This season: “Bananas”, “Battle Royale”, “Broadway Danny Rose”, “Cul De Sac”, “Dark City”, “Date Night”, “Ed Wood”, “Everyone Says I Love You”, “Greenberg”, “Lovely and Amazing”, “Radio Days”, “Repulsion”, “Shutter Island”, “Sunshine Cleaning”, “The Tenant”, “Toy Story 3” and “Zelig”.

MattFest is back, and it’s bigger and better than ever. September 4th, 2010. Bletchingly, Surrey.

MATTfest is an annual charity music festival tradition supporting the Tadworth Children’s Trust, Alliance for Lupus Research, and Surrey Air Ambulances.

This season: “American Pie 3”, “Cemetery Junction”, “Dersu Uzala”, “Extract”, “Four Lions”, “Heavenly Creatures”, “I Love You, Man”, “Inception”, “Kickass”, “Oedipus Wrecks”, “Paranormal Activity”, “The Prestige”, “Primer”, “Vanilla Sky” and “Win a Date with Tad Hamilton”.

Billed as the British Gran Torino, expectations for director Daniel Barber to deliver are already steeped high. Directed and starring Clint Eastwood at his steely best, Torino’s dark dealings with violent gang culture and vigilante justice marked it out as a hit success. With Harry Brown being Barber’s first feature, it’s difficult to anticipate what to expect, but if like me you expect to see a rehashing of Torino in an different setting then you are in for a bit of a shock. For what Barber does is take the …

“PhD student Matt Barlow has taken his love of extreme mountain-biking to a whole new level. Twenty-seven year old Matt, who is currently studying sports psychology at Bangor University, has teamed up with local production company Bamboo Chicken TV to create a film about his biking endeavours. Aptly named ‘Short Cut,’ the film follows Matt as he takes an unusual route home from the office one day…”

The last EVE with guest DJ KITO. A student run night at SMACK club, Leamington Spa. 11pm-3am. All proceeds go to Save the Children. £5 entry. Drink deals available.

Battle of the Bands 2010 SEMI-FINAL coverage: featuring band photos, live tracks, performance photos, and videos from Fourth Wave, Narwhals, 3=Car, Cannibal Fish, and Lilac Joke.

“I have nurtured a particular strong attachment to photography depicting scenes of decadence, discontent, and abandonment, however I have a very broad-minded and experimental attitude to my own creations. As a result, the plenitude of seedy, backstreet scenes in my work are offset by my frequent forays into ‘light graffiti’ – creating an image in a long exposure by manually introducing lightsources…”

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before i joined the force my partner jones worked with a guy named cookie. weird name not sure if that was his real name or a nickname or what. something cook could be the original version. i dont know. anyway according to jones cookie was a …