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Kevin Costner Enjoyed Trying Something New In Criminal

Kevin Costner Enjoyed Trying Something New In Criminal

He was baffled when director Ariel Vromen (The Iceman) approached him about playing the part. "I don't know why they cast me. I kept looking in the mirror, questioning, 'Why me?' I'm a cowboy, I...

News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 15th April 2016

Barbershop: The Next Cut Nicki Minaj

Barbershop: The Next Cut Nicki Minaj

Nicki Minaj is back on-screen in Barbershop: The Next Cut, the third in the comedy franchise starring Ice Cube and Cedric the Entertainer."We wanted a new face in the barbershop," says Ice Cube, who also...

News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 15th April 2016

Chris Hemsworth Loved The Female Energy Of The Huntsman

Chris Hemsworth Loved The Female Energy Of The Huntsman

Chris Hemsworth may have the title role, but The Huntsman: Winter's War centres on feisty divas played by Charlize Theron, Emily Blunt and Jessica Chastain. "It's a prequel," Hemsworth explains. "It's the backstory my character...

News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 15th April 2016

Melissa Mccarthy Expanded A Favourite Alter-Ego With The Boss

Melissa Mccarthy Expanded A Favourite Alter-Ego With The Boss

This is a character McCarthy has been living with for some 15 years, having created her as part of her stand-up improv routine when she was with The Groundlings. "For me, my favourite character that...

News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 15th April 2016

Demolition Was A New Challenge For Jake Gyllenhaal

Demolition Was A New Challenge For Jake Gyllenhaal

Jake Gyllenhaal looked forward to working with costar Naomi Watts and director Jean-Marc Vallee (Dallas Buyers Club), mainly because the filmmaker is notable for encouraging his cast members to improvise. But Gyllenaal says he was...

News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 15th April 2016

Criminal

Criminal

Almost criminally entertaining, this preposterous thriller mixes buckets of humour and emotion into the violent, twisty action. And Kevin Costner gets his best role in years, a remarkably complex character who's unpredictable and thoroughly engaging....

Movie Review posted on 15th April 2016

The Jungle Book

The Jungle Book

Using remarkably photorealistic animation, this remake of the 1967 Disney classic is warm and enjoyable, with a few moments of suspense for the kids in the audience. Loosely based on Rudyard Kipling's stories, it's a...

Movie Review posted on 15th April 2016

Eye in the Sky

Eye in the Sky

Almost forensic in its approach, this smart thriller explores a drone strike from a variety of perspectives that bring the moral dilemmas sharply into focus. This includes textured performances from seriously gifted actors who add...

Movie Review posted on 15th April 2016

Midnight Special

Midnight Special

Gifted director Jeff Nichols takes on another genre in his fourth film with actor Michael Shannon, after Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter and Mud. This one's an involving character-based sci-fi adventure made in the style of...

Movie Review posted on 8th April 2016

Boulevard

Boulevard

This dark, introspective drama hinges on one of Robin Williams' final film performances before his death in 2014. And it's one of his most unusual roles too, a sensitive depiction of a man grappling with...

Movie Review posted on 8th April 2016

The Huntsman: Winter's War

The Huntsman: Winter's War

Aside from success at the box office, there was nothing about 2012's rather uneven fantasy Snow White and the Huntsman that screamed out for a sequel. And indeed, this prequel/sequel hybrid doesn't quite make sense,...

Movie Review posted on 8th April 2016

Eddie The Eagle Tapped Into Hugh Jackman's Inner Underdog

Eddie The Eagle Tapped Into Hugh Jackman's Inner Underdog

Designed as a crowd-pleaser, the film has an infectious energy that wins over the audience because it never takes itself seriously. Costar Hugh Jackman, who plays Eddie's coach Bronson, says that this tone is called...

News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 1st April 2016

Everybody Wants Some Connects With Other Richard Linklater Films

Everybody Wants Some Connects With Other Richard Linklater Films

Everybody Wants Some follows a group of friends navigating their way through their first weekend of independent university life in the 1980s. But the film is also a sort of follow-up to Boyhood, picking up...

News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 1st April 2016

Miles Ahead Was A Lifelong Project For Don Cheadle

Miles Ahead Was A Lifelong Project For Don Cheadle

But Cheadle went further, also directing and cowriting Miles Ahead. "From a very young age I was into Miles Davis' music," he says. "His was the music that I grew up listening to, that my...

News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 1st April 2016

Black Mountain Poets

Black Mountain Poets

It's fairly obvious that the cast and crew began making this film with only the thinnest outline of a plot and characters, because the story feels like it was made up as they went along....

Movie Review posted on 1st April 2016

Victoria

Victoria

One of the most breathtaking films of the year, this ambitious story shifts from a slacker romance to a heist thriller without skipping a beat. Indeed, it's shot in a single unbroken take on the...

Movie Review posted on 1st April 2016

Eddie the Eagle

Eddie the Eagle

Based on the true story of an unapologetic underdog who never won anything, this British comedy is a shameless crowd-pleaser. Eddie Edwards won the hearts of fans worldwide by coming in dead last at the...

Movie Review posted on 31st March 2016

Nia Vardalos Speaks For Women In My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2

Nia Vardalos Speaks For Women In My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2

She uses her own wedding as an example: "My husband is an only child of only child parents," she says. "So on my side we had 250 or 300 people, and his side he had...

