By Max Lalanne, film critic This first trailer for the upcoming Gangster Squad, out October 19, looks Oscar-worthy terrific. The stellar cast includes Josh Brolin, Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Nicke Nolte, Giovanni Ribisi, Bryan Cranston, Anthony Mackie, and Michael Peña. Set in Los Angeles, 1949, ruthless Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen (Penn) runs [...]
By Dave Burridge, Economics Editor This week has seen two very important elections held in France and Greece. Important, not only for the respective countries but for Europe as a whole because the policies these new leaders are pursuing on EU debt are not those of their predecessors’. France have voted in Socialist Francois Hollande as [...]
By Alex Jones Edvard Munch’s ‘The Scream’ has become the most expensive artwork sold at auction after it was bought for an eye-watering $119.9m (£74m) by an unnamed telephone bidder at Sotheby’s in New York. Bidding lasted just 12 minutes as seven wealthy collectors competed for the Norweigian’s iconic work. Created in 1895, the pastel is one [...]
By Simon Farnsworth Norwegian world swimming champion Alexander Dale Oen has died during a training camp in Flagstaff, Arizona. Per Rune Eknes, the President of the Norwegian Swimming Federation, confirmed that Dale Oen had died after suffering a cardiac arrest. The 100m breaststroke world champion was found collapsed on his bathroom floor after training in Flagstaff on [...]
By Max Lalanne, film critic The Iron Lady in all honestly should have been called Maggie or Margaret and Dennis or something else like that. Why? Because Phyllida Lloyd’s oddly-constructed, somewhat uneven film about Margaret Thatcher, who became Great Britain’s first female Prime Minister in 1979 in a government wholly run by men, is not what you could call [...]
By Max Lalanne, Film Critic The screenwriter, Steve Kloves, who adapted J.K Rowling’s beloved Harry Potter novels and helped turn them into a massively successful franchise of the sort never seen before may have found his new project. Yes, it’s another book adaptation, but the similarities end there. According to Variety News, Steve Kloves is in early [...]
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By Naila Missous Human rights defender Narges Mohammadi was arrested over the weekend and transferred to Evin prison’s women’s ward. She has been issued with a six-year prison sentence. The press advocacy group said Mohammadi was and taken to Tehran’s notorious Evin prison, where many political dissidents continue to be held and where many are believed to have [...]
By Max Lalanne, Film Critic Today saw The Weinstein Co. release the first images from their upcoming December 25 release Django Unchained. The images show Jamie Foxx and Christoph Waltz getting their Western swagger on in full costume and apparent badass attitude, as well as a look at a bearded, cigarette-chomping, hammer-wielding Leonardo DiCaprio. In the [...]
By Alex Jones A massive explosion in the Syrian city of Hama has reportedly killed up to 70 people. Several houses in the Masha at-Tayyar district in southern Hama were destroyed by the explosion. The government and the opposition have both offered opposing accounts of events State controlled media have said that 16 people have died and the [...]
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