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So you’re stuck in the dreaded ‘what the hell do I get people for Christmas’ state of flux. Well never fear, here are three films released on DVD and Video to fill cousin Bob’s stocking. The Back To The Future trilogy is released as a three disc box set, on 2nd December. The DVD includes 5 hours of »
When I was younger, when this film was released at the cinema, no matter how bad I thought a movie was (unless it was something along the lines of 'Dirty Dancing'…eurgh!) I would never condone censorship within the media or life in general. I also wore big wooden beads and only shopped at The Body Shop, so my
I am small. A child asleep, dreaming things that make my eyelids flicker underneath weight of my roaming eye balls.
In the dream, of course, a large white bird rest next to me, its beating large wings fold underneath its body and it winks at me. I take hold of some of its feathers and pull myself up high from t»
Danish sparkly indie-scapers Mew, who were recently featured on Channel Four’s Four music, release single and tour the UK in December… The single ‘She came Home For Christmas’ is a favourite of their live shows, and includes a promo video of the stunning distorted fairy tale visuals used in t»
VIOLENT FEMMES swing into town next month after celebrating 20 years of being non violent, non females (oh the irony). On the 18th July Slash Records/Rhino Entertainment re-released the bands debut, platinum selling, album, 'Violent Femmes', to mark its 20th birthday and to celebrate the albums rem»
Human Traffic:Remixed hits the shop shelves this month in the form of DVD and Video on the pretence that its been remixed, had bits added and made like, way cooler, man. Too be honest, unless you watch the original video release alongside this newer-with-bells-on version I doubt you’d notice too much diff»
"I let somebody get under my skin, long distance losing is all that I’ve seen." When you’ve fallen down and bashed your knee on the cold concrete of the outside world, you sometimes need to go home, sit on a comfy chair (if you have a cat you need to hear it purr and stroke its soft fur), and you ne»
The Shipping News
Directed by Lasse Holstrom.
Starring Kevin Spacey, Judi Dench, Marianne Moore and Cate Blanchett
Quoyle (Spacey) is a man, whose dull life takes a different turn when he gets noticed by a feisty young woman (Blanchett) who marries him, bares him a daughter and then»
[this review is late cus sean the editor thought he'd uploaded it, after much staff fighting. then didn't. for some reason. so here's sara's interpretation as we know you probably have it already...] "What if you held the world in your arms?" What if, indeed you he»
Talking ‘bout my g-g-g-generation Hmm….when you read a book you want to be hit between the eyes. You want your heart to race and feel your fingers itch to turn the page. Sometimes, if its really good you have to stop yourself from flipping to the back to see what’s going to happen cos you just can’t wait.»
Thudding guitars beat there way out of the speakers and Gemma Hayes’ voice follows closely behind, singing about disillusionment and the boredom of finding out that dreams aren’t always what they’re cracked up to be, when made into reality. This song makes me dance around the room, singing very loudly as I go. I’ve»
On a cold and blustery Monday morning, I find myself sitting in a hotel bar, opposite Gemma Hayes. I ask her a whole load of inane questions that she’s probably heard a hundred times before, and she kindly answers them by, pouring honey into the tape recorder sitting between us. ‘Stop the wheel’, a b-side on y»
Will is a self absorbed, shallow womaniser, who spends his days watching TV and sectioning his life into 30-minute units, while shamelessly believing that 'every man is an island'. Markus is a 12-year-old boy who hates school mainly because school hates him. He lives with his unhinged mother and is a vegetarian»
I don’t know if it’s because I look about twelve, but the woman on the door at 93 Feet East seems determined not to let me in, even before I explain that my name should be on the guest list. It’s definitely a ‘your name’s not down ,you’re not coming in' moment, when she can’t find my name(she doesn’t actually say it ou»
Staring Moritz Bleibtreu,Maren Eggert Running time 118 minutes Certificate 18 (Metrodome) Based on a project conducted in 1971, The Experiment is set in Germany and centres around a group of male volunteers, who are asked to spend two weeks in a mock up prison. The men are split into two groups, prisoners and»
Cruise stars in this Cameron Crowe remake of Alejandro Amenabar's 1997 film, 'Abre Los Ojos' ('Open Your Eyes').
Cruise plays David Aames, a rich play boy type, who refuses "to let happiness in without a full body search". That »
Scout Niblett open the evenings proceedings, to a hushed room.People stand clutching their beers,as a nagging head ache unfurls on stage. Perhaps the people at the front were having some kind of epic moment of clarity as the singer moves her way through a none-too-chipper tune,but we at the back lost interest a»
Vincent Gallo is the indie director who brought us the sublime film 'Buffalo '66' in which he starred, directed, wrote, filmed and scored. His new album 'When' works on the same principle, "if you want something done properly, do it yourself". The album was written, performed and produced by Gallo himself»
