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...The foursome are adept at bringing out the darkness in the broadside ballads and reels of Irish and British folk....
...The best gifts I’ve given recently are rods and reels to my kids, who are 11 and 13 years old, so that we can learn how to fish this summer....
...She reels off a cosmopolitan list of the places she shops when away from home. “In London, I’ll go to Neal’s Yard Dairy for my cheese and to Borough Market — because then I get a nice walk....
...ensemble piece with a stellar cast including both established McPherson alumni (Ciarán Hinds, Jim Norton, Ron Cook, Bronagh Gallagher, Stanley Townsend) and new arrivals with reputations of their own (Shirley...
...The evening lives through the superb playing of the Urban Strings, a scratch band assembled for the show from a handful of the most oddball of Europe’s baroque instrumental elite, as willing to dance a reel...
...The film is so gloriously acted and scripted, so skilfully fearless in its parlaying of an emotional ensemble drama into a last-reel kitsch catharsis – a dance contest, forsooth – that we fall over backwards...
...Additional reporting by Shirley Chen in Shanghai...
...Jim and Shirley Mayes have just arrived from Atlanta. “We’re just glad it [the oil spill] is all over,” says Mr Mayes, a truck driver....
...A span of mass-media pomp film-clips reels across a screen in the opening scenes, now standard in any contemporary opera production dealing with dictators, then we are in a big silver blow-up Zen garden...
...Shirley MacLaine, as Ferrell’s mother-in-law, plays to the gallery. Michael Caine as Kidman’s dad plays to the floorboards....
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