Movie Gazette

Reviews Featuring Dave Hill

The Full Monty
Touching and funny British film featuring wonderful characters and a unique story. Not to be missed.

The Draughtsman's Contract
Peter Greenaway's first feature film is arguably his best - in a seventeenth century English country garden, history and artful speculation are grafted in a murder mystery plot to yield strange, fertile fruits for the imagination, which will delight with their tart acerbity.

News Items For Dave Hill

Island 'helps smoker kick habit'
A businessman leaves a remote Scottish island he inhabited for almost a month in order to kick a 30-a-day smoking habit.

'Castaway' hopes to quit smoking
A businessman who has smoked 30-a-day for decades is to maroon himself on a remote island in an effort to quit the habit.

Organisers happy with Open crowds
Open officials are content with crowd numbers at Turnberry despite making £3m less than at last year's event at Royal Birkdale.

European election candidates: South East
Full list of candidates standing in the election for the European parliament in the 12 UK government regions.

Assessing mayor Johnson's first year
How has Boris Johnson done in his first year as London's mayor? BBC London's Political Correspondent Tim Donovan looks back at an eventful year.