By Stephen Mayne @finalreel In the latter half of the twentieth century, the US and the Soviet Union fought a battle for ideological supremacy. A crude and particularly western view of the conflict saw it as a straight fight between the forces of freedom and creative enterprise against a brutally rigid system of oppression. Even taking that bombastic brand of propaganda at face value, the argument doesn’t exactly apply in the world of men’s Ice Hockey. On this frozen field...

By Leslie Byron Pitt @Afrofilmviewer Karyn Kusama’s The Invitation would play well in a dining room disaster triple bill with last year’s dining room sci-fi Coherence (2014) and Hitchcock’s Rope (1948). It’s a deceptive film, which at its surface presents itself as a conventional B movie thriller in its own right. Yet Kusama (Jennifer’s Body) is not one to play along with typical formality. While The Invitation is best viewed with little to no background knowledge about its story, it...

By Leslie Byron Pitt @Afrofilmviewer Despite showing up in films such as A Most Violent Year (2014) and Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011), Christopher Abbott is still probably best known for his two year stint as the sensitive Charlie in Lena Dunham’s Girls. Abbott sheds this cleaner cut image he’s most connected with, to become the heavy drinking, aggressive and self-destructive James White in the film that bares the character’s name. We enter James’ life in the eye of a...

19: The Other Football (Wed 7th October 2015) Hello once again! As regular readers will know, last week I was banging on about American Football. This week, I’m going to be chatting about the other football (or “English Soccer” as I understand fans of the sport prefer it to be known) as I’ve been asked to review both FIFA 16 from EA Sports, and Konami’s Pro Evolution Soccer – better known as PES 2016. I’ve always had a strange relationship...

By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Strength: 5.1% ABV Brewed: Ipplepen, Devon Although better known for its range of grooming products, The Bluebeards Revenge has teamed up with their local Devon-based brewery - Hunter’s – in order to craft ‘The Ultimate Pale Ale For Real Men’. Available as a conditioned man-size 500ml bottle, the brew is unpasteurised and unfiltered for optimum taste and made using Citra and East Kent Golding’s hops. Upon pouring, an opaque amber complexion is joined by...

Sport News 24/7 By David de Winter - Sports Editor @davidjdewinter  @TLE_Sport It was a tame draw in the Merseyside derby at the weekend that finally convinced JW Henry to dispense with Brendan Rodgers’ services as Liverpool manager.  Derbies can define a manager’s reign and despite having a fairly good record against Everton, there was not enough on show at Goodison Park for Liverpool’s owners to continue with Rodgers at the helm.  In truth, the writing was always on the...

Sport News 24/7 By Richard de Winter It wasn’t supposed to end like that.  On Saturday morning most experts suggested that a combination of superior forward play, home advantage and sheer desperation would see England defeat Australia.  The Guardian asked 6 of its columnists, including Eddie Butler and Graham Henry, for their prediction.  Every single one, rather embarrassingly, picked England to win, a ratio that looked questionable at the time, and bizarre with hindsight. There will be consequences, I am...

By Ben Gelblum  The TLE have obtained footage of a delegate to the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester man-handling a woman filming the Disabled People Against the Cuts protest (DPAC) outside the conference yesterday lunchtime. The TLE spoke today to the camera woman who was filming protests on Monday for live streaming website Independence Live. The 54-year-old who had traveled from Scotland to film thousands take to the streets of Manchester this week to protest against the Conservative austerity programme, said:...

When you're a kid, Halloween is a time for wrapping yourself head to toe in toilet paper, necking a bag of Haribo and wrecking your facepaint bobbing for apples. As an adult, All Hallow's Eve is all of these things plus a cauldron a smokey spirits, fishnets and more than one clever chap dressed as a used tampon. Scary indeed. If your fancy dress game is particularly strong this year or you're just not keen on having your house smashed up...