Maltese theatre grows up | Marco Galea
While we may not have a figure to match the late, great Francis Ebejer, local theatre historian Marco Galea tells us that we should be optimistic about the future of...
Film Review | Man of Steel
High hopes for Zack Snyder’s reinvention of the Superman mythos are dashed with this muddled and shallow wannabe epic.
Cinema admissions drop in 2011, but theatres manage surplus

In 2011, cinema admissions in Malta and Gozo numbered 780,763, a drop of 10 per...

In 2011, cinema admissions in Malta and Gozo numbered...

On the shadow trail… | Metamorpolis

The team behind a unique shadow puppet performance speak to us about what we can expect from 'Metamorpolis', playing at Splendid, Strait Street, Valletta on...

The team behind a unique shadow puppet performance speak to...

Island Books to relocate to Gozo due to ‘rampant development’

Liz Groves’s beloved and idiosyncratic second-hand book store will be moving...

Liz Groves’s beloved and idiosyncratic second-hand book...

An island dissected | Raphael Vella

We speak to artist and academic Raphael Vella about Shooting Society: Documenting Life in Malta, a new book of photographs and writings he co-edited with...

We speak to artist and academic Raphael Vella about...

Film Review | Hope Springs

It may have the best intentions and two fine central performances, but this elderly-rom-com fails to live up to its premise.

It may have the best intentions and two fine central...

[PHOTOS] European Film Awards 2012

Michael Haneke's Amour swept the key gongs at this year's European Film Awards, but the red carpet at the Mediterranean Conference Centre in Valletta last...

Michael Haneke's Amour swept the key gongs at this year's...

To know us is to know the English

The Maltese are a product of their colonial past and you find it in the social division that ‘Menglish’ and university education can still elicit.

The Maltese are a product of their colonial past and you...

[LIVE BLOG] European Film Awards 2012 | Amour sweeps top prizes | Bertolucci and Mirren honoured

Lights, camera, action! Follow minute-by-minute updates of the European Film Awards, live from the Mediterranean Conference Centre in Valletta.

Lights, camera, action! Follow minute-by-minute updates of...

After Stitching ban, self regulation comes officially into force

New law for self regulation of theatre productions comes into force one day...

New law for self regulation of theatre productions comes...

Film Awards statuettes make way to MCC

Braving the rain, 17 European Film Awards statuettes arrived to Malta from London this morning.

Braving the rain, 17 European Film Awards statuettes...

Update 2 | ‘Stitching’ producers to take case to European Court of Human Rights

Ban on controversial play written by Anthony Nielsen upheld by Appeals Court.

Ban on controversial play written by Anthony Nielsen upheld...

‘Festa Italiana’ at the Manoel Theatre

A festival of Neapolitan music will be taking place at the Manoel Theatre on...

A festival of Neapolitan music will be taking place at the...

Counting down to the EFAs | Amour

Ahead of the European Film Awards – taking place at the Mediterranean Conference Centre, Valletta on December 1 – we sift through some of this year’s top...

Ahead of the European Film Awards – taking place at the...

Counting down to the EFAs | Untouchable

Ahead of the European Film Awards – taking place at the Mediterranean Conference Centre, Valletta on December 1 – we sift through some of this year’s top...

Ahead of the European Film Awards – taking place at the...

Malta gets its own Baroque ensemble

Ahead of the much-anticipated Valletta International Baroque Festival – to take place in January 2012 – Malta will boast its own Baroque ensemble, which...

Ahead of the much-anticipated Valletta International...

Who’s the fairest of them all? | Naupaca Dance Factory

We speak to members of the Gozo-based Naupaca Dance Factory about their...

We speak to members of the Gozo-based Naupaca Dance Factory...

Film Review | Argo

It's hard to believe that this off-the-wall political hostage thriller is based on a true story, but Ben Affleck only succeeds in crafting an average flick out...

It's hard to believe that this off-the-wall political...

Larry Hagman, Dallas' JR Ewing, dies aged 81

Actor who found fame as the machiavellian Texan oilman in cult US soap dies in...

Actor who found fame as the machiavellian Texan oilman in...