July 21, 2012 · Leave a Comment
A masked gunman broke into a Denver cinema and shot dead at least 12 people and wounded 38 others, including children, during a late-night screening of the new Batman movie. James Holmes, 24, entered the mall in Aurora, Colorado dressed in black and wearing a gas mask and bullet-proof vest and set off a smoke … [Read the full story]
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May 29, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Always the best film event of the year Cannes is again exciting and filled with the finest films of the year. The judges however, should be taken aside and guided into what makes a good film and also a good actor. Todays cinema seems to be far inferior to the halcyon days of the early … [Read the full story]
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March 28, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Behind the camera, his pendulous lips exhaling bad breath and extraordinarily obscene jokes in a lugubrious Cockney accent, stood the corpulent figure of Alfred Hitchcock, acknowledged as cinema’s master of murder, mayhem and suspense. In front of the camera, poised, elegant, remote, and seemingly unattainable, reclined the exquisitely beautiful Tippi Hedren, his latest star, and … [Read the full story]
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November 20, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Soul Queen Aretha Franklin has cancelled all her concerts until May 2011 on doctors orders. The singer, who is now 68, has recently been in hospital with an illness. Although it isn’t known what sort of illness it is, she still reckons that she’ll complete her concerts next year. She has put some weight on … [Read the full story]
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September 11, 2010 · Leave a Comment
I think the thing I miss most since I left London to start a new life in Australia is being able to talk to my grandad. My grandchildren don’t listen to me they play on their playstations. Are there too many electrical gadgets around today to influence our children with ipods, Wii, play stations, dvd … [Read the full story]
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