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Restaurant review: The Round Up Pub, Limassol

By Stephanie Robb 10/04/13
With summer just around the corner and everyone looking for an affordable dining option, the choice of pub food seems ideal. Where else could you spend your night watching football, drinking ice-cold beer and eating decent food? After being tempted in with the aforementioned values, the Round Up pub scores well on all fronts. It encapsulates all you expect in your “pub-food” options, both the positives and the negatives. The positives first, as they do outweigh the negatives. The décor in the restaurant has American resonances of a typical Saloon setting. ... Read on

Café Bar review: Ayios Neophytos, Paphos

By Bejay Browne 10/04/13
A magnificent location, a tranquil atmosphere and value for money - this daytime café has it all. Set about 600m above sea level and with a cool breeze, this destination is one of my favourite spots in Paphos.Ayios Neophytos monastery is beautiful and nestles in the hills high above Paphos with panoramic views down to the coast. It’s an excellent place to visit, not only for tourists but locals as well. Steeped in tradition, the location is a perfect place to contemplate life, step back into nature and really relax.Situated about 10km north of Paphos and close to Tala village, this is a great place to come for a morning or afternoon out, or just to pay a visit to the café... Read on

Film review: Jack the Giant Slayer***

By Preston Wilder 03/04/13
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Film review: Hitchcock **

By Preston Wilder 03/04/13
 Why did Anthony Hopkins not win an Oscar nomination for Hitchcock? Playing a dead celeb is by far the surest route to awards glory (even a semi-dead celeb will do, with apologies to Margaret Thatcher), but Hopkins was totally ignored in the year-end plaudits. Not that he deserved an Oscar, at least in my opinion; this superficial take on Alfred Hitchcock isn’t much of a performance. I just wonder why... 1 comment

Bar review: Cashaca Café Bar & Lounge, Nicosia

By Peter Stevenson 03/04/13
With people reeling from the current financial situation, restaurants and bars are trying to draw customers in and try to make them forget about the horrors of deposit levies and austerity measures. It would also appear that these places have chosen Thursday nights as the prime night to attempt to draw people in and I was pleased to discover that Cashaca café bar & lounge also had a deal for free Italian tapas on Thursday nights... Read on

Film review: The Last Stand *

By Preston Wilder 26/03/13
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Film review: Monsieur Lazhar***

By Preston Wilder 26/03/13
 Sometimes reactions are visceral. I was going to write about Identity Thief, one of last week’s new releases at the multiplex, but ended up having such an angry reaction to that film – not just irritation but violent anger, at its view of the world and its reprehensible heroine – that I just want to pretend it never happened. I wasn’t necessarily going to write about Monsieur Lazhar: it’s in French with Greek subtitles, only showing in Nicosia and only showing for a few days (it’s at the Friends of the Cinema) – yet just thinking about its final shot gives me goosebumps and makes me want to cry, so how can I ignore it?... Read on

Restaurant Review: Akakiko, Nicosia

By Alexander McCowan 26/03/13
Where has Makarios Avenue gone? At one time the centre of all social and ‘cultural’ activity in the capital, now a dust strewn tumbleweed derelict; how those renting property must be suffering. Poor souls.So what does a smart operator do when he witnesses his otherwise prosperous enterprise mired by association with the sight and sound of broken windows and empty tills? He moves. For weeks I have passed a sign on the fringes of the Hilton Park garden informing the public that Akakiko, formerly of Makarios Ave and the premier flag-bearer of Japanese cuisine, would open shortly and open it did, on Wednesday... Read on

Bar review: Dylan’s Bar, Larnaca

By Andreas Vou 26/03/13
 The Larnaca bar-scene is no longer as one-dimensional as it once was; a new culture has emerged with an interest in a wide variety of genres and styles, and the town is acting accordingly to gratify these new trends. While rock bars such as Savino and Stone Age have been around for decades in Larnaca’s famous old quarter of the Laiki Yitonia, the emergence of Dylan’s Bar offers something unique to the town’s newfound diverse culture... Read on

Film review: Oz the Great and Powerful***

By Preston Wilder 20/03/13
 No film needs to be 130 minutes long, least of all a fantasy aimed at kids (albeit slightly scary for the very youngest kids), but at least Oz the Great and Powerful comes by it honestly. This is a kind of prequel to The Wizard of Oz, looking not at Dorothy but the world she discovered ‘somewhere over the rainbow’, and how it got to be that way. It’s old-fashioned, with some unabashedly pretty images, a Lothario hero beset by troublesome women, and a storybook rhythm that never gets too hyper (hence that 130-minute running time). I enjoyed it a lot... 6 comments
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