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Dorset
Sunday, May 19, 2024
Oh gasp, gasp how could he say that?  Tell me its not true. A film about the planning and rescue of 338,226 men from Dunkirk over 9 days and Hollywood turns it into another lust fest in which many will attend to slobber at a film star or three...
Tony Parsons the man who went from credibility to Toryland. The weekly music magazine New Musical Express (NME) advertised for new writers in the summer of 1976, Parsons submitted a novel to the editor, Nick Logan, and was rewarded with a staff writer job. For the next three years he wrote about new...
I’m Wes Mantooth with a special newsflash. With a voice that can make a wolverine purr the legendary anchorman Ron Burgandy is back. 10 years after the release of the now cult classic Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy comes Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues. Set in the 1980s,...
Every syllable of this is the reality. Unnamed sources used to make stuff up and then to persecute those who campaign for a fairer... society. When the truth comes out it is too late and many of the public have got all frothed up about a lie. Douglas James PLEASE SUPPORT...
Studio, Lighthouse, Poole Wednesday 29 April – Saturday 2 May 8pm (Thurs, Sat matinees 2pm) Tickets £12 (Discounts: Students, U18s, Seniors, Groups, ATL) Tickets & information 0844 406 8666 Dorset-based Dramatic Productions present The Woman Who Cooked Her Husband at Lighthouse, Poole’s centre for the arts, for four nights from...
Based on a series of shorts from The Bullwinkle Show in USA in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Mr. Peabody and Sherman follows the titular duo, one a super-intelligent dog, Mr. Peabody (Ty Burrell) and one his adopted human child, Sherman (Max Charles). Mr. Peabody uses a machine...

I wandered lonely as a bee

With thanks to Mr Wordsworth: I wandered lonely as a bee That dips through meadows lush and still, When all at once - what’s this I see? - A host of gleaming fracking drills! The lake’s been pumped, the locals flushed. Trees shake and tremble in the dust. Relentless...
25 Dorset young carers have been taken to see War Horse at Southampton’s Mayflower as a reward for their hard work and for some down time from their often demanding responsibilities. There are currently 117 young carers in the county being supported by the Dorset Young Carers Service. Over the past year, the...
In the realm of music history, there exist bands that transcend the boundaries of genre and time. One such band is Japan, an enigmatic and pioneering group that formed in 1974 but emerged later in the 1970s and left an indelible mark on the world of art rock. Japan's...

Movie Review: Django Unchained

Recently I have grown tired of Tarantino. This is not to say I don't like his work, but I feel he has simply lost his way, Everything after Kill Bill Vol 2 Has been overlong, bloated and self indulgent. That's not to say he isn't a smart writer/director who...