I’m pretty sure my American second cousins, should they visit us again in the next few years, would be very surprised to discover that in England, we sadly do not all wear long medieval dresses, ride carts and plot the downfall of the present monarch. Because the new show in […]

If there is any genre that either succeeds or fails with sequels, it is animation. While the majority deliver, usually at an even higher level of visual effects, many lack the emotional warmth with imagination and meaning from their predecessors. In 2010, Illumination Entertainment made their feature animation debut with […]

Rolling Stones tickets catch the imagination of shoppers as department store adds Ukash as cash payment option London, July 2013 – Discount department store, TJ Hughes added online cash payment provider, Ukash, to its payment options last month. To mark the launch of the service, designed to appeal to the […]

I can’t get away from it. Twenty seven years of age, presently living with the fiance’s parents in their (thankfully large) vicarage home, unmarried, no children, no house, and a temp job that is certainly feeling like my long-term job at the minute. It is quite clear, given the fact […]

Cabaret! The theatre form of the bizarre, the no-holds-barred and the riotously funny. It’s the kind of thing you generally have to search for. It’s not advertised to the general public, and the audience are a select group of people who tend to move in entertainment or art circles. So […]

It seems that no matter where you go there’s someone with a tattoo right in front of you, everybody knows at least two or three people that have braved the needle of a tattoo machine… they are more popular now than ever but whats the real appeal? Firstly everyone’s pain […]

Stoker marks director Park Chan-wook’s English language debut feature. In his home country of South Korea, Chan-wook has previously made thrillers with vicious subject matters with arguably the most notable example being Oldboy. Considering the alteration of language, location shooting and visual style, Stoker could be his career-changing or career-slipping […]

Whether a band, duet or solo artist, life isn’t easy for a musician trying to make it in today’s industry. Aside from the obvious issue of digital piracy, the problem is that the once revolutionary idea of online promotion just doesn’t quite seem to cut it any more. The internet’s […]