Weekendin Singapore Feb '14 | Issue 11 | Page 80

ENTERTAINMENT ENTERTAINMENT onthePAGE NEXT CHANGE MOVIES TO WATCH OUT FOR IN FEBRUARY Sycamore Row by John Grisham Seth Hubbard is a wealthy man dying of lung cancer. He trusts no one. Before he hangs himself from a sycamore tree, Hubbard leaves a new, handwritten, will. It is an act that drags his adult children, his black maid, and Jake into a conflict as riveting and dramatic as the murder trial that made Brigance one of Ford County’s most notorious citizens, just three years earlier. The second will raise far more questions than it answers. Why would Hubbard leave nearly all of his fortune to his maid? Had chemotherapy and painkillers affected his ability to think clearly? And what does it all have to do with a piece of land once known as Sycamore Row? Nebraska | 6 Feb ‘14 Cast: Bruce Dern, Will Forte, June Squibb, Stacy Keach, Bob Odenkirk Director: Alexander Payne Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues | 20 Feb‘14 Cast: Will Ferrell, Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, Kristen Wiig, Christina Applegate Director: Adam McKay After receiving a sweepstakes letter in the mail, a cantankerous father thinks he’s struck it rich, and wrangles his son into taking a road trip to claim the fortune. Along the way, the two meet up with friends, relatives and acquaintances to whom the father owes money. Shot in black and white across four states, Nebraska tells the stories of family life in the heartland of America. With the 70’s behind him, San Diego’s top rated newsman, Ron Burgundy, returns to the news desk. Also back for more are Ron’s co-anchor and wife, Veronica Corningstone, weather man Brick Tamland, man on the street Brian Fantana and sports guy Champ Kind - All of whom won’t make it easy to stay classy... while taking the nation’s first 24-hour news channel by storm. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt Theo Decker, a thirteen-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don’t know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by his unbearable longing for his mother, he clings to one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the underworld of art. As an adult, Theo moves silkily between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty labyrinth of an antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love - and at the centre of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle. Dear Life by Alice Munro With her peerless ability to give us the essence of a life in often brie b'WB76