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Kazuo Ishiguro's new book features an american woman who claims to be a virtuoso on the cello. She befriends a young Hungarian cellist earning his living playing in cafes, and every day she tutors him, earnestly and intensely. 'You have it,' she tells him. 'Most definitely. You have ... potential.' As the days turn into weeks, he wonders why she does not appear to own a cello herself, and eventually, as summer draws to a close, he discovers why. She cannot actually play the instrument at all. So convinced was she of her own musical genius, no teacher ever seemed equal to it, and so rather than tarnish her gift with imperfection, she chose never to realise it at all. 'At least I haven't damaged what I was born with,' she says.Bathetic self-deception, and unfulfilled dreams - a lament to passing time, and life not working out quite as one had hoped - have been the defining themes of almost all Ishiguro's work. They are, on the face of it, puzzling preoccupations for one of Britain's most

Some directors shout, others mumble; Paolo Sorrentino prefers to crack sly jokes out of the side of his mouth. His intelligent films are not the diffident, low-fi things of some Brooklyn hipster, but are lush and fun. Il Divo, his latest movie, about the Italian politician Giulio Andreotti, begins with a series of murders archly set to some brash pop, with captions rolling out of blinds and swinging from car doors. So far, so Scorsese. Yet Sorrentino's method is far more elliptical. His films proceed by insinuation and montage and scenes of beautiful bewilderment, so viewers have to work it out for themselves. His signature camera move is not the more straightforwardly dramatic zoom but the tracking shot, where the camera glides up to and past the subject in a long sideways glance. Formidable characters have a ridiculous side, so that the otherwise monstrous loan shark in The Family Friend lives with his mamma and has to change her bedpan ('Micro o macro?' he asks: number ones or twos?

Kenichi Matsuyama as L in Death Note, the movie from VIZ Pictures. Death Note is a live-action Japanese supernatural suspense movie based on the shonen manga series by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, starring Tatsuya Fujiwara and Kenichi Matsuyama.

'The contrast between the vitality of the stage and the inert theatrical afterlife haunts the V&A's big scale galleries that cover live performance in Britain over the last 350 years. They replace the old Theatre Museum in London's West End, which controversially closed in 2007, and despite the obvious curatorial care, you wonder if this museum of live performance isn't an oxymoron.'...

GI Joe: Resolute is a series of ten webisodes now ready for viewing on the Adult Swim site. They are meant to be a bridge of sorts between the iconic 1980s cartoon series and the live action film to premier this summer.Source: Mark WhittingtonPublished: Apr 26, 2009

A very weak list of limited releases this week. Of the six films, three are documentaries, four are earning poor to terrible reviews, and the other two have two reviews, combined. None really have a shot at expanding wide. The Canadian documentary Act of God is likely the best bet in terms of quality, but 90% of the people reading this live in the wrong country to see it.

Home Theater is a big part of the home entertainment scene in countless living rooms. However, one problem that plagues home theater, especially for many spouses, is all the speaker wires and connection cables. As a result, there is an increasing number of products, such as loudspeakers, touting "wireless" installation. However, what does "wireless home theater" really mean and are wireless home theater products ready for prime time? Find out in my article: What is Wireless Home Theater?

Beyonce's new film 'Obsessed' soared to No. 1 this weekend with $28.5 million in ticket sales, studio estimates showed. The thriller stars Beyonce as the wife of a successful asset manager (Idris Elba) whose co-worker (Ali Larter) develops an unhealthy obsession and begins to stalk him, turning their lives upside down. In second place was Zac Efron's '17 Again,' which brought in $11.7 million over the weekend after debuting at No. 1 last week. The movie stars Efron as the teenage version of Mike O'Donnell, a thirty something husband and father played by Matthew Perry.

Elie Wiesel: Born in then-Transylvania (in 1928). Author of Night plus 40-odd volumes of memoirs, novels, essays and histories. Boston University Andrew W. Mellon Professor. Madoff target. Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1986). Witness. Survivor. Spokesperson. Legend. The man who first called that catastrophic (in)human conflagration by the name we now take for granted, Holocaust. Destined to live forever in the Book of Eternity. But, now?

Being gay in America may have its challenges, but at least american gays don't live in constant fear of 100 strokes