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Western Telegraph
4 days ago
- Business
- Western Telegraph
Haverfordwest salon owner to celebrate one year anniversary
Alys Morris opened Alys & Co in June 2024 after working for over ten years as a hair stylist. Since opening the salon in St Thomas Green, Haverfordwest, Alys has introduced new beauty services and has taken on two apprentices. Alys Morris (seated in the middle), opened Alys & Co in June 2024. (Image: File photo) Alys said: 'Things have been absolutely amazing. My one-year anniversary since taking over the shop is coming up and we are really busy. My family are so proud of me. They are proud of what I have achieved. 'But I work hard for it. I work seven days a week. You get out what you put in. It's hard work but it's all paying off. It's so much better being your own boss. You can choose when you work, it's more flexible and the money is better. Plus, all the ideas are in my hands. 'I absolutely never imagined I would be so successful when I first opened my business. I think part of it is that we offer a bit of everything so our clients can get everything done at our salon. 'We are now offering new services at the shop like nail treatments which is done by a new lady at the shop and tanning services with our bespoke sun bed, which was custom made. But at the same time, we are still offering hairdressing services.' For her one-year anniversary, Alys plans to do a giveaway and raffle at her salon. She continued: 'We also use social media like Facebook and Instagram to make sure we are up to date with everything while posting reels of our services. 'Now I'm just trying to take on more people and I would like to open up another property in the future, possibly further from Pembrokeshire.' Alys accredits some of her success to staying open outside of normal office hours. 'It also helps that I am open in the late evenings. Monday is my busiest day because a lot of other salons are closed then. 'In addition, all the girls who work here have a lot of experience. My beautician has worked on cruise ships in the past, one stylist has 34 years' experience, and another was previously in a successful partnership in a salon. Everyone has had good training.'
The Guardian
12-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
In the Lost Lands review – not much to find in pointless science-fantasy
This Europudding production plods unrewardingly through the murky and humourless terrain of science-fantasy; it is a movie of flabby characterisation, dull storytelling and midprice VFX work. German screenwriter Constantine Werner has adapted a story from fantasy author George RR Martin and the resulting dialogue lands like a series of sandbags on a concrete floor; director Paul WS Anderson handles the material with stolid determination. The setting is some postapocalyptic futureworld where humanity's remnants gather in an urban hellhole, while outside in the 'lost lands' chaos reigns. Anderson's partner Milla Jovovich bring a persistent blandness to the part of Gray Alys, a witch who, by defying the theocratic tyranny, has come to symbolise a growing resistance; she is being menaced by hatchet-faced, crop-haired witchfinder Ash (Arly Jover). It is Alys's vocational custom never to refuse a request accompanied by payment, and so when haughty young princess Melange (Amara Okereke) asks her for the power to shapeshift, Alys agrees, knowing that there is a shapeshifter in the 'lost lands' whose powers she can steal. But Melange's courtier-slash-lover Jerais (Simon Lööf) approaches her secretly and begs her not to confer this dangerous skill on Melange – and Alys accepts that request as well, though the question of how she is to reconcile these opposing missions does not lead to any very interesting tension. To guide her through the lost lands, Alys befriends a tough hunter called Boyce (Dave Bautista), and Bautista does at least give us a kind of quizzical bemusement in the role, which is no more or less preposterous than anything else. As they battle their way through the hostile landscape, Alys and Boyce become close, though one is keeping secrets from the other. The film's pure pointlessness reaches its climax with a non-epic moment in which a train plunges off the edge of a cliff, and the audience is apparently being asked to gasp at how spectacular that is – a tough ask, given that it is, of course, effectively happening on a laptop. In the Lost Lands is in UK and Irish cinemas from 14 March.
New York Times
06-03-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
‘In the Lost Lands' Review: A Postapocalyptic Romance
The dystopian action movie 'In the Lost Lands,' based on a short story by George R.R. Martin, is a threadbare film that barely resembles an idea. Dave Bautista plays Boyce, a taciturn body hunter hired by a sorceress named Gray Alys (Milla Jovovich) to pursue a shape-shifter for their kingdom's young queen (Amara Okereke). Boyce and Alys are pursued by a zealous soldier known as Ash (Arly Jover), a leader of a religious royal guard dressed like Knights Templar intent on killing Alys. This lackluster script struggles to build a captivating story to match the allure of its expansive desert setting. Instead, Boyce's tragic origins are kept hidden by the director Paul W.S. Anderson in order to spring a hokey third-act twist. Another issue is that Alys seems to exist solely as Boyce's lovesick romantic interest. Neither Bautista nor Jovovich can cobble together anything resembling chemistry, and this isn't helped by Bautista consistently overacting. After making the equally garish 'Monster Hunter' in 2020, somehow 'In the Lost Lands' is Anderson's least imaginative film. Though Anderson and his trusted cinematographer Glen MacPherson remain capable of framing and lighting engrossing shots, the cheap effects used for the film's many firefights and explosions look like a flurry of pixels. The editing attempts to hide these shortcomings, cutting around the action to the point of being incomprehensible. And maybe that's for the best. In the Lost LandsRated R for violence and being an eye sore. Running time: 1 hour 40 minutes. In theaters.
