I’ve seen that girl somewhere before. Yes, she was in Eastenders, wasn’t she? Hold on, she was in Harry Enfield just yesterday as well. In fact, if I dig deep I can think of dozens of things she’s been in. Nicola Stapleton, cameo sensation, comes to the
Mina, a young white South African girl, visits her old black nanny Sophie, whom she hasn’t seen for 10 years, in her home in Soweto. The reunion is not as joyful as she had hoped. When looking for things past, one often searches for and remembers what has never
The first part of this collection of three short stories started out as a short on its own but writer/director Hal Hartley decided it would be interesting to explore the theme in further detail. So he filmed the second and third parts using the same basic story as the
Last week some of you experienced the full force of Imperial College Union Big Band in Action. Playing in Southside Bar the full force of our Jazz was released onto the staff and students of IC. Celebrated Basie works such as ‘Shiny Stockings’ and ‘One O’Clock Jump’ where contrasted
Based around the shooting of a film in the suburbs of Paris, Irma Vep is a deeply satirical look at modern French cinema. It is essentially the simple story line of the obsessive director attempting the impossible - to recreate the magic of Feuillade’s early silent classic ‘Les Vampires’
The idea of a TV show based on the antics of a pair of teenage heavy metal fans who shriek and groan at every opportunity must have seemed intensely daft to someone at some point. Even so, a series was born with the main topics being "chicks ‘n stuff&
It seems that these days everyone’s harping on the jungle, Drum ‘n Bass music bandwagon. What first started out as a British underground dance phenomenon has now hit the charts. Of course, I don’t need to remind you that there is a queue of well known artists waiting
So you can still remember the Oasis versus Blur showdown sometime during the summer of ‘95, as though it was yesterday. There was the frantic rush of hysteria and Blur ended up the winners with their song ‘Country House’ charting at number one. Now after a year and a half
A Fish called Wanda is the second most successful British film ever, and so it comes as little surprise that they have reteamed the same players to try and wrestle the record away from Four Wedding and a Funeral. Thus, we have Fierce Creatures not a sequel but involving all
When I picked this up I didn’t know what I would be presented with, but the word soul really intrigued me. What I got was really quite simply brilliant. An album that refuses to be pigeon-holed, I attempted to fit it to some sort of musical category salsa, latin,
This is the Cranes who have been around for a while, but this is their first release for several years. It’s well crafted and the songs compliment one another nicely. They start off simply with little more than an acoustic guitar and the singer’s voice. As the album
Cunningly timed to be released on Valentine’s Day, She’s the One, is the story of the ‘fighting Fitzpatricks’, an Irish-American family of men wrestling with infidelity and their muddled philosophies on life and love. Mickey (Edward Burns) is content to be a lay-about, care-free bachelor until one day
