By Emma Silverthorn @HouseOf_Gazelle As the year that marks the centenary of World War One comes to a close the expected glut of films documenting that period has not manifest. James Kent and Juliette Towhidi’s adaptation of Vera Brittain’s doorstop of a memoir Testament of Youth standing alone as the most high profile WW1 film of the year. The film is a tear-jerker, has some lovely moments visually, (one scene that was particularly striking was a shot of a Paul...

By Kit Power  Film Editor @TLE_Film Following on from his success with Dallas Buyers Club Jean-Marc Vallee directs Wild, a tale of grief, hurt and healing, literally one step at a time. Reece Witherspoon gives a striking performance as novice, lone-hiker Cheryl Strayed (based on her memoir) who undertook the precipitous 1,100 mile journey through the wilderness as the ill-thought-through solution to a car-crash rock bottom, resulting in the breakdown of her marriage and subsequent divorce. Donning freshly pressed hiking...

Things used to be different back in the day. House prices were affordable, you could get a pint for less than £3 and university courses didn't require tens of thousands of pounds in funding. But how cheap were things really? Well, Provident is challenging the nation to try and remember prices of the past! This includes the price of petrol in 2003, the cost of a London bus ticket, holidays, houses, food and drink, weddings, razors and all kinds of other things....

After Neknominate took the nation by storm and the ice bucket challenge replicated its success and then some, a new viral campaign has emerged on Facebook in the shape of our first profile pictures. On  February 4 Facebook will turn 11 years-old, which means that we have been socially active on the network for just long enough to tap the vast resource that is nostalgia. TimeHop has already reaped the rewards from digging up old photos and posts in a sort of digital...

By Darragh Roche What ever happened to Thomas Dewey? If you've never heard of him,  it might be useful to look into him. His name will probably start cropping up in the next few months.  Mitt Romney, the man who lost the 2012 US presidential election to Barack Obama, looks like he's planning to pull a Dewey and run a second time. Moderate Republicans have rejoiced at the news. Romney, former Massachusetts governor and America's most famous Mormon, told some...

Sport News 24/7 By Rob McHugh  @mchughr  @TLE_Sport Several clubs who were mainstays in the top flight at the end of the 20th Century have had a millennium to forget, and few have had a worse time than Sheffield Wednesday.  League Cup champions in 1991, and defeated League and FA Cup finalists in 1993, the Owls entered the 90's with real reasons to believe the club could challenge for top honours on a consistent basis.  But this hope fell away...

By Elsa Buchanan,  Less than 48 hours after the violent attacks on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo left 12 dead, a macabre business around "Je Suis Charlie" has been emerging on the internet. Phone cases and personalised T-shirts vendors are using the tragedy to make money. You can now buy your personalised "Je Suis Charlie" T-shirt for €20, or perhaps you fancy a "Je Suis Charlie" Iphone cover instead? Less than 48 hours after the violent attack on France's satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo left...

By Elsa Buchanan,  Russia says drivers must not have 'sex disorders', and has listed transsexual and transgender people as those who will no longer qualify for driving licences.  Russia has banned transsexuals and people with "disorders" involving sexual preference and gender identity, including exhibitionists and fetishists, from obtaining driver's licenses. The new law, aimed at "promoting public health" by reducing traffic deaths, extends Russia's legal campaign against homosexuality. The decree, signed by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, empowers officials to ban...

By Will Herrmann Writing about Ched Evans, his past misdemeanours and his future employment in a week that’s seen the tragic unfoldings  in Paris seems wrong.  However, the huge amount of bile that I keep being bombarded with on both mainstream and social media has driven me to try and make the most obvious point about the case. Ched Evans has been convicted as a rapist.  As a fully signed up member of the democracy that we live in and,...