The Olympics have been put to bed and there’s nothing but bilge on the box. Time to extract yourself from the sofa and skulk down the local uniplex to see what’s shaking, where this week the delights include a pair of triple-bills – including probably …
Harriet Harman woke up to the sound of overweight superheroes clambering on her roof this morning – for the second time in as many months. Two more Fathers4Justice campaigners have scaled her roof, unfurling a banner saying ‘Stop the War on Dads’ in the process, …
He’s climbed the world’s most iconic structures from the Eiffel Tower to the Petronas Towers. But French ‘Spiderman’ Alain Robert chose a curious challenge during his trip to London yesterday: Portland House on Victoria Street. Here’s the brute. As in, here’s Portland House, not Monsieur …
In addition to being the mad mastermind behind one of the best albums of the year so far, Dan Deacon is also the hardest working freak in the business. While even after witnessing his live performance and listening to his record numerous times, we’re still …
Deirdre and Maria, the Mormon chilli-wielding child dislikers, are jailed. 60,000 of our citizens are missing. Mourinho falls in love with the Olympics. One bedroom flat in Belgravia costs £3 million. But it does have a high ceiling, so plenty of space. If you’re Spiderman. …
This week – Spiderman gets into more bother (Spiderman 3) and a film that features Avril Lavigne (Fast Food Nation). Peter Bradshaw begins his review of Spiderman 3 thus, Global warming continues. The magnolias are blooming obscenely early. The sky is an unseasonable blue. The …
And so the big day arrives with a bang! I’m up early and cycling through quiet city streets already dappled with sunlight, cameras slung around my shoulders. I switch to public transport to make my way over to the Red Start in Greenwich Park and …
We’re guessing most of you are hungover from St. Patrick’s Day. We are too. But still, we’re going to muddle on through our green haze and give you (drum roll please…) this Week In -ists. We start with SFist which broke the -ist record for …
Guns. A big issue with our cousins across the pond. The 2nd Amendment to the constitution means that people can keep assault rifles at home, and with Bush and his cronies in the White House, it doesn’t look like there will be any changes to …
No it’s not a satellite being launched in the rough direction of Uranus in an attempt to discover if aliens are wearing unseasonal clothing, but the more down to Earth matter of our current Terrorist-Finder General facing an investigation into exactly why he told us …
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is quite obviously the big release of the week, only this time round it’s all dark and scary stuff as our hero makes the journey into adolescence and… God help us, haven’t we had all this stuff already …
