By Stephen Mayne @finalreel Clint Eastwood has never been for messing around. His 34th film as director opens looking up the barrel at a bulky Bradley Cooper, and down the scope at a mother and child Cooper’s Chris Kyle is going to have to kill. American Sniper seems an unashamedly ...
By Emma Silverthorn @HouseOf_Gazelle As the year that marks the centenary of World War One comes to a close the expected glut of films documenting that period has not manifest. James Kent and Juliette Towhidi’s adaptation of Vera Brittain’s doorstop of a memoir Testament of Youth standing alone as the ...
By Kit Power Film Editor @TLE_Film Following on from his success with Dallas Buyers Club Jean-Marc Vallee directs Wild, a tale of grief, hurt and healing, literally one step at a time. Reece Witherspoon gives a striking performance as novice, lone-hiker Cheryl Strayed (based on her memoir) who undertook the ...
Things used to be different back in the day. House prices were affordable, you could get a pint for less than £3 and university courses didn't require tens of thousands of pounds in funding. But how cheap were things really? Well, Provident is challenging the nation to try and remember prices ...
After Neknominate took the nation by storm and the ice bucket challenge replicated its success and then some, a new viral campaign has emerged on Facebook in the shape of our first profile pictures. On February 4 Facebook will turn 11 years-old, which means that we have been socially active on the ...
By Darragh Roche What ever happened to Thomas Dewey? If you've never heard of him, it might be useful to look into him. His name will probably start cropping up in the next few months. Mitt Romney, the man who lost the 2012 US presidential election to Barack Obama, looks ...
Sport News 24/7 By Rob McHugh @mchughr @TLE_Sport Several clubs who were mainstays in the top flight at the end of the 20th Century have had a millennium to forget, and few have had a worse time than Sheffield Wednesday. League Cup champions in 1991, and defeated League and FA ...
By Elsa Buchanan, Less than 48 hours after the violent attacks on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo left 12 dead, a macabre business around "Je Suis Charlie" has been emerging on the internet. Phone cases and personalised T-shirts vendors are using the tragedy to make money. You can now buy your personalised ...
By Elsa Buchanan, Russia says drivers must not have 'sex disorders', and has listed transsexual and transgender people as those who will no longer qualify for driving licences. Russia has banned transsexuals and people with "disorders" involving sexual preference and gender identity, including exhibitionists and fetishists, from obtaining driver's licenses. ...