Sport News 24/7 By Jack Peat, Editor of The London Economic This weekend Britain's football elite will embark on their FA cup journey after a typically jam-packed Festive schedule. While clubs across Europe manage to get some much-needed rest, the powers that be (BT Sport, BskyB) ensure professional footballers in ...
By Sam Inglis @24FPSUK The only interesting thing about Dying of the Light is its production history. Initially the screenplay by Paul Schrader was to be directed by Nicholas Winding Refn and star Harrison Ford and Channing Tatum. Some years later, the project has come to fruition with Nicolas Cage ...
By Anna Power Film Editor @Tle_Film @KittKino Not since Nicholas Ray’s Bigger than Life has there been a more palpable portrayal of a mental breakdown than Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman. It’s a film with wings that soars, thunders and ultimately roars as an unapologetic assault on the senses. Michael Keaton ...
By Stephen Mayne @finalreel Once upon a time, a new Tim Burton film was an event worth paying attention to. Then, after a string of disappointing gothic tinged fantasies that began to border on parodying his earlier work, they became something best ignored. Big Eyes, an admirable attempt to try ...
Sport News 24/7 By David de Winter - Sports Editor @davidjdewinter @TLE_Sport The January sales. Traditionally a time where one can purchase the best of last season for a knockdown price. Not so in the world of football. The January blues cause chairmen to write cheques left, right and centre, and ...
By Stephen Mayne @finalreel Now in his 70’s, Stephen Hawking has spent half a century defying expectations. For a man given no more than a two year prognosis following diagnosis of motor neurone disease in 1963, he’s lived a life of astonishing achievement. It’s disheartening then, that The Theory of ...
By Emma Silverthorn @HouseOf_Gazelle The cast and crew of Unbroken couldn’t be much more stellar; with Angela Jolie directing, the Coen brothers adapting Lauren Hilldenbrand’s memoir of Louis Zamperini’s life into the screenplay, and the exceptional Jack O’Connell in lead. O’Connell lives up to the hype that’s been surrounding him ...
By Anna Power TLE Film Editor An effortlessly cool, funny, truly timeless film from Hollywood’s golden age of musicals; Guys and Dolls is the kind of film that plants a sloppy smile on your face and fills your head with snappy songs you'll catch yourself singing in the shower for ...
By Matthew Biggin @MatthewBiggin @TLE_Sport This festive period most of us will be hanging up our stockings to the opening bars of Fairytale of New York as we guzzle mulled wine by the gallon. We’ll prepare for days of merriment, gift-giving and curling up in front of the fire to ...