Who says you have to stay in the slow lane simply because you drive a car adapted for disability? The UK's annual mobility and independent lifestyle event, the Mobility Roadshow, is calling on disabled drivers of adapted high performance, sports or classic cars to share their motoring passion and experiences with other disabled drivers - with a stunning feature line-up planned as a special attraction for 2009.

The Reader, based on the 1995 novel by German crime writer and judge Bernhard Schlink, has received a huge amount of pre-release hype, primarily centred on the casting of English Rose Kate Winslet as an illiterate former Nazi concentration camp guard who is nude for about 20% of her time on screen. But does it live up to the hype? Joyce Glasser decides.

Anyone who has lived through the austerity years of the 1940s will love this new exhibition at the Museum of Brands - which also has an uncanny relevance for today's current financial climate. Called "Waste Not Want Not", it revisits a Britain which had to economise on raw materials, save on energy and salvage scarce commodities. 

The National Gallery’s first exhibition dedicated to Pablo Picasso reveals how the greatest artist of the 20th century pitted himself against the great European painting tradition.

Twilight, based on the novel by Stephanie Meyer’s, would have parents locking up their daughters when it hits cinemas this week, were it not that their mothers are likely to be spotted in the queues. Insofar as women who go out with men from the wrong race, religion or social status can be condemned by association, the film, and its sequels, will resonate as a social commentary and a fantasy thriller. Review by Joyce Glasser.

This Christmas, Ramblers Cymru is urging people to wrap up warm, step outside and help them celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Ramblers’ Festival of Winter Walks, sponsored by Nature Valley.

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