Nov 19 2007
UTILISING the same sophisticated motion capture technology as The Polar Express, Robert Zemeckis’s computer animated re-imagining of the oldest surviving poem in the English language boasts dazzling fight sequences, lusty serving wenches and mythic creatures.sheds his clothes to fight the man-eating Grendel, or Angelina Jolie’s sylphlike form emerges naked and dripping wet to seduce the brawny hero....
Nov 19 2007
Since its publication in 2003, Brick Lane by Monica Ali has inspired adulation and condemnation with equal fervour.Prize for political writing, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and The Guardian Fiction Prize....