Arts and Entertainment

Pineapple Palace, in Lower Way, is holding a Christmas Market this weekend, with quality art, craft and vintage stalls full of festive gifts and treats.Mulled…

Green oak furniture designer/maker Marnie Moyle has opened a town centre pop-up shop at Saddlers Court, off The Broadway, where she is selling off samples…

Aladdin opens tomorrow (Friday) at the Corn Exchange - and it promises to be an action-packed spectacle, full of mischief and mayhem. Written and directed…

The Imitation Game (12a)Running time 114 minutesRating: *****Possibly the best British picture of the year so far – The Imitation Game – is sadly about…

A local author recently published her first book telling the story of her three-yearjourney with her husband in building their own Aldworth home.Mandy…

THE Crazy World of Arthur Brown returns to Arlington Arts Centre in Newbury tonight (Friday).The original God of Hellfire is still an incendiary act,…

Interstellar (12a)Running time 148 minutesRating:****One of the great traditions of sci-fi ‘end-of-the-world’ films is that Humanity somehow manages to…

Mr Turner (12a)Running time 150 minutesRating:*****Making a biopic of the complex, tumultuous and deeply unsympathetic life of Joseph Mallord William…

Fury (15)Running time 117 minutesRating:****Ever since Saving Private Ryan, film buffs have preferred their war films to be grim, realistic and bloody,…

The Best of Me (12a)Running time 117 minutesRating:** Going back to the town of your childhood, 20 years after you grassed your family up to the…

The Corn Exchange officially opened the doors to 101, their new outdoor arts creation space, on Thursday, to a fanfare of fireworks, fine food, live music…

Don’t miss Tall Stories’ hit musical stage adaptation of the award winning picture book The Gruffalo, by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, at the Corn…

The Maze Runner (12a)Running time 113 minutesRating:***Ever found yourself trapped in a place that looks and sounds strange, is not very friendly and…

The Watermill’s artistic and director Hedda Beeby scooped the UK Theatre’s Theatre Manager of The Year Award at a glamorous ceremony at London’s Guildhall,…

AS well-known as the events of the English Civil War and the execution of Charles I are, the terrible retribution suffered by the ‘regicides’ after the…

Dracula Untold (15)Running time 92 minutesRating:*** About once a decade, the dark and loathsome figure of that legendary bloodsucker Dracula rises…

Chances are, if you turn off the A4 into Lower Way and ask for Pineapple Palace, you’ll attract a few looks. Because, although you’d be just yards away,…

What We Did on Our Holiday (12a)Running time 95 minutesRating:***When English people go to Scotland – which thanks to a recent vote, they can continue…

SOUTHERN Sinfonia celebrate their 25th year with a classical concert at St Nicolas’ Church, Newbury, on Friday, October 31, conducted by their patron,…

Magic in the Moonlight (12a)Running time 97 minsReview rating **** It must be a great comfort to older people to watch someone such as Woody Allen…