HMV files for administration, with 2000 job losses

This Christmas HMV has fallen victim slump in sales on the UK high street and customer changing habits including music streaming, and is filing for administration for the second time in six years, as shopper footfall dropped 3.1 per cent on Boxing Day compared with last year. His Master’s Voice, started trading in 1921, has…

Male dominated Hollywood golden years

The 1943 Western The Outlaw, while making the Texan Aviator and film mogul Howard Hughes became infatuated on its star Jane Russell’s breasts. Hughes had fired the film’s previous director, Howard Hawks, for not focusing sufficiently on Russell’s cleavage and decided to direct it himself. His first job was to apply his aeronautical engineering expertise…

Sondra Locke Actress dies aged 74

  Actress Sondra Locke, famous for making six movies with Clint Eastwood, has died at the age of 74. She earned an Oscar nomination for her first film, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, in 1968. Locke however, became romantically involved with Eastwood whilst making The Outlaw Josey Wales in 1975, but later went on…

“Widows” – dark, devious, corrupt, nasty enchanting

Viola Davis takes the reins as the star of this sadistic, sarcastic and slightly overblown melodrama about crooks in trouble. Her sidekick and lover/husband, played by the ever dynamic Liam Neeson is a devious and mesmerizing conman who she finds hugely difficult to handle emotionally – all will be revealed when you see the film!…

Not so much a spider’s web as a huge heavy industrial net

Stars Claire Foy, Sverrir Gudnason, Keith Stanfield. Stieg Larrson’s now familiar storylines, this one created together with David Lagercrantz, creates a melancholic saga with violence, angst, moody broody people and generally dark sinners who all have a woman on their case – Lisbeth Salander. Already known to Journalist Mikael Blomkuist, Lisbeth is subject of and…

Stars in her eyes

Montreal born Canadian actress Emmanuelle Chriqui first appeared in a McDonald’s commercial when she was 10, and known for her performance on HBO’s Entourage as Sloan McQuewick, as well as Dalia, Adam Sandlers’s love interest character in You Don’t Mess with the Zohan. Her acting career began with parts in television series after which she…

Spiderman creator Stan Lee dies at 95

Stan Lee, the legendary writer, editor and published of Marvel Comics died at Cedars-Sinal Medical Centre in Los Angeles . He was 95. His career began at Marvel in the 1960s, and was known for giving Marvel superheroes personalities in addition to their power. He wrote, art-directed and edited most of Marvel’s series and newspaper…

Blue Iguana

BLUE IGUANA ……..PREPARE TO IRREGIOUSLY GIGGLE AT THIS IRRELIGIOUSLY GIGGLISH DARK COMEDY OF A MOVIE…..RUNNING TIME 97 MINS, GENRE – CRIME CAPER. SOLD IN 40 STATES IN THE USA. NOW AVAILABLE IN THE UK. Video on Demand and the DVD Market is the key to accessing this unforgettable farce of a story, Rated 15. Blue…