by Hannah Kane | Jul 17, 2014 | Culture
Reasons To Go: 1. New Acting Talent Samantha Colley makes her professional stage debut at The Old Vic with a haunting yet fierce portrayal of the formidable Abigail Williams, holding her own opposite Richard Armitage and gripping the audience in the palm of her...
by Hannah Kane | Jul 16, 2014 | Culture
1. 20,000 Days on Earth Directed by: Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard Starring: Nick Cave, Ray Winstone, Kylie Minogue After the trailer for 20,000 Hours hit, many responded to Nick Cave’s on-screen intensity and zest by calling the film and its autobiographical...
by Hannah Kane | Jul 11, 2014 | Culture
Vampires, ear-licking, drag queen best friends and 70’s marching band uniforms: Emily Beeson joins Canadian dance rock’n’rollers The Wet Secrets for coffee at the Tate Modern… The Wet Secrets aren’t your typical rock’n’roll...
by Hannah Kane | Jul 8, 2014 | Culture
Discover the secret history of the selfie… The word “photograph” is a Greek word meaning “writing with light.” It now seems that everyone is the writer, director and actor of their own show, documenting their lives through pictures; albeit pictures...
by Hannah Kane | Jul 2, 2014 | Culture
The fast-rising British writer-producer-director Simon Savory lacks the ego to be described as an auteur, but he’s definitely a polymath. With a CV that includes stints as a reviewer at Disorder Magazine, a press and acquisitions exec at Peccadillo Pictures and...
by Hannah Kane | Jun 27, 2014 | Culture
Following critical success at the Edinburgh International Film Festival this week, actor and screenwriter Leeshon Alexander talks to Mary-Jane Wiltsher about his harrowing fact-based prison film We Are Monster… At 3.30am on a February morning in 2000, inside the...
