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Alternative movie posters go on display
Movie posters can capture not only the mood and feeling of the film it is representing, but the time and era in which it is set in. And the images portrayed on posters can become as iconic and important as the films themselves. Consider the film poster of The Exorcist, where the lone priest stands [...]
Exhibition of personal family photographs of late Amy Winehouse will be displayed at London’s Jewish Museum
The family of the late Amy Winehouse have given their permission to make public a series of personal family photographs of the talented singer. Amy, who was just 27 when she passed away in July 2011, was one of the UK’S most gifted and original artists. During her later years in the public spotlight, many [...]
The Best and Worst Dressed at the Met Ball – 2013
The theme for this year’s annual Costume Institute Gala in New York, alternatively known as the Met Ball, was ‘punk chaos’, and whilst some of the stars featured embraced the style, and looked absolutely stunning, many fell short of what is considered to be fashion industry’s chance to show off. Stars in attendance at the [...]
YouTube to start charging for watching videos
Word on the street is that YouTube is about to launch a monthly subscription service for users who want to view their videos. The charges could range from around £1.28 ($1.99 a month) per channel, and it is estimated that between 25 and 50 channels are expected to be made subscription-only, when the service launches. [...]
The Toshiba 55ZL2 glasses free 3D TV
It’s the next natural step in 3D television, glasses free viewing, but at £7,000 a set, is it worth whipping off the specs for the Toshiba 55ZL2, or should we be putting up with looking a little bit silly for a cheaper price? How 3D TV free glasses works And how exactly does a glasses [...]
Anger after Netflix pulls hundreds of movies from its service
Online streaming service Netflix has been bombarded with messages from angry fans after removing close to 2,000 movies. The American provider is not renewing licensing agreements with three of Hollywood’s largest studios, meaning users now have far fewer films to choose from. It comes as the result of Netflix choosing to let movies from MGM, [...]
PRETAIL – The new way of shopping
There’s a new buzz-word in innovative market industry – Pretail, and as it suggests, it denotes services or products that are still at the concept stage, but not yet ready for mainstream retailing. Pretail products have really taken off in the last couple of years, thanks to crowd-funding sites such as Kickstarter, where, budding inventors, [...]
New Reality based TV Channel TLC launches on Sky
Hyped up to the max by our own gorgeous Lisa Snowdon, the new TV channel dubbed TLC, which stands for ‘The Learning Channel’, launches tomorrow on Sky and specialises in ‘extreme’ reality TV. The channel is already hugely popular in the US and lovers of reality telly should get ready to set their recorders or [...]
Energy Advice Line Quarterly Price Review
BUSINESS electricity prices have spiraled by more than 11% on average in the past 12 months, according to figures released by the Energy Advice Line. Firms that signed up to 1, 2 and 3-year energy contracts in the first quarter of 2012 paid an average 9.98p/kWh for electricity, compared to 11.12p/kWh during the same period [...]
Award winning cut price Aldi gin featured on This Morning
Now we are not saying that Holly Willoughby is a cheap date, but she lost out to a spirits taste challenge with Phillip Schofield on today’s This Morning, in which the presenters had to guess which was the low cost drink, and which was the premium brand. In the first taste test, an award winning [...]
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