By Nathan Lee, TLE Correspondent The 2015 Beer Price Index of cities from across the World has confirmed what many of us already suspected; London is a costly place to grab a pint. The average price of a beer in the capital is now £2.92 (how much!) making it the ...
by Inka Piegsa I was lucky enough to live in Turkey for four years, but I didn’t stay put in my nice little apartment near Bodrum on Turkey’s Aegean Sea. Of most interest - especially for those wanting to avoid typical tourist traps, is Turkey's Black Sea coast. Contrary to ...
By Matt Keay To call The Happiness of the Katakuris a family drama would be to diminish its heart. To refer to it as a black comedy, however, would be to take away from the baffling and beautiful aspects of a film that contains a subplot of a Japanese confidence man claiming ...
By Leslie Byron Pitt, @Afrofilmviewer In terms of adult mainstream cinema, the final quarter of last year was dominated by talk of the gender politics of David Fincher’s slick adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s novel; Gone Girl. The film, as well as the book, merrily sticks and twists the knife on ...
By Laura Casewell According to the experts, this week the UK will be basking in temperatures set to hit the mid thirties which means one thing: summer is finally here. Whether you're jetting off on holiday or planning on basking in the rays found in your back garden, you may ...
The heyday of British seaside towns is long passed. Memories of a Cornetto on the pebbles and a sunburnt nose down the lido have been replaced by peeling paint, shuttered shop-fronts and piss-smelling sand. Allow Sleaford Mods to distill the scene into three minutes of bittersweet seaside town antics in ...
By Nathan Lee, TLE Correspondent will.i.am has spoken out about the advertising industry at Cannes Lions awards show, saying despite metrics that prove otherwise, people are simply not paying attention to it. The Black-Eyed Peas founder, singer and entrepreneur joined a panel of media and ad industry leaders this week ...
By Ellery Nick @Ellery_Nick After the success of Red Violin and Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould director François Girard returns once more to the realm of music, this time accompanied by a choir of young male sopranos. Along for the harmonic capers is a supporting cast that includes ...
Reviewed by Miranda Schiller @mirandadadada If The Wonders is a coming-of-age story, it is a very tender one. Teenager Gelsomina lives with her parents, three younger sisters, and aunt in a dilapidated farm building in rural Italy. They are a family of beekeepers, living a simple traditional life and struggling ...