Comedian Ken Cheng won the 10th annual award from TV Channel Dave for the Funniest Joke Of The Fringe with the line: “I’m not a fan of the new pound coin, but then again, I hate all change.“ The joke, from his show Ken Cheng: Chinese Comedian, won 33 per cent of a public vote […]
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V Festival 2017: Jay Z pays moving tribute to Linkin Park’s Chester Bennington
[unable to retrieve full-text content] JAY Z closed his V Festival set last night with a poignant tribute to Chester Bennington, with whom he had previously collaborated. Daily Express :: Entertainment Feed
2 killed as storm strikes Austrian firefighter festival (VIDEO)
Published time: 19 Aug, 2017 09:25 A firefighters’ festival in Austria ended in tragedy when a violent storm caused a tent to collapse, killing two people and injuring dozens more. Volunteers from the St Johann am Walde Fire Department had gathered on Friday for an annual celebration in Austria’s upper district of Braunau am Inn […]
‘Patti Cake$’ and the Pitfalls of Film Festival Buzz
The danger of coming into the world as a “film festival sensation” is that, for all the value of that initial buzz, the people who create it represent only a fraction of the people who will actually see it. The rest of the movie-going public will instead experience the film outside of that rarified air, […]
Free London festival, stylish dining and more: Things to do this week
DO Save your pennies in London this weekend. Spotlight, the festival of free, open-air music and entertainment, is back in the capital on Saturday from 12 till 6pm. Head to Seven Dials shopping and food destination in Covent Garden for a traffic-free day of song and dance on the pop-up lawn. Glam up at the […]
‘Dead Shack’ Review: Exploding Heads, Zombie Carnage, and Plenty of Dad Jokes [Fantasia Film Festival]
For fans of chuckle-happy zombie schlock, I present to you Peter Ricq’s Dead Shack, a scrappy Sam-Raimi-esque vision birthed from cabin-in-the-woods campfire stories. Laughs are bloody and sentiments family-driven, but one of the more impressive aspects is a low-budget production that masks shoestring restraints (“shoestring” being relative). Gore effects are squeamish and pulpy, unblemished by budgetary […]
‘Another WolfCop’ Review: B-Movie Madness Reigns Supreme in a Very Silly Sequel [Fantasia Film Festival]
Another WolfCop? Yes. “Another” means that director Lowell Dean’s howlin’ mad midnighter is indeed a sequel, and a ravenous one at that. Back again is Leo Fafard, playing Canada’s favorite donut-scarfing Lycan lawman; a fluffy beast whose moonlight methods are animalistic to the max. Criminals find themselves torn limb from limb with WolfCop once again […]
Goodwood Festival: Tattoos and fake tan galore race-goers strip down to flash the flesh
The Qatar Goodwood Festival kicked off today with a bang; hundreds of people flocked to the racecourse in Chichester for a day of fun in the sunshine. The Group 1 Qatar Goodwood Cup – worth £500,000 – was the race to watch, but people will be more distracted by the race-goers. The official dress code […]
22,000 people had to be evacuated from a Barcelona music festival after a massive stage fire
Thomson Reuters More than 22,000 people were evacuated from an electronic music festival in Barcelona on Saturday night after a huge fire broke out on one of the stages during a sequence of the show involving fireworks, emergency services said. They said no one was injured. Footage circulated on social media showed big flames leaping […]
Massive Barcelona festival fire evacuates 22,000 (VIDEOS)
Published time: 29 Jul, 2017 23:00 Edited time: 30 Jul, 2017 00:53 Videos of a huge fire engulfing a music festival stage in Barcelona, Spain went viral on social media as organizers said up to 22,000 people were evacuated from the grounds as a result. The fire broke out Saturday night at the Tomorrowland Unite […]
