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Cinema

Fierce Creatures (PG, selected cinemas) In Love and War (15, selected cinemas) Circle of friends Mark Steyn T here was a moment when I wished I liked Fierce Creatures more. It......

Hughie O'donoghue (born Manchester 1953) Paints On A...

scale. Pas- sionately elemental images of landscape and the figure dominate, resonantly personal (`Being Here III', 1996, above). Moody, expressive, lushly but exactly painted,......