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Interview: Diary Of A Bad Lad’s Jon Williams

Interview: Diary Of A Bad Lad’s Jon Williams

Diary Of A Bad Lad is a no holds barred, unflinching look at the British underground crime scene told through the eyes of a cinephile documentarian who finds him self in too deep with the  subjects of his latest project. Having a limited five day release on the dailymotion.com website last year, Diary Of A Bad Lad [...]

January 25 2010 | Posted in Entertainment News, Interviews | Read More »

Interview with Arthur Cauty – director of wrestling documentary Hard Knocks

Interview with Arthur Cauty – director of wrestling documentary Hard Knocks

There is a famous quote in Woody Allen’s Hannah and Her Sisters in which Max Von Sydow’s character Frederick ponders aloud:
“You see the whole culture. Nazis, deodorant salesmen, wrestlers, beauty contests, a talk show. Can you imagine the level of a mind that watches wrestling?”
   To Frederick it is baffling anyone would waste their time [...]

December 15 2009 | Posted in Entertainment News, Interviews | Read More »

Bunny and the Bull review

Bunny and the Bull review

 
The Mighty Boosh is the epitome of a polarising comedy. Those who loves the series are insatiable for the adventures of Howard Moon, Vince Noir and the eccentric supporting cast that includes a tiny shaman and a talking gorilla. The camp who avoid the show are those left cold by the idea of a wild [...]

December 15 2009 | Posted in Entertainment News, Movie Reviews | Read More »

Alan Partridge comes to America

Alan Partridge comes to America

 

Radio Norfolk’s favourite presenter, Alan Partridge, is finally moving out of his Travel Lodge hotel room to relocate to the States. Steve Coogan, whilst talking to Empire, revealed that his much loved comic creation will make the move across the pond for a big screen feature due to be written next year. Despite Coogan have [...]

December 13 2009 | Posted in Entertainment News | Read More »

Weekend international awards round up

Weekend international awards round up

   In a busy pre-Christmas period, this weekend saw a series of ceremonies celebrating the film industry take place all over the world.
   In the United Kingdom, Duncan Jones was the big winner at the British Independent Film Awards. David Bowie’s son, the erstwhile Zowie Bowie, picked up prizes including Best Debut Director and Best [...]

December 7 2009 | Posted in Entertainment News | Read More »

Harry Brown Review

Harry Brown Review

After a long and distinguished career, Michael Caine has announced his retirement from lead film roles aiming to instead focus on supporting parts. Having burst on to the film scene with the likes of Get Carter and Zulu, the erstwhile Mr Micklewhite has been an enduring screen personality in fare ranging from Jaws: The Revenge [...]

November 30 2009 | Posted in Entertainment News, Movie Reviews | Read More »

Review: Pirate Radio

Review: Pirate Radio

Just a few days back Robert Carlyle used the Scottish BAFTAs as a platform to voice his displeasure of the British film industry. There have been no decent films produced here, he said, since Trainspotting.
Studying Carlyle’s words, he has a point; the cinematic output of Great Britain primarily regurtiates the same type of film over [...]

November 12 2009 | Posted in Movie Reviews | Read More »

Carlyle slams British Film Industry

Carlyle slams British Film Industry

The iconic, cool black and white stills of Renton, Sick Boy and Begbie that adorned the posters of student bedrooms up and down the United Kingdom in 1996 seemed to signal the beginnings of a new era for British cinema. Highly-stylized, slick, vibrant, vital, Danny Boyle’s adaptation of Irving Welsh’s Trainspotting, a tome chronicling the [...]

November 9 2009 | Posted in Entertainment News | Read More »

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