23 December 2013
Every year since 1957, the York Nativity play has been performed in the beautiful 12th-century church of St Mary the Virgin at Aldermaston, with each…
19 December 2013
Free Birds (PG)Running time 91 minutes Rating:***Not being a great lover of turkey (either alive or dead on a plate), any animated film about potential…
12 December 2013
Saving Mr Banks (PG)Running time 125 minutes Rating:****Anyone who can make creepy old Walt Disney look and sound good fully deserves an actor of the…
05 December 2013
Parkland (15)Running time 93 minutes Rating:*** The assassination of President John F Kennedy, in 1963, was one of those momentous events that everyone…
28 November 2013
The Counselor(12a)Running time 117 minutes Rating:*As soon as you see the bleak, bleached desert landscape of the Texas and Mexico borderlands, you get…
21 November 2013
Probably Newburys barn-storming, rootin' tootin' twangy banjoed night out of the year. Hilarious comedy hillbilly country rock band Hayseed Dixie are…
21 November 2013
Film Review: Gravity(12a)Running time 91 minutes Rating:*****Rather than waste time with unnecessary introductions and lead-ins, let’s say from the outset…
14 November 2013
Double BBC Folk Award nominee Heidi Talbot brings an evening of critically acclaimed songs to Arlington Arts, Snelsore, on Saturday.Her latest album,…
14 November 2013
Film Review: Philomena (12a)Running time 98 minutes Rating: ****The idea of joining Steve Coogan, known to so many of us as the character Alan Partridge,…
07 November 2013
It seems much too long till summer picnics and outdoor entertainments are back on our calendars, but the organisers of next year’s Boxford Masque are…
07 November 2013
Film reviewEnder’s Game(12a)Running time 114 minutes Rating: **Portraying your enemy as a faceless, inhuman being, radically different from yourself and…
05 November 2013
Fresh from the Edinburgh Festival, comic Stephen K Amos has hit the road with a new show which has been a smash hit success across Australia and New Zealand.…
01 November 2013
FORMER members of The Drifters - Maurice Cannon and Steve V King - front an evening of nostalgia at the Corn Exchange on Thursday, in Unforgettable –…
01 November 2013
Newburytoday.co.uk’s events for the week to come. Thursday Oct 31 Green Halloween, Discovery Centre, Thatcham, 11am to 4pm. Mr. Alexander's…
31 October 2013
THEY say everybody has at least one novel inside them, but for Gill Hornby it took two sackings, 20 years raising four children, and a visit to a beehive…
31 October 2013
Captain Phillips (12A)Running time 134 minutes Rating:****Modern day pirates – the kind that operate off the Horn of Africa – do not generally come with…
24 October 2013
The Fifth Estate (15)Running time 128 minutes Rating:*** The ever-shifting world of the Internet, with its modems, codes, passwords and other geekery,…
18 October 2013
Sunshine on Leith (PG) Running time 100 minutes Rating:***Jukebox musical based around 13 Proclaimers’ songs, is a simple story of romance and heartache…
18 October 2013
On Saturday, for the fourth year running, East Woodhay Silver Band return to St Nicolas’ Church for a charity concert.This year’s concert – on a theme…
16 October 2013
Great Scott! Victorian magicians Morgan & West bring a magical extravaganza to a millennium near you! No future is left unseen and no timeline left…
