By Anna Power, Film Editor @TLE_film Christopher Nolan fans will delight at the loopy, lustrous, pyrotechnic vision that is Interstellar but will the narrative hold up by comparison? Set in the near future, in a period of post climate-change meltdown and pre-apocalyptic collapse, we find the inhabitants of Earth (those lucky enough to still be alive), surviving, all hands turned to farming in an attempt to cultivate soil that is well on its way to desertification. Dust storms are a...

By Charlotte Hope, Lifestyle Editor @TLE_Lifestyle  I went to South East Asia when I was eighteen, on a trailblazing gap year through Thailand, Australia and Singapore, a route no youth enjoying a year out before university had ever taken before. Something I rarely tell people when I extol the virtues of finding myself in Thailand was that I actually never indulged in a Thai massage - the look of complete horror on the few people who I’ve shared this with,...

By Charlotte Hope, Lifestyle Editor @TLE_Lifestyle The life of the typical Londoner is notoriously busy, so busy in fact, that even the simplest tasks can seem like an impossible feat. That last minute business proposal you’ve been called in to draft means that the ominous and ever expanding pile of shirts on your kitchen table will have to wait for another day. And thanks to a night out entertaining clients, that pre-planned trip to the shops to re-supply the contents...

By Stephen Mayne  @finalreel By my count Robert Altman made five clear-cut masterpieces, of which one – McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) – is about as perfect as is possible in the medium. Ask other people and you’ll get different lists and different favourites. He was that kind of artist. He didn’t so much tell stories as create worlds that would subsume viewers until at least the credits, and often a long time afterwards. Ron Mann’s documentary reveals very little...

By Emily Wight Filmmaking is a crucial tool in the Human Rights Watch mission to investigate and expose rights violations around the world, and its annual film festival is an excellent way for the organisation to present the kind of issues it works so hard to push onto the agenda. Each year its programme showcases films from a range of countries, followed by talks and Q&A sessions with experts. This year’s festival, which closed in London on Friday, documented, among...

By Declan Roberts (declanmr) Mode, London, 27/03/15 3pm. London. Mode. Free. Definitely four things you wouldn’t associate with a Blur gig, but here we are. The band are previewing their sixth album ‘The Magic Whip’ to a lucky selection of fans in one of the capital’s smaller venues. ‘Lonesome Street’ opens the set, a combination of Coxon and Albarn vocals and a track that could have easily slotted into the ‘Parklike’ tracklist. It’s a start-stop affair with a pure Brit-pop vibe....

By Steve Taggart Star of The Hobbit, Sherlock and The Office, Martin Freeman explains that he believes this election is a choice between two completely different sets of values.  He says Labour are focused on community, compassion and fairness, while the Tories have cut taxes for millionaires and only work for people at the top. Watch on link (below) and see if you believe in what he says Photocredit "Martin Freeman during filming of Sherlock cropped" by Martin_Freeman_filming_Sherlock.jpg: Fat Les (bellaphon) from London, UKderivative...

By Nathan Lee, TLE Correspondent  A new study has revealed that despite Brits becoming more adventurous travellers, most of us still look for a Britain abroad when booking a holiday where they can speak English, order fry-ups for breakfast and ignore local customs. The research found that thousands of Brits have booked a holiday despite having no idea where it was on a map, with a quarter confessing that they wouldn't be able to point out their chosen destination on a map when they...

By Jasmine Stephens, Family Editor Screwed. Katherine (not her real name) sat down in a meeting room on her first day in the office after having a baby and was astonished to see that her back to work interview was being conducted by the person who had been covering her maternity leave. 'She sat down opposite me and slid a piece of paper over the table. At the top she had written her name next to the word "manager" and...