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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 …

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 …

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,” …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

A nativity scene featuring the Three Wise Men, a host of seasonal songs and recollections of Christmas past are all important ingredients for a festive show. And this one is no different – on the surface at least. For this performance is brought to you by Sue Timms, the piano-playing, singing spinster who loves sharing her unique take on life …

It could be seen as a rather brave decision to book a musical dating back 60 years as your big festive production, especially if you want to get family audiences through the door. But perennial favourite Singin’ In The Rain is as fresh and vibrant today as the big screen version – famously starring Gene Kelly – was when it …

Punk and glam rock came and went but the overriding musical question throughout the seventies was, ‘Will The Beatles ever get back together?’ And although the speculation died on a cruel December night in 1980 the idolatry lives on. There are countless tribute bands dedicated, it seems, to everyone who has had a hit record but The Bootleg Beatles are …