Articles in the Culture Category
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Get Smart is a comedy based on the 1965 hit US series of the same name. The film follows Maxwell Smart (Steve Carell), a top analyst of the US Secret Service turned spy, and Agent 99 (Anne Hathaway) as they’re sent on a mission together after all the other agents identities are compromised.
Get smart is an amusing film with some very well known actors and actresses. Most of the laughs are centred around Carell, so it’s lucky he is on the screen a lot. Anne Hathaway is …
Literature »
She realised that a man sitting on the bench just in front of her was the man in the book shop. The shoes started to misbehave. It was too late to turn back, she would feel a fool ‘turning on her heels’ just as she approached him. She just needed to keep her nerve long enough to make it past him. But the shoes weren’t having any of it. Just as he looked up and smiled at her in recognition, snap went the right heel and over she went right …
Literature »
Trespassing through the destroyed park
My eyes alert
My muscles tense
This once playground for friends and lovers
Is lost to young control
Mistreated and misused
The new breed reigns
Out of danger and free to roam
The Web »
Apparently it’s the next big thing, celebs are on it, corporations are on it, and now so is the Students’ Union.. but what is it?
Is it easy to do? Ridiculously so. Log on to twitter.com, open an account, and seconds later you can tweet.
What’s a tweet? A 140-character posting, resembling Facebook’s status updates (where it asks: What are you doing right now?). If 140 characters aren’t enough for your profound musings, just tweet again.
Who reads it? Whichever fellow tweeters choose to “follow” you. You can also “follow” other users. This …
Literature, The Vent »
Last night
I rubbed elbows with the moon
Told the stars my secrets
But the clouds knew
What weighed on my heavy heart
Film »
This is the film which should have won Denzel Washington his Best Actor Oscar. Washington portrays Rubin ‘The Hurricane’ Carter, an American Middleweight boxer who was wrongly accused of murder and wrongly imprisoned for 20 years. Before you think I’ve ruined the film for you, it’s all based on true events.
The film takes you deep into the unstable mindset of The Hurricane, and shows the bond he makes with a young male (Vicellous Reon Shannon), and his Canadian teachers, and their fight against a racist establishment profiting on Carter being …
Film »
Paul Rudd and Seann William Scott star in ‘Role Models’ as Danny and Wheeler, two salesmen who trash a company truck on an energy drink-fuelled bender. Upon their arrest, the court gives them a choice: Jail, or spend 150 hours with a mentorship program. After one day with the kids, however, jail doesn’t look half bad. Once the center’s ex-con director (Jane Lynch) gives them an ultimatum, Danny and Wheeler are forced to tailor their brand of immature wisdom to their charges, Augie (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) and Ronnie (Bobb’e J. Thompson). …
Film »
Lazy court-process clerk and stoner Dale Denton (Seth Rogen) has only one reason to visit his equally lazy dealer Saul Silver (James ‘Spiderman’ Franco): to purchase weed, specifically, a rare new strain called Pineapple Express. But when Dale becomes the only witness to a murder by a crooked cop and the city’s most dangerous drug lord, Dale finds another reason to visit Saul: to make themselves pretty scarce.
As Dale and Saul run for their lives, they quickly discover that they’re not suffering from weed-fuelled paranoia: incredibly, the bad guys really …
Gaming »
Xbox 360, PS3. RRP: £49.99
Takedowns, takedowns, takedowns. That is all the description you need for this game. If three blokes surround you; not a problem. With a few simple button taps, one bloke’s head crashes into a post, one guy careers off a balcony, and the other gets to taste the metal pole he has stupidly tried adding to your facial structure. So satisfying. Set before the first film, The Bourne Conspiracy throws you straight in the action. Other than the amazing fighting controls, you can also shoot, and drive. …
Gaming, Music »
X360,PS3. RRP: £129
£129.99 I hear you ask. That is the big question when it comes to this game. Is it worth spunking over a hundred quid on one game? Yes, to put in simple terms. What you get for your money is the game, guitar, microphone and the brilliantly fun drums, which alone are worth the dollar spent. Compared to the massively successful Guitar Hero, Rockband is a different class. It is a great activity to get your mates round for a quiet night in, pre-pub drink or, something to …
