Happy St Andrews Day

St Andrews’s Day on Friday (Scottish Gaelic La Naomh Anndrais), Celebrat4es Scotland’s patron saint. According to Christianity’s teachings St Andrew, was a fisherman and one of Jesus Christ’s apostles who was born in Bethsaida, in Galilee, now part of Israel. Like Jesus, Andrew died a martyr after being killed by the Romans and was crucified…

“Widows” – dark, devious, corrupt, nasty enchanting

Viola Davis takes the reins as the star of this sadistic, sarcastic and slightly overblown melodrama about crooks in trouble. Her sidekick and lover/husband, played by the ever dynamic Liam Neeson is a devious and mesmerizing conman who she finds hugely difficult to handle emotionally – all will be revealed when you see the film!…

Not so much a spider’s web as a huge heavy industrial net

Stars Claire Foy, Sverrir Gudnason, Keith Stanfield. Stieg Larrson’s now familiar storylines, this one created together with David Lagercrantz, creates a melancholic saga with violence, angst, moody broody people and generally dark sinners who all have a woman on their case – Lisbeth Salander. Already known to Journalist Mikael Blomkuist, Lisbeth is subject of and…

Unilever trumps Nestle to buy GSK’s Horlicks unit

GlaxoSmithKline has entered into exclusive final negotiations to sell its Indian nutrition business to Unilever ending several months of auction process for the£3.28bn ( $4bn) unit that includes the prized India’s Horlicks malted drink brand. The Anglo-Dutch consumer company beat a rival bid from Swiss food and beverage group Nestle which was eyeing up to…

Stars in her eyes

Montreal born Canadian actress Emmanuelle Chriqui first appeared in a McDonald’s commercial when she was 10, and known for her performance on HBO’s Entourage as Sloan McQuewick, as well as Dalia, Adam Sandlers’s love interest character in You Don’t Mess with the Zohan. Her acting career began with parts in television series after which she…

InSight landing on Mars

A new robot the InSight probe of Nasa the US space agency has landed on Mars after a dramatic seven-minute plunge to the surface of the Red planet. The probe aims to study the world’s deep interior and the confirmation of touchdown came through on cue at 19:53 GMT. Nasa’s mission control at California’s Jet…