ANGELA ELLIOTT

'Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife,
 Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; 
Along the cool sequester'd vale of life
 They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.' Thomas Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Five minutes into the latest version of Far From the Madding Crowd came the realisation that Carey Mulligan, as Bathsheba Everdene, had changed her clothes four times already; starting out in a steampunk, leather riding jacket, and ending up in a d

Brooklyn, 1957, and fifty-four year-old Rudolf Abel lives in a boarding house on Hick Street and rents a studio on Fulton. He likes to paint and has become quite skilled, taking his canvas down to the waterfront to capture life as it happens – and no one would be any the wiser, save that Abel is a KGB spy and the US agencies have been watching him for quite some time. So begins the Spielberg directed film, Bridge of Spies. In many ways, it’s a classic cold war movie, the like

George’s life sucks pretty bad – he’s drunk and sleeping in the bath for God’s sake, and there’s this guy Art, who looks a lot like Steve Buscemi... wait, it is Buscemi… Okay, let’s start again. When George’s ex-girlfriend, Sheila, is evicted from her run down New York walk-up, George gets left behind and it falls to Art to move him on. So begins Time Out of Mind, a thought-provoking freefall of a film starring Richard Gere as George, the homeless drunk who doesn’t really hav

In my day job, the one that pays the bills and keeps a roof over my head, I work for a company that builds hospitals. Would that it were something more creative, but hey ho. Anyway, in my day job I get to meet lots of very industrious lawyers, consultants, engineers, architects, pharmaceutical people, equipment people, financiers etc... you get the picture. Last night I went to a conference at Pinsent Masons, one of the top legal companies in the Healthcare field. The topic w