Hunger
Hunger stars Michael Fassbender as Bobby Sands, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) member who led the 1981 hunger strike where Republican inmates in the Maze prison tried to win
Watchmen – Interview with Billy Crudup
Billy Crudup reckons that the biggest hurdle he had to overcome during the filming of Watchmen was getting over the feeling that he looked ridiculous. To create Dr Manhattan, the
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
If any book could benefit from a big screen adaptation, surely John Boyne's 2005 fable is ripe for the picking. Boyne created a wonderful plot premise: Bruno, a nine-year-old German
Interview with Greg Wilson
Back in ‘83, Greg Wilson was the first man to mix two records together live on television under the scrutiny of The Tube audience and a smug, bemused, aviator-sporting Jools
Interview with Peter Bjorn & John
“Peter Bjorn and John are complete jokers,” a man In The Know informs me ahead of chatting to one third of Sweden’s most thrilling indie-pop three-piece. “One of the few
Phosphorescent – To Willie
Willie Nelson knows pain. He’s been through it, he’s wallowed in it, he’s come out the other side of it. Though to younger listeners he may come across as a
Ida Maria – Fortress Around My Heart
There are some pop outfits that reek of a desperation that’s almost tangible. Indie-popettes that, 5 years ago, would have been gyrating onstage at the MTV Awards in a pair
Get Smart
Get Smart is a remake of the satirical 60s sitcom that tracks the adventures of a bumbling American spy, and his more competent female partner, Agent 99. The film provides
Handsome Furs – Face Control
Handsome Furs’ first effort Plague Park, released two years ago, was all too quickly dismissed as a hobby album for Wolf Parade’s Dan Boeckner, the result of a man taking
Franz Ferdinand – Tonight…
Glasgow’s finest four-pack of vaudevillian dandies claim Tonight, Franz Ferdinand, their third album, is an aural journey through a hedonistic night out painting the town orange. From the hushed beginning
The Mighty Stef – 100 Midnights
The Mighty Stef is something of an anomaly on the current indie-wasteland that is the Irish music scene. His Dublin roots are ever prevalent in his songs’ subject matter, and
Hotel for Dogs – Interview with Lisa Kudrow
There’s nothing like winning an Emmy award for a role in a massively popular sitcom to put an actress in her pigeonhole. The ghost of Phoebe Buffay haunted Lisa Kudrow
Wintersleep Interview
When Wintersleep’s Paul Murphy notes that “the interest level has been pretty gradual” in his Nova Scotia band it seems an incongruous statement for any 21st century Canadian widescreen indie
Burn After Reading
The Coen Brothers return with a comedic spy-thriller plotline involving disgraced CIA analyst Osbourne Cox (John Malkovich), his wife Katie (Tilda Swinton), her lover (George Clooney), two simple gym employees