News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 24th March 2016

Affleck And Cavill Drew On The Psychology Of Batman V Superman

Affleck And Cavill Drew On The Psychology Of Batman V Superman

After starring in the 2006 critical bomb Daredevil, Ben Affleck declared, "I've inoculated myself from ever playing another superhero!" But here he is back in a costume as the Dark Knight for Batman v Superman:...

News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 24th March 2016

Tom Hiddleston Rose To The Challenge Of I Saw The Light

Tom Hiddleston Rose To The Challenge Of I Saw The Light

His hit TV series The Night Manager is just coming to its conclusion in Britain (it airs in America in April), his satirical thriller High-Rise just opened in the UK, and now his Hank Williams...

News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 24th March 2016

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

After 2013's beefy Man of Steel, director Zack Snyder goes even bigger and darker with this sequel, cross-pollenating Clark Kent's story with flashbacks to the origins of Bruce Wayne and his Dark Knight alter-ego. The...

Movie Review posted on 24th March 2016

Zootopia [aka Zootropolis]

Zootopia [aka Zootropolis]

The filmmakers behind Tangled and Wreck-it Ralph join forces for this entertaining animated action comedy, which has clearly been planned as a franchise-launcher. Energetic and funny, the movie is packed with wonderfully engaging characters and...

Movie Review posted on 24th March 2016

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2

It's been 14 years since Nia Vardalos' warm comedy about her raucous extended family became the sleeper hit of the 2002, and now she's back with more of the same silliness. It all feels rather...

Movie Review posted on 24th March 2016

Michael Shannon Was Moved By Midnight Special

Michael Shannon Was Moved By Midnight Special

Midnight Special is the fifth movie he has made with filmmaker Jeff Nichols. Having appeared in all of Nichols' movies, Shannon feels like he's a brother. "We have a kind of rapport that just materialises...

News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 18th March 2016

Tom Hiddleston Felt Faint Preparing For High-Rise

Tom Hiddleston Felt Faint Preparing For High-Rise

Tom Hiddleston leads the ensemble cast of Ben Wheatley's new thriller High-Rise, based on the J.G. Ballard novel. And it's Ballard's bleak world view that drew him to the project."What Ballard is interested in is...

News posted in Music / Festivals on 18th March 2016

The Program Pushed Ben Foster To The Limit

The Program Pushed Ben Foster To The Limit

Foster transformed his entire physique to play Lance Armstrong in Stephen Frears' new biopic The Program. And Foster admits that he didn't know much about the cyclist beforehand. "I knew he was the greatest at...

News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 18th March 2016

10 Cloverfield Lane

10 Cloverfield Lane

Rather than a sequel or spin-off, this is a spiritual successor to 2008's Cloverfield, a terrifically tense thriller that builds a genuine sense of horror. Director Dan Trachtenberg deploys a range of Hitchcock-style tricks to...

Movie Review posted on 17th March 2016

The Divergent Series: Allegiant

The Divergent Series: Allegiant

After the more thrilling Insurgent, this saga reverts to the talky style of the original Divergent movie, constantly explaining this post-apocalyptic world's convoluted mythology before indulging in whizzy action that has little to do with...

Movie Review posted on 17th March 2016

High-Rise

High-Rise

After a string of award-winning arthouse hits like Kill List and A Field in England, director Ben Wheatley and writer Amy Jump stumble with this adaptation of the 1970s J.G. Ballard novel. The satirical dystopian...

Movie Review posted on 17th March 2016

Shailene Woodley Likes The Depth Of Allegiant

Shailene Woodley Likes The Depth Of Allegiant

Especially as the movie expands on the post-apocalyptic world by sending Tris, her boyfriend Four (Theo James) and their friends beyond Chicago to the futuristic home of the Bureau of Genetic Welfare, run by the...

News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 11th March 2016

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Leisure Festival - Dreamland in Margate

Leisure Festival - Dreamland in Margate

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...

Pretty Fierce talk to us about collaborating with Doja Cat, emetophobia, arena tours and staying

Pretty Fierce talk to us about collaborating with Doja Cat, emetophobia, arena tours and staying "true to yourself" [EXCLUSIVE]

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'.

Will Varley & Jack Valero - The Astor Theatre Deal Live Review

Will Varley & Jack Valero - The Astor Theatre Deal Live Review

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.

WYSE talks to us about her

WYSE talks to us about her "form of synaesthesia", collaborating with Radiohead's Thom York and the prospect of touring with a band [EXCLUSIVE]

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...

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Bay Bryan talks to us about being a

Bay Bryan talks to us about being a "wee queer ginger", singing with Laura Marling and being inspired by Matilda [EXCLUSIVE]

Colorado raised, Glasgow educated and Manchester based Bay Bryan is nothing if not a multi-talented, multi-faceted artist performing as both...

Keelan X talks to us about staying true to

Keelan X talks to us about staying true to "your creative vision", collaborating with Giorgio Moroder and being "a yoga nut" [EXCLUSIVE]

Former Marigolds band member Keelan Cunningham has rediscovered his love of music with his new solo project Keelan X.

Luke De-Sciscio talks to us about having the courage to be yourself, forgiving that which is outside of one's control and following whims [EXCLUSIVE]

Luke De-Sciscio talks to us about having the courage to be yourself, forgiving that which is outside of one's control and following whims [EXCLUSIVE]

Wiltshire singer-songwriter Luke De Sciscio, formally known as Folk Boy, is set to release is latest album - 'The Banquet' via AntiFragile Music on...

Annie Elise talks to us about the challenges a female producer has to face and

Annie Elise talks to us about the challenges a female producer has to face and "going through a year of grief and sickness" [EXCLUSIVE]

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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