melua, The House
Dramatico, £8.99
4/5

IN A NUTSHELL
Call off the search, William Orbit has found Melua a respectable new sound.

CD
Under Great White Northern Lights, The White Stripes
Beggars Banquet, £16.99
4/5

IN A NUTSHELL
Get on the tour bus with The White Stripes and hear them make some noise.

It's been another exciting sporting year and plenty of big names have appeared in the pages of The Wharf, including West Ham manager Gianfranco Zola, a quartet of England cricket captains and two heroes of the 1966 World Cup win.

We look back at what's been making the headlines locally and nationally over the last 12 months.

POP
Sunny Side Up, Paulo Nutini
3/5

IN A NUTSHELL
Sunny Side Up reveals Nutini has more depth and gravel than Blunt or Morrison, but possibly not the spark required to fully escape their orbit yet.

Russell Brand: Scandalous
The O2 arena
3/5

"Russell Brand goes for the jugular and the undergarment with the same sense of glint-eyed, orgiastic devilment."

The Boat That Rocked (15)
Director: Richard Curtis
2/5

"This is Curtis's hymn to the pirate radio days, when the BBC stuck its fingers in its ears and went la, la, la, to drown out the explosion of British rock."

Grace/Wastelands
Peter Doherty

3/5

"Doherty walks the tightrope between wistfulness and self-pity, and the storied musician tumbles off more than once."

Oz And James Drink To Britain
Oz Clarke and James May
Pavilion Books, £19.99
1/5

"It is the confused offspring of Dorling Kindersley and a teenager's be-doodled chemistry work book."

London Belongs To Me
Norman Collins

Penguin, £10.99
4/5

"People criss-cross without pattern or purpose, briefly rising above the hubbub to say something of no great significance."

Blue Man Group. They’re blue, they’re men and… er… they’re a group. That’s more or less as much as I knew before I turned up at The O2 for their sell-out first night. Oh yes, I’d also seen them banging objects together in an advert once – then again, I saw creatures banging stuff together at the beginning of 2001: A Space Odyssey and look how weird that turned out.

CD: Factory Records - Communications 78-92

Game: Lord Of The Rings: Conquest

AS anyone with a passing knowledge of sleuthing will remember, Dr Watson is the learned sidekick of Sherlock Holmes, known for his pin-up looks and romantic trysts with models and actresses.

Wait. What?

IT'S time to begin the scramble for tickets to this year’s BFI London Film Festival.