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It's 'Baader' Good

ON THE RUN: revisiting Germany's Red Army Faction in The Baader Meinhoff Complex

3:17pm Friday 14th November 2008

THE BAADER MEINHOFF COMPLEX (18) Drama. Moritz Bleibtreu, Martina Gedek, Johanna Wokalek.

Selfish secret shared...THE BLACK BOY, HEADINGTON, OXFORD

It's rather charming

3:24pm Friday 14th November 2008

GILES SHELDRICK wants to keep all the delights of this city gastro pub to himself.

No Gain With Payne

PAYNE-FUL: Mark Wahlberg gets all moody and meaningful to no avail

3:10pm Friday 14th November 2008

MAX PAYNE (15) Action/Thriller. Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Beau Bridges, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Amaury Nolasco, Olga Kurylenko, Donal Logue, Marianthi Evans The titular, gun-toting hero in voiceover at the beginning of John Moore's tiresome video game-to-movie adaptation growls: “I don’t believe in heaven. I believe in pain, I believe in fear, I believe in death."

The Porn Supremacy

OOO ER...: Seth Rogan and Elizabeth Banks go all 'porno'

3:05pm Friday 14th November 2008

ZACH AND MIRI MAKE A PORNO (18) Comedy/Romance. Seth Rogen, Elizabeth Banks, Jason Mewes, Traci Lords, Ricky Mabe, Craig Robinson, Katie Morgan, Jeff Anderson, Brandon Routh, Justin Long Almost 20 years ago, Rob Reiner's seminal romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally posed the age-old question: can men and women truly be friends without sex getting in the way?

Ladies In The Limelight

Little Ms Sultry - Kate O'Mara in 'An Ideal Husband' at the Oxford Playhouse

2:54pm Friday 14th November 2008

Film, TV and theatre favourites Kate O’Mara and Carol Royle are known to millions – Kate for Dynasty, Dr Who and Absolutely Fabulous, and Carol for Doctors, Heartbeat and Crossroads. And from next week, both these well-known actresses come face-to-face at the Oxford Playhouse. KATHERINE MACALISTER talks to both about fame and that rare thing - An Ideal Husband...

In Their Prime

The boys are back in town - era defining Primal Scream

2:40pm Friday 14th November 2008

Over the course of a staggering 26 years Primal Scream have established themselves as a dynamic ever-moving force for change.

Brave Words

Doug Beattie MC's 'An Ordinary Soldier' makes for a gripping read

2:24pm Friday 14th November 2008

After 10 days in the searing heat of Helmand desert in Afghanistan, talking to soldiers for ITV News, journalist Philip Gomm was ready to come home.

Bog standard

2:09pm Friday 14th November 2008

The air smelled like a warm lion. Countless flies hovered in the space around my head, occasionally flying into my eyeballs and once actually into my mouth.

Feeling paranoid in Snowdonia

Snowdonia is beautiful - when it's sunny

5:23pm Wednesday 12th November 2008

September 1 came around and I could do little else but spend the day casting a scathingly critical eye back over the past year — it was, after all, exactly 365 days since my graduation ceremony. Had I achieved anything spectacular? Changed the world? Or even just travelled it?

Oarsome Grub

11:38am Friday 7th November 2008

Restaurants open and close with more regularity than Primark's tills, but bustling away in the background are Oxford's stalwarts, which work hard to stay on top – they’re the Madonnas of the hospitality industry.



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