Film lovers are clamouring for movies based on David Bowie, Bob Marley and Frank Sinatra, according to a survey. After the success of 2018’s Bohemian Rhapsody, based on rock group Queen, researchers polled the British public to find out what other musical stories they’d like to see on the silver screen. Other dream rock star biopics which appear in the top 10 wishlist include those of Kurt Cobain, Madonna and Stevie Wonder. Robbie Williams’ colourful career was the seventh most-wanted...
Dean DeBlois has done it again! One of the most noticeable and remarkable things about the How to train your Dragon franchise is its ability to make adults realise their inner child and come into touch with those feelings once again. Furthermore, the animation captivatingly brings to life a world where dragons actually exist, and leaves us dreaming we were Berkians living in the village of Berk. Let’s face it, with dragons as adorable as Toothless, who wouldn’t want to be a...
Dave Holden is an instructor at the Intergalactic Saber Masters
The Copacabana nightclub, 1962. The rugged chief bouncer Tony 'The Lip' Vallelonga finds himself out of work while the club is refurbished, and agrees to drive concert pianist Dr. Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali) across country for his upcoming tour. Snags to this arrangement are that not only is Don a genteel, particular man, he is also an African-American who will be travelling through the American Deep South. Tony must rely on the Green Book for Negro Travellers to get Don...
Vice opens not in an office of government but with the sight of a young Dick Cheney being called over by the police for drink driving. Having already dropped out of Yale, he spent most of his early twenties drinking and working as an electricity maintenance worker. Fearful that his life was going nowhere, his wife Lynne (Amy Adams) demands that he cleans up his act and by 1969 he was interning in the White House. Initially under the tutelage...
There's something rather troubling about Glass Most of the film is set in a lunatic asylum where our 'heroes', convinced they're of the super variety, are being treated for various forms of mental illness. The psychiatrist in charge, played by Sarah Paulson, is trying to achieve a breakthrough in record time by curing them of their delusions. But are they delusions? The inmates, Kevin Wendell Crumb (James McAvoy), Elijah Price (Samuel L. Jackson) and David Dunn (Bruce Willis) seem to...
Arthur Weasley actor Mark Williams rowed with the Brasenose College Rowing Club – his former school
Perry Allen-Thomas was caught in laying in bed with more than five ounces of drugs around his house during a police raid.
Beautiful Boy is an affecting drama about a father coping with his son’s drug addiction that is equally intriguing as it is frustrating. It stars Steve Carrell as David Sheff, a successful journalist living in rural California. His son Nic (Timothée Chalamet) is a seemingly normal teenager who is getting ready to go to university but it becomes apparent that he is not just consuming alcohol and cannabisbut also cocaine, ecstasy, and crystal meth. A short stink in rehab appears to have positive results but, in a...
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