Backpacking is basically the combination of camping and hiking, but even if you are a professional camper, there things you need to consider before you get your RV in gear and hit the trail to go backpacking. Get Fit Before You Go Backpacking Many novice backpackers whine about their aching back […]

Translating Cheryl Strayed’s 2013 sort-of memoir Wild: From lost To Found On The Pacific West Trail to the screen must have been a daunting task for everybody involved; it really isn’t a text that seems like fertile ground for cinematic reinvention, it’s not crying out to be displayed on the […]

Note: I was sorting through my computer while snowbound this weekend and found a few of these great interviews that I just never got around to editing and publishing. So here they are after some quick editing. If you’ve ever been to Las Vegas, you know what evils that wonderful […]

At some point in history, we’ll call them the pre-GOOP days, Gwyneth Paltrow was widely considered a pretty good egg. She had a series of critically and commercially successful films to her name, some of which have lasted the test of time and are still talked about with reverence today. […]

Sometimes complicated, sometimes confusing, Roy Keane is no quiet man. To sports journalists he is a guaranteed headline. His latest tirade, aimed directly at the media that seem to feed on his outbursts, has once again deflected attention away from Martin O’Neill and his Irish team. As long as Roy […]

This week in the news I read about the alleged rape of Shia LaBeouf. I loath using the word alleged as a precursor to rape. If someone says they were raped, if you ask me we should live in a society that believes that claim. As idealistically left-wing as that […]

So… the Queen ‘Bey’ has done it again, if recent (and very naughty) photos are to be believed. Nicki Minaj, Justin Timberlake and Rihanna are to be the guest vocalists on volume to Beyonce’s self titled, formerly surprising opus. I’m not going to add to what many have already covered […]

The weight of expectation is interesting.  To look back over the last fifteen years and see just how far Christopher Nolan’s career has come – from shooting a low-budget thriller with his mates in London to fiddling around with $165m – is pretty incredible.  With wildly ambitious and interesting films like […]