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Blood Red Shoes Album Launch Gig Review
I had the wonderful experience on Sunday of watching Blood Red Shoes play an intimate album launch gig at The Fighting Cocks in Kingston upon Thames, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon; this made me...
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Why I Love My Job as a Make-up Designer on 'Dancing on Ice'
My department's biggest challenge this year was moving into live High Definition Television, but this was also an exciting opportunity to show the make-up team's creativity, skill and artistry. With...
View ArticleSurely the Death of BBC3 Is a Good Thing for New Talent?
Naturally, the demise of BBC3 has caused a mini-furore among certain elements of the entertainment community. A blow to original comedy. The death of new talent. A victory for the men in suits. All...
View ArticleBBC3 Axed... To Save Sherlock
Last week we heard that BBC Director General Tony Hall was expected to axe either BBC3 or BBC4. And now we discover that it's BBC3 that's got the chop. Speaking at the Oxford Media Convention last week...
View ArticlePorn Is Not Your Friend So Why Do You Hang Out With Him So Much?
If porn was a person it would definitely be a man. A man who had had a really fucked up childhood, was bullied by his mother and didn't learn about healthy co-existence with a female until it was far...
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Edge of Tomorrow Preview and Doug Liman Q and A
It's around this time each year that invitations start coming in from the studios wishing to build excitement for their big summer films. The invites are to events that usually consist of some above...
View ArticleSXSW: A Music Manager's View
In just a few days time, the doors to the biggest and most important showcase for new music swing open again. I can still recall my first experience of South By South West (SXSW) - it was rambunctious,...
View Article(Don't Watch) The Most Terrifying Scene in Cinema History
I love truly great scare scenes. I think there are only a handful of genuinely fantastic ones in the history of horror cinema; the ones that pin you to the back of your seat like a deer in the...
View ArticleA War on the Young? The Closure of BBC Three
The BBC's decision to close its sole youth-focused TV channel, BBC Three, is both depressing and divisive. Depressing because it represents yet another attack on a generation that is already facing the...
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Imelda Staunton Shines in Good People at Hampstead Theatre
Photo by keanlanyon A tough gritty drama about life for a single mother in the rough area of South Boston may not be the kind of production you'd expect to see on a London stage, let alone with Imelda...
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International Women's Day
International Women's Day Celebrating what it means to be a girl. What was it like when you got your first period? Cramps? Stained trousers? Sudden panic that someone might KNOW? Now imagine what that...
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All the Challenges Facing Feminism on Show at Southbank Centre's Women of the...
Photo credit - Southbank Centre International Women's Day 2014 saw, for the fourth year, the Southbank Centre organise their spectacular and diverse WOW - Women of the World festival. And on show was...
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The Bumps of the A-List: The Oscars Pregnancy Style
The who's who of Hollywood were out in force last Sunday, walking the most famous of all red carpets in LA for the 86th Academy Awards. And so too were the A-list baby bumps: from Kerry Washington to...
View ArticleIt's Brilliant But Is It Broad? The Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction...
A few days ago I wrote on here about my hopes for this year's Women's Fiction Prize longlist: that it would be take the opportunity of a new sponsor (Baileys) to reposition itself as a broader, more...
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DVD Reviews - ' Short Term 12' and 'Age of Uprising'
A funny and emotional indie gem from writer director Destin Cretton, beautifully acted and quite exceptional and a feudal tale of revenge, righteousness and rebellion. Director: Destin Cretton Cast:...
View ArticlePoets as Well as Plunderers: The British Museum's New Viking Exhibit Is a Hit...
The problem with the British Museum's new show, Vikings: Life and Legend, isn't the, at times, lack-lustre exhibits, nor the repetitiveness of said exhibits - how many cloak pins and measuring weights...
View ArticleSilent Grace: A Film Review
Silent Grace is an award-winning 2004 film, directed by filmmaker Maeve Murphy. It documents a disturbing chapter of Northern Ireland's nonviolent dirty protests and hunger strikes by republican female...
View ArticleThe Voice 2014 Battle Round Show Two
As the battle commenced last week it was a nervy, but successful, round for Team Midas. All four acts, including 'steal' act Christina Marie, progressed to the knock outs. Fingers crossed the remaining...
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Peter Young, DJ: A Master of Spin
Picture it. The kitchen radio, a glistening hunk of bakelite, its alignment of valves producing a sound that commanded attention. You're a kid busy hanging onto your mother's skirt as she cooks the...
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Humour and Beauty in On the Streets With Jilly Ballistic, Mobstr, Pose,...
This week's 'On the Streets' focuses on the subtle humour and finer elegance of street art. The pieces that caught our attention, located mostly in NYC and London, are all conceptually fresh, original...
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