Has there ever been a better sing-a-long band than The Pogues? Probably not, and you can bet there’ll be many a drink raised and many a sing-a-long sung tonight as the news that the band’s...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 9th October 2013
Content streaming is big business these days. But due to the tax-paid nature of the BBC, they can’t very well start something like Spotify for themselves. But what if they offered up a service that...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 9th October 2013
The DVD, which features the pilot episode for Marvel’s Avengers, Assembly Required, is out there. It came out this week and sees Iron Man, Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye, Black Widow and the newest recruit,...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 9th October 2013
The Walking Dead finally returns this week (Oct13) to AMC. With the network’s keynote show, Breaking Bad, having culminated in its fantastic finale not so long ago, TV lovers will welcome the return of Robert...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 9th October 2013
Studio pressure is one of the biggest movie killers out there. It can strip the creative power away from a director, making the final piece a pandering mess. But Alfonso Cuaron – whose film Gravity...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 9th October 2013
Tom Hanks, in his usual, emphatic way, was entertainingly nonchalant when he revealed he had type-2 diabetes to David Letterman on the host’s late night chat show."I went to the doctor and he said 'You...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 9th October 2013
Unfortunately, despite the hype, Beyond Two Souls hasn’t managed to successfully bridge the proverbial gap between video game and film. Many titles have attempting such a plug, with some getting closer than others - even...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 8th October 2013
Lance Armstrong’s story is an implausible, unbelievable, incredible, but none of those adjectives would be applicable if the following wasn’t: it’s true. In The Armstrong Lie, Gibney admits to rooting for the shamed cyclist, before...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 8th October 2013
How would you react if you saw someone thrust into a wall through another person just raising his or her hand, angrily? What would you say if a woman screamed and tables started moving away...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 8th October 2013
Music streaming service iTunes radio will be hitting English speaking countries, like the UK, Australia, in early 2014, Bloomberg report. If the reports are true, then Apple are making their move before their rival, Pandora.The...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 8th October 2013
As part of an initiative to encourage kids to both engage with and learn from cinema, Harrison Ford and Sir Ben Kingsley visited a London academy in West London.Ben Kingsley in Ender's GameThe kids that...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 8th October 2013
Oh, the humility. It’s like a posh uncle defending the indefensible. While the critics have essentially blasted Benedict Cumberbatch’s The Fifth Estate, which tells the story of Wikileaks and its founder, Julian Assange, David Cameron...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 8th October 2013
Ahead of November 11th’s ARTPOP release, Gaga has unveiled the artwork for the album on billboards and via a live stream of her website in New York’s Time Sq. As expected, she’s basically naked.The Artwork...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 8th October 2013
This weekend would have seen Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine open in around 30 cinemas in India, but the director has decided to withdraw him film due to the anti-smoking campaign that would have penetrated two...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 8th October 2013
It’s official – she announced it on the radio this morning – Ellie Goulding’s track, How Will I Love You, is the 2013 Children in Need single. The singer follows in the footsteps of pop...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 7th October 2013
It’s a good thing Machete and its stars don’t take themselves too seriously, because one look at the reviews would be enough to kick off a pretty serious binge. Still, the latest in the franchise...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 7th October 2013
Bryan Cranston’s fantastic career continues to take unexpected turns. From being the quirky dad in Malcolm in the Middle, to taking the TV world by storm with his portrayal of Walter White in Breaking Bad,...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 7th October 2013
Matt Smith will be flexing an entirely different set of acting muscles to that of his Doctor Who days when he takes on the character of Patrick Bateman in the musical version of American Psycho....
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 7th October 2013
Having enjoyed his experience with Trance, Danny Boyle is set to take on the heist genre once again as he agrees to helm a movie adaption of the documentary, Smash & Grab. Pathe and Fox...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 7th October 2013
As we foresaw – alongside a number of commentators – in our box office preview last Friday, Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity topped the box office on the second October weekend, posting record figures along the way....
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 7th October 2013
Well, it’s basically confirmed, because Samuel L. Jackson said it, and he’s Samuel L. Jackson. Elizabeth Olsen will be making her super hero movie bow with Avengers: Age Of Ultron when it comes out in...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 4th October 2013
Those Blue Macaws are back, and this time they’ve got parrot sprogs to account for. But the bustling streets of Rio isn’t a great place to bring up kids – all three of them, played...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 4th October 2013
The trailer for Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit has been released; the first film in the series to bear simply the name of the character that has sewn all previous released together. The film takes on...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 4th October 2013
Against all odds – odds that it would be thrown on the pile with all the other rubbish TV remakes – Sleepy Hollow has been a raging success.Katia Winters, Tom Mison, Nicole Beharie and Orlando...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 4th October 2013
Few films have generated as much buzz as Ridley Scott’s The Counselor. Despite having a few ‘off’ films, shall we say, the impressive cast and Cormac McCarthy’s name on the writing credit mean this taut...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 4th October 2013
Three films go head to head this weekend, all with reasonable claim to the top spot. But will the audiences go for a historical to learn about the demise of JFK; head for the stars...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 4th October 2013
It’s a big night for cinema goers in the U.S. Two of the biggest movies of the year are out (Oct 4th): Runner, Runner – Justin Timberlake and Ben Affleck’s crime thriller – and Gravity...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 4th October 2013
My, film premieres seem like the classiest of soirées don’t they? Stars dressed up to the nines, the paps snapping away, and reporters grabbing a scoop with their insightful questions. Well, ironically, that’s what it’s...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 4th October 2013
Not content with being the biggest retailer in the world, Amazon have a streaming service that will soon have three original comedies to its name: Mozart in the Jungle, The Outlaws and Transparent. The service’s...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 3rd October 2013
It’s pretty fair to say that Diana – the film – was an unmitigated disaster. It would actually be quite unfair to say anything else. But while the critics were bashing away at their keyboard,...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 3rd October 2013
On the same day that Glastonbury welcomed back Margate's adopted sons, The Libertines, Margate itself put on it's very own Leisure Festival as it...
Sheffield's very own all girl group Pretty Fierce are still on a high after the recent release of their debut single - 'Ready For Me'.
Three nights before the end of his current tour Will Varley returned to his home town of Deal to delight a sold out crowd in The Astor Theatre.
With only a few days to go before Portsmouth based songstress and producer WYSE releases her new single, 'Belladonna', we caught up with her to find...
Colorado raised, Glasgow educated and Manchester based Bay Bryan is nothing if not a multi-talented, multi-faceted artist performing as both...
Former Marigolds band member Keelan Cunningham has rediscovered his love of music with his new solo project Keelan X.
Wiltshire singer-songwriter Luke De Sciscio, formally known as Folk Boy, is set to release is latest album - 'The Banquet' via AntiFragile Music on...
Electronic music pioneer and producer Annie Elise says that the release of her first EP - 'Breathe In, Breathe Out' feels "both vulnerable and...
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