By Sam Inglis @24fpsUK 24fps.org.uk Kumiko The Treasure Hunter starts out by telling us it's a true story, but it does so in a unique way. The caption comes from another film, Fargo, which was lying in its caption. It's the beginning of an interesting relationship between this film and the 'truth'. Kumiko is based on the true story of a Japanese woman who was found dead in North Dakota in 2001. She had frozen to death after searching for...

Sport News 24/7 By Chris Brown  @VivaBrownie  @TLE_Sport When Aston Villa announced they had hired ‘one of English football’s most highly sought after managers’ the footballing nation was bemused with speculation. ‘Mourinho?  Can’t be, why would he leave Chelsea to go to Aston?  Maybe he’s a secret Black Sabbath fan.  No, no, doesn’t sound right.  Pulis has only just gone to the Baggies.  Ahh, it must be Big Sam.  He’s had enough of being hounded by the ever indignant West...

Sport News 24/7 By Simon White  @SimonWhite14  @TLE_Sport Serie A has proved a graveyard for the once mighty in recent years.  Both Inter and AC Milan now find themselves struggling mid-table in 10th and 11th positions respectively, having once been at the pinnacle of Italian football, competing for domestic and European titles on a regular basis.  No doubt the reason for this lies with their owners’ poor management of finances, and buying players that their clubs could not afford.  While...

By Steve Taggart   With awards season drawing to a close, it is not only movies and actors that deserve recognition for their work. Global real estate network Lamudi rolls out the red carpet for the Property Oscars - recognizing some of the leaders in international real estate.  Category: Tallest Building And the Oscar goes to…the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It is 829.9 metres (2,722ft) high and has claimed the official title of tallest building in the...

By David Harvey In case you hadn't heard, a General Election is coming. Before you switch off, thinking this may be some party political point, it isn't, but it does offer a genuine alternative to the status quo. Your real alternative is to vote “none of the above”. The only problem is that The Electoral Commission who “work to support a healthy democracy, where elections and referendums are based on our principles of trust, participation, and no undue influence” seem...

By Sam Inglis @24fpsUK  24fps.org.uk  The horror genre has always been one for hybrids, both in terms of what it depicts and how it uses generic convention. The thing is, combining two ideas that work in isolation, interesting as the concept may be, doesn't always lead to a third great thing. That seems to be what has happened with Spring. You have to applaud the daring and originality of the concept; filtering Before Sunrise through a Cronenbergian monster movie is...

Sport News 24/7 By Ellie Caddick  @caddicksport  @TLE_Sport Ireland v England is already being billed as the Six Nations decider despite taking place in only the third round of the competition.  The assumption that the result of this game will be pivotal to the championship may seem premature; however, as the top two in the standings, one of Ireland and England will be bidding farewell to a potential Grand Slam for another year. England enter this encounter having beaten the...

By Rosie Wilson We’ve all got a little bit of celebrity envy, haven’t we? That one star who always looks glossy and groomed, who is effortlessly chic, or who we could maybe, possibly look a tiny bit like if we got up at 5am to do our hair and makeup and then everyone squinted a bit when they looked at us? And now awards season is upon us, celeb-envy is at its height - you can’t miss the legions of...

By Bill Lytton "A biased, partisan depiction of the only party that Believes in Britain." Those are the words - and remember them - of Nigel Farage describing Channel 4's "docu-drama": 'Ukip: the First 100 Days'. Fictionalised satire, or speculative fiction; this is Chris Atkin's dystopian sketch of a United Kingdom where the Farage party have taken the country by means of unfathomable political landslide. Already, this sordid act of biased fictional portrayal has garnered more than a thousand complaints...