“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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

As the BBC cuts bite, it seems there is no more money in the kitty for grotesque seven foot tall stuffed foxes, the services of Ulrika Jonsson and oversized prams in which to wheel around Jack Dee. Yes, Shooting Stars has suffered its second cancellation, but we couldn’t let it go without recounting some of our [...]

Christmas TV ad breaks in 2011 are more like an independent film festival than a shameless assault on your buying power, what with John Lewis’ sad little boy and Iceland driving Stacey Solomon back to her Dagenham mansion to commence with mothering duties. Let’s look back to a simpler time, when Bill Oddie sold you [...]

The latest show from Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk is a no-holds-barred horror story set in a haunted house in LA. Here are five reasons why you will become addicted to American Horror Story. 1. It’s scary Just as you suspected that Nip/Tuck might involve surgery, and that Glee had few serial killers in it, [...]

Eccentric actor Misha Collins, known to most as Castiel the angel on the CW’s Supernatural, has launched an international scavenger hunt aimed at raising funds for his Haiti relief charity and breaking a Guinness World Record. The star set an intricate scavenger hunt early this year involving team work, a rhino jigsaw puzzle and a [...]