“It is a lovely thing to see when two men has got a problem. It just gives you confidence that there is proper men out there still that’ll have a fair fight and sort it out like men.” Gone were their Gaga-esque flamboyant meringue dresses and provocative hip wiggling, and in its place were deadly [...]

Unbelievably it’s almost five years since the Kardashians first hit our screens. We’re now into Season 6, but if you want to re-live the naivety and wonder that was Kardashian Year One you can now get the very first season on DVD and look back on those halcyon days with joy. I like to think [...]

Nominations for the 84th Academy Awards were announced today with a field of  nine vying for Best Picture. Nominations are listed here on the Academy website, with Hugo taking the most. There were some surprises and a lot of vitriol as fan faves and dead certs were snubbed. Over on twitter where the news hits [...]

After the disappointment of Great Expectations the BBC redeemed itself this week with The Mystery of Edwin Drood, an altogether more entertaining adaptation of Dickens’ famously unfinished novel. Edwin Drood Jr. is an orphaned young gadabout whose father was killed in a mining accident and is now under the watchful eye of his uncle. The [...]

On Monday evening at a film premiere in central London, Jeremy Irons and Paul Bettany, two actors who have appeared in both independent films and summer blockbusters, admitted gracefully that the film they were currently promoting had been a low paid, low budget labour of love. Bettany spoke of his children and dog sleeping on [...]

After three glorious seasons, Lie To Me concluded almost a year ago with Dr Cal Lightman taking on his final case. At one time the show was enjoying over 12 million viewers and averaged at around 7. In 2011 it won two People’s Choice awards for Best Crime Drama and Best TV Crime Fighter (Tim Roth). Lightman was a [...]

Channel 5′s Celebrity Big Brother launched tonight with 13 desperate Z-listers entering a mock up Alpine ski lodge, from where it was all ‘downhill’. Befuddled balsa model Brian Dowling marshalled a baying crowd of semi-literate proto-humans as the following disciples of the damned were herded to their spiritual doom ; Natalie Cassidy (Eastenders actress) described [...]

On a top ten list of the worst pieces of news you can get, being told you’re the spitting image of Uday Hussein, son of Saddam, and that you have to pose as his double to fool would-be assassins would probably come somewhere near the top. Latif Yahia’s  contested life story describes the ups and [...]

The eagerly anticipated sequel to 2009′s Star Trek begins filming on Monday January 9th, and has added Brit actors Benedict Cumberbatch and Noel Clarke to its cast. Trek has met with various delays and uncertainty over whether director JJ Abrams would return, but filming is able to begin on Monday with Abrams at the helm, with [...]

December 27-29th, BBC 1 The BBC’s Christmas jewel in the crown for 2011 has been trailed since mid-July it seems and finally landed on Tuesday, three one hour programmes which concluded last night with a great deal of the book crammed in to the end as if the producers forgot how much they had left [...]

Even a murder trial couldn’t blight Christmas for one ordinary country-house family

With a bestselling original novel and smash-hit stage version behind it, Steven Spielberg’s take on this story of one boy and his horse and their experiences of WW1 could not be more highly anticipated. Opening with a swelling orchestra and chocolate-box shots of the British countryside, it is clear that we are meant to be [...]

Jean Pierre Jeunet’s modern classic Amelie is celebrating ten years since its release by making it to Blu-Ray through Momentum Pictures. The film was one of five contemporary classics which were released onto the new format in October. With Christmas just around the corner it might be the time to start dropping hints. Other films [...]

‘Looking after white babies is what I do’, says housemaid Aibileen (Viola Davis), the film starts with a promising voiceover that leaves the viewer unsuspecting of the engrossing, hilarious and witty scenes that lie ahead.  The Help is an interesting title that immediately suggests despair, anguish but also a resolution. Based on the novel of the [...]

BBC One’s Frozen Planet is an amazing  and mind-blowing documentary broadcasting some of the world’s greatest Antarctic species including polar bears, killer whales, white whales and penguins. Sir David Attenborough along with the production crew takes you on a thrilling polar expedition into the frozen wilderness and polar wildlife is explored. My favourite episode of [...]