The first teaser trailer for Gareth Edwards’ version of the Japanese classic Godzilla has been released. Edwards, whose parents are from Usk and Pontypool, made his feature-debut film Monsters for £10,000 in South America, running into trouble while filming from local drug cartels . The film was a big success and led to Legendary Pictures offering him the chance to …
Read More »Seats? Whoever took the decision to make this an all-seater gig was glaringly mistaken. No one sat on them and it was the never-ending task of the officious stewards to constantly herd people back into their allocated spaces in a concert that cried out for freedom of movement. 10cc and Status Quo might seem strange bedfellows but they were quite …
Read More »Earlier this year I heard a comic on the radio who made me laugh as well as having a kick – his name was Trevor Noah and I hadn’t heard of him, but I have now and, if you haven’t, you will soon. If the young South African comic can keep this up, he’s a comedian on the rise. And …
Read More »This entire movie is a car chase and Ethan Hawke is your ex-racing driver at the wheel. At the end of the line controlling him is The Voice, played by the chin of veteran actor Jon Voight. Hawke’s Brent Magna is a NASCAR racer who will have to keep doing what he’s told or his kidnapped wife Leanne (Rebecca Budig) …
Read More »Love them or loathe them, everyone it seems has an opinion on Hanson. With over 20 years in the business, Hanson have finally come to Cardiff. Ever since their breakthrough (and biggest) hit MmmBop became the sound of ‘97, they have released album after album of top quality songs. The group made up of the ever smiling brothers Isaac, Taylor …
Read More »After starring in Parker and Hummingbird, Jason Statham returns for the third time this year in another one-word, testosterone-fuelled movie. This time he’s playing DEA agent Phil Broker, whose quiet family life is doomed once he crosses paths with meth man Gator (James Franco) and his gang of drug traffickers. “I’m going to read my little girl a bedtime story,” …
Read More »Like an American alternative to our own Mike Leigh, Alexander Payne’s movies take time to let their mature stars burrow under your skin. He works with great actors, too – Jack Nicholson (About Schmidt – 2002), Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church (Sideways – 2004) and George Clooney (The Descendants – 2012). Given that the latter two films earned Payne …
Read More »Former Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe took The Woman in Black to the limits of its 12A certificate last year – now he’s pushing this 15 all the way to borderline 18. Opening in 1943, it’s a timeless freshers’ story about awkwardness and cockiness. Winning a place at Columbia University leads future poet Allen Ginsberg (Radcliffe) into a destructive social …
Read More »Just a week after Tom Hanks reached deep into Walt Disney’s heart in Saving Mr Banks, the studio’s latest blockbuster animation arrives as pure as snow. And Frozen is a fabulously festive, funny and enjoyable return to form that Walt would surely have adored. Haunted by how her ability to create ice and snow from her fingertips once nearly killed …
Read More »Only Men Aloud are fighting fit for their Christmas tour. And so they should be given they’ve been getting in shape – both individually and for their new show at Dragon Cross Fit in Cardiff. It sounds like that the newly slimmed down eight piece group have been making quite the impression with the gym goers themselves. “We spent a …
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