At every great party, there is that inescapable moment when the music stops, the lights go up and all of the imperfections, which have been concealed so deliciously under a cloak of darkness, are suddenly thrown into sharp relief.

“AHOY there, me hearties!” was the chant that rang out at an Arundel school last week as plundering pirates invaded.

EXPERIENCES travelling the globe have helped to inspire a Rustington writer to pen a series of electronic books.

Picablo - Presented by Tam Teatromusica at The Old Market

The Brighton Festival Fringe annually prides itself on varied, unusual and sometimes controversial events. Last Saturday was no exception – a UK Premiere of a musical masterpiece that graphically describes the horrors perpetrated by the Nazis during WW2.

In the captain’s log from the 1960s TV series, James Tiberius Kirk brazenly split an infinitive as the crew of the Enterprise embarked on a five-year mission “to boldly go where no man has gone before”.

Adapted from the 2007 novel by Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a taut drama directed by Mira Nair about a conversation between a Pakistani professor and an American investigative journalist that might in fact be a battle of wits between a terrorist and a CIA operative.

Following strong performances in Killer Joe, Bernie, Magic Mike and The Paperboy, which garnered several awards, Matthew McConaughey’s renaissance continues with an eye-catching central turn in Jeff Nichols’s tender coming-of-age drama set in rural Arkansas.

Set largely during a blizzard along the Michigan-Canadian border, Deadfall sends a chill of disappointment down the spine.

And now for something completely different...

THEY’VE played in Germany, Belgium and France in recent years, but members of the Littlehampton Concert Band will be very much on home territory when they celebrate its 25th anniversary next week.

IF you thought a Leona Lewis concert would involve the pop powerhouse belting out song after song, then you would be right.

HELEN Seller is set to become the first woman president of Arundel Rotary Club.

FISHY goings-on in the sea off Littlehampton have left local anglers stunned after these two enormous turbots were reeled in.

Scott Moore and Jon Lucas, co-writers of the first chapter of The Hangover trilogy, make their directorial debut with a raucous and gleefully foul-mouthed comedy that attempts to replicate the boozy shenanigans of their earlier script.

Fred Schepisi directs this drama adapted by Judy Morris from Patrick White’s 1973 novel of the same name.

Forged in the same creative fire as StreetDance and its sequel, All Stars is a resolutely feel-good family comedy about a group of resourceful tykes who take matters into their own hands to stop bureaucrats from wrecking their local community.

Like so many European film-makers, Niels Arden Oplev has answered Hollywood’s siren song.

Oscar-winning writer-director Pedro Almodovar returns to broad comedy for the first time since Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown with this colourful and saucy confection set almost entirely on an airplane.

Written and directed by Adam Leon, Gimme The Loot is a low-budget drama which premiered in the prestigious Un Certain Regard section of the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.