By Nathan Lee, TLE Correspondent  Costa Coffee has announced it is to trial a bizarre 'Coffee and a Kip' service that lets customers nod off and have a power nap when they hit an afternoon slump. The coffee chain is importing Japanese inspired Ostrich Pillows and will turn tables into relaxation zones. Customers will be able to place their coffee order, let staff know what time to wake them using the specially designed table clocks and take a nap, before...

  By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food   Chick ‘n’ Sours – Dalston Set to open in Dalston on April 17th, Chick 'n' Sours is Carl Clarke’s brand new Chicken restaurant, but a little different from the rest of the area’s cheap and cheerful Chicken shops. First off, all of the free range, herb fed Chicken on offer is sourced from Pilmoore Grange Farm in Yorkshire, and will be served in a range of different ways. Also, the restaurant will...

By Anna Power  @TLE_Film Editor “ I take it, I take it and I flip it.” James Brown Get On Up is a moving and suitably energetic homage to the legend that was James Brown, The Godfather of Soul. Much more than a rags-to-riches tale and avoiding the usual drab pitfalls that standard syrupy colour-by-number biopics fall into, Director Tate Taylor delivers a riveting portrait of a remarkable talent and an extraordinary life. A poor boy born in the rubble,...

By Stephen Mayne @finalreel As anyone with even a passing knowledge of science knows, you have to test a theory to prove it stands up.Horrible Bosses 2 does just that, stepping determinedly forward to add further weight to the already overwhelming body of evidence suggesting sequels yield diminishing returns. Sean Anders’ follow-up to 2011’s successful original is not without funny moments, perhaps inevitably so given the strength of the cast. If only it could let them loose without majoring in...

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...