Review by Leslie Byron Pitt Jeremy Saulnier’s stomach churning thriller; Green Room hits you with the blunt force of a dull cleaver. Its execution is brutal, it's characters timely and its tension more than palpable. Saulnier previously delved into the mundane yet murky effects of amateur revenge in his earlier ...
By Callum Towler I recently re-watched Adam Curtis' seminal BBC documentary series 'The Century Of The Self' - a provocative analysis of how Sigmund Freud's ideas about our irrational desires first spawned the PR industry in the 1920s, through his calculating nephew Edward Bernays, and later seeped into politics as a ...
Sport News 24/7 By Abeer Sharma @abizzle1991 @TLE_Sport The recent serialisation of Steven Gerrard’s new autobiography has brought back memories of that unforgettable Spring in 2014 for Liverpool FC, where the bewitching pace and skill of the Raheem Sterling-Luis Suarez-Daniel Sturridge triumvirate brought the club within a fateful Gerrard slip ...
Sport News 24/7 By David de Winter - Sports Editor @davidjdewinter @TLE_Sport The Rugby World Cup starts next weekend and I am very much looking forward to it. The chance to see the best rugby players in the world battle it out for supremacy in one’s own backyard is not ...
By Jack Peat, Editor of The London Economic A damp afternoon in South East London welcomed Graham Fenton's travelling army of Tynesiders. As Wembley is prepared to host Chelsea and Spurs in the Capital One Cup the quarter final of the FA’s non-league trophy is about to get under way ...
Sport News 24/7 By David de Winter – Sports Editor @davidjdewinter @TLE_Sport This weekend marks the début of the new European Rugby Champions Cup. After intense negotiations the now-defunct Heineken Cup was panned and a new, improved version was approved. Not much has changed; there are now only 20 teams ...
By Chris Brown @vivabrownie Chris argues why you should give the often maligned sport a chance this season If you switch the television on and catch the beginning of an opening NFL game, just stop what you’re doing and allow yourself to absorb the scene for a moment. Notice the ...
Sport News 24/7 By David Edwards Another window closes and Danny Welbeck rocks up just as the shutters close (or about two hours later, by the time we get round to finishing the paperwork). Welbeck To start with our new recruit – I know that Welbeck’s signing has not been ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Liam Gallagher took up the ice bucket challenge and decided to call out his estranged brother Noel to throw some cold water over himself, but this is likely to fuel the fire between the warring siblings. But what better opportunity to revisit some of Liam’s ...