Entertainment tips

0, the movie that your Hollywood masters demand you spend your money on, starring the always rottenly melodramatic Tom Hanks and (surprise, surprise) timed to tie-in with TV’s current ‘Survivor’ and ‘Temptation Island’ fake, voyeuristic crap. Desert Isles have never been so popular. Tom Hanks gets fat, gets skinny, and overacts with a semi-deflated volleyball, the latter deserving the Oscar that’s surely destined for terrible Tom.

Unbreakble sat + sun. + wed. 22:00, thurs. + fri. + mon. + tues. 21.30; If you liked the Sixth Sense, you’ll positively jump for joy after this one while simultaneously muttering, ‘Boy, makes you think, don’t it?’ A simiiarly spooky, spirtual, quintessentially American let’s-pretend-our-material-world-ain’t-so-material movie. Bruce Willis stars, and Samuel Jackson sports the wig he was supposed to wear in Shaft, but obviously confused his movies. Apparently, after seeing this movie, a number of Americans threw themselves under trains to see if they too were unbreakable. Hope not

Filmhuis Lumen

Billy Elliot, tues to wed. 19:30: a poor boy from a grim industrial town somewhere in England dreams of being either (A) a butcher (B) an alcoholic (c)a bus driver or (d) a ballet dancer. You figure out which one it is that’s got the women crying in the aisles.

Music

Speakers (015-2124446):

Tune-Up Alternative, thurs. 15 feb. 23:00; Kaz Lux, live music, fri. 21:00; Beatsclub: Eighties Dance Night, fri 23:00; Julian Sas, live muziek, sat. 21:00; Experience Speakers, sat. 23:00; Salsa Sunday, sun. 20:00; Videolab: Man On The Moon, tues. 21:00; Comedy Night, with Donnel Rawlins , wed. 21:00; Tune-Up Special: Maffia Party, thurs. 22 feb. 23:00.

Koornbeurs (015-2124742):

Triangle, fri. 23:00; Underground, sat. 22:00; Boonaparte, cabaret by Marcel Boon, tues. 21:00.

Theater

Theater De Veste (015-2121312):

Irish Folk music, by Shantalla, fri. 20:15;

Exhibitions

Het Prinsenhof :

De Aert of the family van de Goes van Naters, until Feb. 25; Panorama of Delft, paintings and drawings by Aart Houtman.

Van Gogh Museum :

Paulus Potterstraat 7, Amsterdam

Tel: 020-570 52 00

Light! The Industrial Age, 1750-1900, 20 Oct. to Feb. 11, 2001.

Haags Gemeentemuseum :

Stadhouderslaan 41, Den Haag

Tel: 070-33 81 111, www.gemeentemuseum.nl

All over the place: fashion and traditional dress, until march 18, 2001; Auke de Vries: Costume design for the Friesan army, until november 12;

Techniek Museum :

Hub van Doorne, inventor and entrepreneur: The father of DAF, until april 30.

Movies

Delfia :

Cast Away, thurs to wed. 18:30 and 21:30, sat. + sun. + wed. also 15.00, the movie that your Hollywood masters demand you spend your money on, starring the always rottenly melodramatic Tom Hanks and (surprise, surprise) timed to tie-in with TV’s current ‘Survivor’ and ‘Temptation Island’ fake, voyeuristic crap. Desert Isles have never been so popular. Tom Hanks gets fat, gets skinny, and overacts with a semi-deflated volleyball, the latter deserving the Oscar that’s surely destined for terrible Tom.