Our favourite new TV mockumentary, the battle of the catwomen – and a call for students to contribute to the Guardian
Pirate radio on the TV?
We're really hoping that People Just Do Nothing, the 20-minute mockumentary about a pirate radio station, gets commissioned for a series. Ali G meets The Office. It's brillianOn BBC iPlayer now.
Cat fight
Christopher Bale returns as Batman this Friday in The Dark Knight Rises. But really it's all about Catwoman. Can Anne Hathaway better Michelle Pfeiffer's 1992 portrayal? We doubt it.
Posh camping
What's going on with the word camping? We started with glamping - a terrible attempt to make sleeping in a damp tent seem glamorous. Now we have campbling (one up from glamping), glamavan(the word van will never conjure up glamour,) and chillamping (camping in the cold), which is definitely preferable to wamping – wet camping. Sadly the latter is the most...
Pirate radio on the TV?
We're really hoping that People Just Do Nothing, the 20-minute mockumentary about a pirate radio station, gets commissioned for a series. Ali G meets The Office. It's brillianOn BBC iPlayer now.
Cat fight
Christopher Bale returns as Batman this Friday in The Dark Knight Rises. But really it's all about Catwoman. Can Anne Hathaway better Michelle Pfeiffer's 1992 portrayal? We doubt it.
Posh camping
What's going on with the word camping? We started with glamping - a terrible attempt to make sleeping in a damp tent seem glamorous. Now we have campbling (one up from glamping), glamavan(the word van will never conjure up glamour,) and chillamping (camping in the cold), which is definitely preferable to wamping – wet camping. Sadly the latter is the most...
- 7/15/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
From Goldie to Edwina Currie, leading figures from music, politics, film, charities and the media assess Plan B's directorial debut
Camila Batmanghelidjh
Founder of Kids Company, a London charity for vulnerable young people
The film is an incredibly accurate portrait of that kind of environment. It wasn't two-dimensional in that the characters weren't just purely evil – the good in them also showed. I've met all those characters in the course of my work. The little boys terrorised into joining the criminal network are just so real. It demonstrated what I keep telling people: don't say a child chooses to join a gang; there is no choice. The cycle of brutalisation, with kids brutalising kids, the girl fights, all of it is so accurate.
I want to get a copy of this film and deliver it to the prime minister and say: "This is another bit of your country that you don't talk about,...
Camila Batmanghelidjh
Founder of Kids Company, a London charity for vulnerable young people
The film is an incredibly accurate portrait of that kind of environment. It wasn't two-dimensional in that the characters weren't just purely evil – the good in them also showed. I've met all those characters in the course of my work. The little boys terrorised into joining the criminal network are just so real. It demonstrated what I keep telling people: don't say a child chooses to join a gang; there is no choice. The cycle of brutalisation, with kids brutalising kids, the girl fights, all of it is so accurate.
I want to get a copy of this film and deliver it to the prime minister and say: "This is another bit of your country that you don't talk about,...
- 5/26/2012
- by Lethal Bizzle, Edwina Currie
- The Guardian - Film News
The London riots Hackney Heroine Pauline Pearce has shocked Simon Cowell with her vocal skills at the latest round of auditions for Britain's Got Talent. Pearce became a well known figure during the riots last summer, when video clips emerged of her berating rioters and standing up to gangs of youths. A clip featuring Pearce waving her walking stick and shouting, "Why are you burning people's shops they have worked hard to build up?" went viral and she went on to make TV appearances on shows such as This Morning. At the Hammersmith Apollo Got Talent auditions this week, Pearce performed Ralph McTell's 'The Streets of London' and Louis Armstrong's 'What A Wonderful World', which earned her cheers from (more)...
- 2/10/2012
- by By Alex Fletcher
- Digital Spy
London, Dec 29: BBC has sparked controversy by naming a giant panda named Sweety among 12 females in its 'Faces of 2011' list.
The giant panda also known as Tian Tian, was listed on the BBC's website as the female face of December, after she made headlines when she was moved to Edinburgh Zoo from China with a male panda to breed, the Daily Mail reported.
She joined 11 other distinguished names including shot U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, Pauline Pearce - dubbed the heroine of Hackney after she was filmed standing up to rioters in north London - and Libyan Iman al-Obeidi, who burst into a press conference to reveal she had been gang-raped by Colonel Gaddafi's officials.
Defending its decision to name Sweetie.
The giant panda also known as Tian Tian, was listed on the BBC's website as the female face of December, after she made headlines when she was moved to Edinburgh Zoo from China with a male panda to breed, the Daily Mail reported.
She joined 11 other distinguished names including shot U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, Pauline Pearce - dubbed the heroine of Hackney after she was filmed standing up to rioters in north London - and Libyan Iman al-Obeidi, who burst into a press conference to reveal she had been gang-raped by Colonel Gaddafi's officials.
Defending its decision to name Sweetie.
- 12/29/2011
- by Machan Kumar
- RealBollywood.com
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