After the holiday season, the movie world is slowly cranking up to speed. Although the really big news doesn't start until next week, with the announcement of the Oscar and Bafta nominations.This week's biggest nominee...
As always, we'll need to sift through a vast number of sequels and remakes to find something original next year. But here are a few things worth looking forward to. Of course, release dates are...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 24th December 2012
A range of intelligent blockbusters, inventive foreign films and beautifully crafted storytelling made 2012 a good year at the cinema...1. Life Of PiAng Lee's clever, thoughtful adaptation of Yann Martel's acclaimed novel is an unexpected...
Most of these movies feature actors, actresses and filmmakers who really should know better...1. SavagesThis heavy-handed drug-war thriller proves that Oliver Stone has lost the ability to tell a balanced story. And the all-star cast...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 24th December 2012
As the year winds down, critics are making lists and checking them twice to decide which filmmakers have been naughty or nice. Top 10s are appearing everywhere, along with awards and nominations and even some...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 21st December 2012
In New York, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Foxx, Samuel L. Jackson, Don Johnson and a bald-shaven Christoph Waltz attended the premiere of Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained, joking with the photographers as they posed for them. And...
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is in the news again, but maybe not for the right reasons.Rather than going into the acting, the pace or the film’s faithfulness to Tolkien’s original, critics tend to get...
While Zero Dark Thirty’s theatrical release isn’t for another week (December 19), critics seem to be tripping over their feet to praise the film. The drama, which centers around the search for Osama bin Laden,...
Tom Cruise has been a busy, busy man lately, with Jack Reacher due to be released this Christmas and two more films reportedly in the works, but fear not! Hollywood’s favorite action man is nothing,...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 11th December 2012
Pamela Anderson’s financial debt is catching up with her. The 42-year-old actress is estimated to owe about $1.1 million for various services. Most notably, the renovations of her home in Malibu have put her in...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 10th December 2012
Miley Cyrus continues to move away from her carefully-crafted Disney starlet image. Over the weekend, she went on stage at the Music Box in LA, alongside Borgore to perform their collaborative track, Decisions. During the...
Kevin Clash, most known for voicing Sesame Street’s iconic Elmo, has been accused of another instance of sexual abuse of a minor.This time the accuser, who has chosen to remain anonymous and is only quoted...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 10th December 2012
Demi Moore is on the market again, for anyone out there who’s been awaiting their chance.The 50-year-old actress has reportedly been “dumped” by her much younger boyfriend Vito Schnabel. Schnabel took the drastic step, because...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 10th December 2012
The two DJ’s, who pranked a nurse into revealing details about Kate Middleton’s condition have been sanctioned and Southern Cross Austereo, the company behind the offending radio show, has reported that it is taking comprehensive...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 10th December 2012
It’s official! Kristen Stewart will be starring in a new film and this time it will be for adults.Stewart is done with the teenage vampire drama genre and this seems to mark a new stage...
Jahmene Douglas may not have won the X Factor, but he seems to be set for a successful career anyway. The 22-year-old supermarket clerk from Swindon has apparently captured the hearts of judges and fans...
Toni Braxton was hospitalized in Los Angeles on Friday.The singer broke the news over Twitter, sounding remarkably casual about the ordeal. "Hey guys, I'm in the hospital for health issues related to Lupus & Blood...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 10th December 2012
Drama has erupted between Simon Cowell and Cheryl Cole after the singer’s sacking from the US X Factor.The former Girls Aloud singer was taken off the show in May, after filming just two audition episodes,...
Mystery shrouds rapper-turned-label-boss Rick Ross’s career plans, as the last of his tour dates across the US got cancelled last week.Two shows in North Carolina were cancelled last Thursday, followed by the rest of the...
Awards season kicked off in earnest this week with two major critical bodies - New York Critics and the National Board of Review - both naming the Osama bin Laden raid thriller Zero Dark Thirty...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 7th December 2012
A Royal Family: Regal congratulations are in order this week with news that the Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton is pregnant with her and Prince William's first child. With new succession laws set to be...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 5th December 2012
A specially painted Air New Zealand plane jetted around the world this week, collecting cast and crew to attend the world premiere of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey on Wednesday. Wellington was renamed "The Middle...
The big movie news this week was that Disney has signed Lawrence Kasdan to return to the franchise to write Star Wars Episode VIII. He cowrote both The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 23rd November 2012
Just two weeks since her original comedy 'Girls' won an Emmy, having been nominated for five (which is, in itself a fantastic accolade), Lena Denham has now signed a deal with Random House Publishing worth...
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News posted in on 18th September 2012
“Wussies and pussies.” That’s the term Bob Dylan used to describe his critics, specifically those who accused the veteran singer-songwriter of plagiarizing some of his song lyrics. In a new interview with Rolling Stone magazine,...
“All those evil mother******s can rot in hell.” Harsh words there from Bob Dylan; a message to his critics, both present and past and in particular, a reference to those that labelled him ‘Judas’ when...
The recession has hit Hollywood. Rather than spelling disaster for the movie industry, though, Brad Pitt has remarked that the tightening of purse strings could well be having a positive effect on Tinsletown’s creative output....
Britney Spears is certainly no stranger to a complex dance routine, though even the pop princess seemed a little confused by South Korean rapper Psy’s “invisible horse dance” on the Ellen Degeneres show this week....
NICKELBACK frontman CHAD KROEGER has dropped his appeal against his drink-driving conviction.The singer was sentenced to a one-year driving ban and a $600 (£400) fine after he was arrested in June 2006 in British Columbia,...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 9th February 2009
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...
Ahead of the imminent release of his second solo album - Dekker, aka Brookln Dekker, took time out to let us know about the musical project he...
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