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NewsReviews
Film Review: Johnny English Reborn**
My son loved it enough to see it twice in a week. One of his friends thought it was the funniest film he had ever seen. It seems to have been a real hit with twelve-year-old boys, and I guess you cannot underestimate a good visual joke at the start involving male genitals. This amounts to Rowan Atkinson (English), in a Tibetan monastery coming to terms with past misdemeanours, making lots of silly facial expressions as he drags around an unfeasibly large boulder tied between his legs (you can imagine). “Watch this, it is so funny,” my son said with genuine enthusiasm. I was less impressed... Read on
Film review: One Day**
I really did enjoy the book. It was light and humourous. The two main characters, Emma and Dexter, get together (sort of) on graduation day, July 15, 1988, in Edinburgh. And each chapter of the book tells their story on the same day every year for the next 20 years. Everything about the post student years in London, the late 1980s through the 1990s, and on into the early Naughties resonates with readers of a certain generation. The cultural reference points and the characters were equally familiar, to me at least. And I did laugh out loud quite a lot... Read on
Restaurant review: Colosseum Restaurant, Paphos
I confess that the job of restaurant reviewer is intrinsically flawed as restaurants, like people, will have good and bad days, which means the process is ultimately only of limited use. There’s always the risk of rogue elements such as staff shortages, sickness, power failures combined with kitchen problems not forgetting plain bad luck. All or even one of these can dramatically effect even the most reputable of places, so today’s triumph can easily turn into disaster tomorrow. ... Read on
Bar review: Vino Cultura, Nicosia
With a relaxing ambience that would soothe anyone’s nerves after a hard day’s work, Vino Cultura, close to downtown Nicosia, has managed to create a full yet inexpensive wine selection accompanied by great, affordable tapas.Vino Cultura draws its strength from having the ability to attract a variety of people from the age of 25 upwards. The fact that it was full on a week night by 8pm is testimony to the venue’s popularity... Read on
FILM REVIEW: BLITZ **
An evening with Jason Statham. He gets up off the sofa, pours himself a glass of Scotch and looks out the window. Grabbing a handy bat, he opens the door and goes out into the street, where a gang of youths are up to no good. The miscreants tell him to buzz off, and offer to carve their initials in his face. Bad idea. Jason explains that the bat he’s wielding is used in hurling, a sport that’s “a cross between hockey and murder”, meanwhile illustrating the point by breaking their ribs, cracking their skulls and rearranging their faces. Finally he goes home – presumably to pour himself another Scotch – leaving the bloodied hoodies writhing and groaning on the pavement. To quote that anonymous Victorian: “How unlike the home life of our own dear Queen... Read on
Restaurant Review: India India, Nicosia
Why do the minor towns of Cyprus have a better selection of ethnic restaurants than the capital? After all, we are more intelligent, better educated, smarter dressed, drive more expensive cars and have better looking wives. Travel anywhere along our benighted coastal strips and the waft of the orient will overwhelm you, but not here, well not too often. Of course when I refer to ethnicity, I don’t mean Italian or South African, whose nationals will open a new establishment every five minutes anywhere on earth, but something slightly more mysterious, like Yma Sumac... Read on
Bar review: The Only Bar and Café, Oroklini, Larnaca
If you walk down the main street of Oroklini you’ll see a cozy little place wedged between a house on one side and a side street on the other, The Only Bar and Café.Oroklini has grown over the last few years and The Only Bar and Café seems as good a representation of the new town as anything. The place itself is quite modern but tidy wooden interior details add a touch of homeliness to the overall experience. As you enter you will face an immediate choice of indoor or outdoor seating with around 100 seats in total plus plenty of standing space in and around the bar... Read on
Canon 1D X: The New Most Epic DSLR Ever
There are a lot of reasons the 1D X might be the most ridiculous DSLR ever made, but the numbers seem like a good place to start. A full-frame 18-megapixel sensor with the biggest pixels ever in a Canon DSLR. ISO 204,800. 12fps RAW shooting. 61-point autofocus. Three DIGIC image processors. One gigabit ethernet port.There's a lot here, so I hope you're sitting somewhere comfortable... 2 comments
Film review: FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS *
Bad comedies come in assorted flavours. The Change-Up [see opposite page] is bad, but it’s targeting the so-called frat-boy audience, college meatheads whose main hobbies are getting drunk and throwing up (in that order). Friends With Benefits is also bad but it’s aiming at a whole other niche, misfit Gleeks (i.e. people who love Glee), fashion victims, metrosexuals and wannabe bohemians. ... Read on
