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It was August 2002, and 17 year old Leona was curled on a trolley in A&E, rocking back and forth with pain, no energy left to cry anymore.  She had been admitted the night before with debilitating pain in her lower abdomen.  This was…

"If you know what's good!"  So goes the opening line to Justin Timberlake's single "Filthy", the first off his upcoming album Man In The Woods and his first since the dull yet catchy hit "Can't Stop The Feeling!". There was a time when…

In 2007, things for Nine Inch Nails fans were getting weird: songs were found on flash drives in venue bathrooms, burner phones were being handed out from the backs of vans that led to anti-establishment rallies, a secret show and a…

Star Wars is unquestionably a film lessened by everything that has come after it. For one, we can’t even simply refer to it as Star Wars; it has to be labelled Episode IV: A New Hope. This is to say nothing of how every frame, every shot…

What were you up to in 2004? Our jeans were all a little bit baggier then, for sure, and hair straightening was revolutionised by the GHD; an item that would help men and women shape the fringe that placed them in the emo or preppy…

Michael Mann’s film adaptation of Miami Vice is ten years old as of July 28th.  It’s fair to say that Vice the movie didn’t quite achieve a stranglehold on the zeitgeist the way its television progenitor did back in the 80s.  The TV show,…

Warning - Spoiler for both novel and adaptation of Never Let Me Go “I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as…

Jim Henson was dead: to begin with. This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate. Published in 1843, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is among the most adapted stories to Film…

In the final part of Eoin Rogers' series on the history of the comic books, he looks at the invasion of British writers and it's consequences. Alan Moore’s huge critical success with Watchmen was to usher in an entire new wave…

In this second article on Great Movie Fight Scenes I'll be looking at the slugfest finale to Richard Donner's buddy-cop spectacular, Lethal Weapon. In this sequence street-crazy cop on the edge Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) takes on the…