What’s the best thing to do when you’re hungover on January 1? Write your top ten films of the year before of course! So here we go 10 to 1, Top of the Pops style. 10. Manson Family Vacation Most normal people have their Manson Family obsessed period when they’re a teenager, I had mine…
I was feeling a little bit nervous about meeting the actors for Night Owls that sunny Texas afternoon at South by South West. Mostly because at the Q&A after the premiere the night before, both actors mercilessly layed into one guy who made an off the cuff comment about not seeing much online about the…
Appropriate Behaviour tells the story of Shirin (Desiree Akhavan) as she picks up her pieces after breaking up with girlfriend Maxine (Rebecca Henderson). The story is told through flashbacks of the arc of the relationship alongside her Shirin getting through the aftermath, supported by best friend Crystal (Halley Feiffer). The film is smart, aware and…
There has been a lot of 90’s nostalgia over the last few years, primarily for music. Bands such as Neutral Milk Hotel, My Bloody Valentine and Pulp have played very successful comeback shows, fuelled by fans wanting to revisit their former years. This nostalgia has crept into TV and film with Twin Peaks and now…
We all have our favourite teen movies that resonate with us on a personal level. We watched them in our youth, at sleepovers with friends, or at the movies imbibing popcorn whilst trying to forget our own teenage struggles. There is something so comforting about teen movies, they’re the perfect films to watch when you’re…
Kelly (Juliette Lewis) has just had a baby and moved to a new neighbourhood, she is struggling to connect with her baby, make friends and thinks her husband could be cheating on her. Along comes Cal (Jonny Weston), a sharp talking, filthy minded and reckless teenager, trying to come to terms with losing the use…
After breaking up with her boyfriend and losing her job and home, a desperate Eleanor (Leighton Meester) lies convincingly to land a job as a nanny to a gifted 13-year-old boy named Reggie (Julian Shatkin). Eleanor is in her mid 20’s and at a loss, she doesn’t know what to do with herself and takes…
Of Montreal is the brain child of Kevin Barnes, the music creates a fantastical cartoon universe, complex layers of music twist and turn whilst Kevin spouts beautiful formed, willfully honest and emotionally dense lyrics. The band started in the late 90’s connected to the Elephant 6 scene, which also spouted Neutral Milk Hotel (Jeff Mangum…
An adaptation of the graphic novel written by Coco Moodysson, We Are the Best! is a rather charming portrayal of three teenage girls in 1980s Stockholm who decide to form a punk band. Bobo (Mira Barkhammar) and Klara (Mira Grosin) are best friends who decide to form a punk band, despite everyone telling them…
Based on the James Franco penned short stories book of the same name, Palo Alto focuses on the lives of teenagers April (Emma Roberts), Fred (Nat Wolff) Teddy (Jack Kilmer – relative newcomer and yes Val Kilmer’s son) and Emily (Zoe Levin) as they make their way through teenage life, partying, working in libraries, messing…
God Help The Girl has a relatively long history, starting with Belle and Sebastian’s Stuart Murdoch first writing a song in 2003. Straight away he knew this wasn’t a Belle and Sebastian song, and felt it was destined for another project. He wrote more songs and slowly the three main characters Eve, James and Cassie…
OBVIOUS CHILD is the story of unapologetic Brooklyn comedian Donna Stern (Jenny Slate), a twenty-something loose cannon who gets dumped, fired and pregnant in quick succession. Better at cracking jokes about her flatulence and the contents of her knickers in her weekly stand-up routine than doing her taxes, Donna has a lot of growing up to…
David Wain is a funny man, from his early days as part of MTV’s The State and Wet Hot American Summer, to the more recent Children’s Hospital, Role Models and Wanderlust. This movie is his fourth big screen directorial outing and his fourth to be launched at Sundance Film Festival. They Came Together written with…
When it was announced that they were going to make a movie based on Frank Sidebottom and that Fassbender was going to play him I like most people was like whoa! Frank Sidebottom, the cult icon was famed for wearing a big papier mache head, being friends with Little Frank, being from Timperley, singing Beatles…
Lady luck were an awesome London based jewellers, who closed their doors a few years ago. To celebrate the anniversary of the launch of Lady Luck’s personalised jewellery collection, they’ve brought back six of their best selling and much loved designs! You can order any of these styles with the wording of your choice as…
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