Snowden: London Film Festival Review
By Anna Power @Powerpops No stranger to controversy, Oliver Stone continues his exploration of personal conflict enmeshed with the political, in his latest film Snowden. Bringing fresh perspective on Edward Snowden – the man, and his whistleblowing on covert civilian data monitoring by the NSA (National Security Agency), the film casts a paranoiac shadow over labyrinthine, secretive government operations resulting in a tense, dramatisation of events. Building on Laura Poitras Oscar winning documentary Citizenfour, the film starts at the now...
LIVE: A Giant Dog – The Waiting Room, London
5th Dec 2016 The Waiting Room, London Feral, sweaty, and with the faint tang of ammonia, A Giant Dog’s unabashed rock makes their contemporaries look positively repressed. Leave your kids in the car for this one. Scuzzy, joyous and propelled by sex and groove in equal measure, their set tonight is a spectacle in brazen rock ‘n’ roll. The misfit role fits A Giant Dog like your favourite leotard.This latest iteration of A Giant Dog sounds big live, and the...
Indochine: DVD Review
By Wyndham Hacket Pain Originally released in 1992 and winner of that year’s Best Foreign Film Academy Award, it has been nearly 25 years since Indochine was in cinemas. The new DVD re-release and restoration couldn’t in many ways be more timely with an entire generation, including myself, missing the release first time round. This feels like an opportunity to revaluate a film that seems to sit in an in-between state, as it has neither garnered recent acclaim nor classic...
Office Christmas Party: Film Review
By Linda Marric @linda_marric Directed by Josh Gordon and Will Speck, Office Christmas Party sees the return of a pairing responsible for some of the highest-grossing comedies of the last few years. Fresh from starring in the rather disappointing sequel of Horrible Bosses, Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman are back for more awkward gross-out moments and silly shenanigans. Also starring in the film is TJ Miller of Silicon Valley fame, and Saturday Night Live’s Kate McKinnon. Clay (TJ Miller) manages...
PWR BTTM Announce UK Tour April 2017
Having just finished their sold-out UK tour, New York’s PWR BTTM have announced a huge new run of dates for April 2017. Their maiden trip to the UK, in support of their awesome first album Ugly Cherries, saw the band packing out shows, with their London gig selling out in less than a day. Expect millennial ennui filtered through a queer lens. PWR BTTM are currently finishing the follow up album to Ugly Cherries, due for release in 2017. Tickets...
VaR, IFA, AER – What The FSA!
How many times have you heard jargon such as VaR, IFA and AER and had no idea what on Earth people were talking about? When it comes to finances ignorance is bliss for most Brits, but it could be costing us a lot of money. A new report has found that two thirds of people could be losing out on cash because they don’t fully understand many financial terms, and 74 per cent say they feel completely bamboozled when talking to financial experts....
How Monk Turned Around Leeds
Sport News 24/7 We’re through the first week of December and Leeds United still have the same manager at the helm as they did in August – that tells you all you need to know about how well Leeds are faring under Garry Monk. The form of the side at Elland Road in recent years has been appalling, but pride is returning along with the buzz around the old stadium. It’s not quite witnessing a Revie-esque revival just yet, but...
Sutton United prove that magic of the FA Cup still exists
Sport News 24/7 By Richard de Winter - TLE Sports Columnist @rgdewinter @TLE_Sport I am just about of the generation that still believes in the so-called ‘magic of the cup.’ In my extreme youth, Cup Final Day was an event, one of few live football matches on the TV. I still remember the anticipation of the build-up, the route to the final montages, and my bemusement at people crying during the singing of Abide With Me (it was only a hymn)....
London’s post-Brexit property market: What we know so far
In the weeks leading up to the June 23 Brexit referendum, the Bank of England warned that a vote to leave the European Union could result in a recession, raising fears that housing prices could plummet. Yet in the months following the controversial vote, inflation rates have stabilised and housing prices have slowly risen. Between May and August, housing prices increased by a total of 0.87%, with growth rates of approximately 0.15% each month. And as described below, a 0.063%...