The Walking Dead: Season 3, Episode 8 - "Made To Suffer"
One of the main attributes of being an awful blogger is never updating your blog; something I focus my entire ethos on. I post up one entry a year and leave the masses gagging for more, salivating at...
View ArticleLincolnshire Band Rita Payne Make A Noise On The Folk Scene
What are you listening to at the moment? Is there any folk music on your iPod? Recent years have seen a huge surge in the popularisation of folk and country music in the UK chart scene. Two genres that...
View ArticleAsylum Has Finally Gone To The Next Level
Thank our lucky monsignors. After six episodes of brilliant moments drowned in narcissistic unintelligible fluff, American Horror Story Asylum has stepped its bloody game up and blown my absolute...
View ArticleAn Interview with Homeland's Navid Negahban
If you haven't been watching Homeland, you are the only one. The hit Showtime drama has gone global, sweeping up at last year's Emmys and cementing itself firmly on the TV planners of an entire planet....
View ArticleGolden Globes 2013: Best and Worst Dressed
It's award season! Let's all breathe a collective sigh of, "Hurrah, coffee and cigarettes!" as we stay up until 4am laughing, judging, crying, poking and 'ooooh-ing'. It's my favourite time of the...
View ArticleThe Impossible (2012) Review
Everyone remembers where they were on December 26th 2004 when a tsunami hit Thailand causing mass fatalities. It was boxing day and I was at my aunt's house watching The Day After Tomorrow. The movie...
View ArticleLife of Pi (2012) Review
Life of Pi is the Oscar nominated epic tale of disaster on the high seas - with added zoo animals - from Academy Award winning director Ang Lee (Memoirs of a Geisha, Brokeback Mountain.)Whether you've...
View ArticleLet's All Be Free Film Festival
Freedom is an exciting word. I find it has a temptation to it, as if it were an offer of an ever disintegrating promise. I'm liberated by the thought of freedom - to have complete control of one's own...
View ArticleSilver Linings Playbook (2012) Review
Silver Linings Playbook is not what you expect. Or at least it's not what I expected. I thought, okay, we have Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence and some dancing; this is a romantic comedy in which two...
View ArticleThe Walking Dead Survival Kit: 8 Essentials
The Walking Dead is one of the most popular shows on television, proving to be one of AMC and FX's greatest hits. After a dramatic mid-season finale almost two months ago, The Walking Dead returns to...
View ArticleA Conversation with GCB's Mark Deklin
Normally I would write an introduction here and explain who I've interviewed. I'd give a little recap of their career, what they've recently appeared in and so on - but that is not necessary here....
View ArticleBAFTAs 2013: Best Dressed
On this miserable London evening of February 10th, Hollywood has flocked to Covent Garden to celebrate the best of this year's cinematic triumphs; in particular the quality of British cinema. Well, I...
View ArticleFilm Review: Argo (2012) - Ben Affleck's Baby
Argo is a film directed by Ben Affleck, starring Ben Affleck, gestated for nine months and pushed out in a brutal Alien-esque type scenario by Ben Affleck. Okay it's directed by and starring him but...
View ArticleI U SHE: Manchester's Biggest Charity Nights
This week I sit down with Lisa Rooney, the woman behind I U SHE, runners of a string of successful charity nights across Manchester. The nights are garnering a wealth of support from local businesses...
View ArticleThe Walking Dead: Season 3, Episodes 9 and 10
After a lengthy hiatus since December, the last couple of weeks have seen The Walking Dead return to our screens thank God. It's so good to have it back, and to start with the bang that episodes nine...
View ArticleDjango Unchained Review
Django Unchained (2012) is the eighth movie from writer director Quentin Tarantino. It tells the tale of Django (Jamie Foxx), a freed slave who embarks on a journey through America's deep south with...
View ArticleOscars 2013: Best and Worst Dressed
Oscars, Oscars, Oscars! Time to slate the horrors and jizz over the beauties. Or at least that's the way it goes in my house. Blog on the Rails runs through the fashion do's and the fashion do not take...
View ArticleMusic's Next Big Thing: An Interview with of Verona
Are you familiar with of Verona? If not, you may be forgiven... but only this once. The Los Angeles band is comprised of singer / songwriter Mandi Perkins, drummer Jeff Sojka and Dillon Pace on keys...
View ArticleMuch Ado About Nothing: Trailer
Whedon fans - halt! You need to see this. The first trailer for Joss Whedon's much anticipated Much Ado About Nothing has been released and it's every bit as tantilising and titillating as I had...
View ArticlePhantom of the Opera Nominated For Olivier Award
For twenty seven years Andrew Lloyd Webber's timeless production of Phantom of the Opera has mesmerised audiences at Her Majesty's Theatre. Based on the novel Le Fantom de l'Opéra by Gaston Leroux, its...
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