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BRIAN VINER: Just in case you re already seeking respite from the ubiquitous World Cup coverage, let me start by apologising for a football analogy. ....
You may not have heard of her yet, but 13-year-old Alisha Weir looks set to soon become a household name - thanks to her starring role in the screen adaptation of Roald Dahl s Matilda The Musical. ....
BRIAN VINER: Last night s world premiere was also the curtain-raiser to this year s London Film Festival, and rarely has the LFF got off to such an exhilarating start. ....
Sentimentalists of the Victorian age believed it was impossible to read Little Nell's death scene in Dickens' "The Old Curiosity Shop" without crying. Within a decade or two, opinion had changed: "Lives there a man with a heart so unfeeling," asked Oscar Wilde, "that he can read Little Nell's death scene without laughing?" One of the problems with "Mr. Quilp," the musical based on Dickens' novel, is that it's all too possible to see it without either crying or laughing: It's been laundered. This is the latest, and by no means the worst, of the musicals being produced by Reader's Digest from what used to be called family classics, back when the family read (the family classics of the future will be Hogan's Heroes and Kojac.) We've already had Digest movies based on "Huckleberry Finn" and "Tom Sawyer," who lost a lot of their cheerful disreputability in the transition to the screen. Now the s ....