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Blue Valentine – Review
17th December 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
One of the film festival favourites of the year ‘Blue Valentine’ features extraordinary performances from it’s leads Michelle Williams (Cindy) and Ryan Gosling (Dean) as a modern married couple who face obstacles and the unravelling of an initially promising relationship. It’s a lot more heavy duty than it first appears considering its downbeat subject. Exploring the effects of time and small minor events on the outcome of each other perceptions...
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Somewhere – Sofia Coppola Review
16th December 2010 | 0 comments | 1 person likes this
(Supposedly) All eyes fell on a proud Quentin Tarantino who presented Sofia Coppola with prestigious Venice Film Festival 2010 'Gold Lion'. When commenting on his former girlfriend's work he said "...from that first enchanting screening, it grew and grew and grew in both our hearts, in our analysis, in our minds, and in our affections." Coppola returns with 'Somewhere' a film which explores emotionally flawed and lonely characters with a...
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Crepe City III – London Sneaker Festival
10th November 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Any true sneaker and trainer fan would have been at the third installment and event, Crepe City at Bar Music Hall in Shoreditch on Sunday 7Th November 2010. With exclusive chances to buy, sell and swap collectors edition Nike's, Jordan's and Adidas, Crepe City Sneaker festival 3 did not disappoint. A slighter larger venue saw even more treats and goodies available for sneaker fanatics. As well as known favourites...
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Never Let Me Go – Review
3rd November 2010 | 0 comments | 2 people like this
The annual BFI London film festival 2010 showcased the best in international cinema as usual. With the state of British film funding all eyes were on this countries talent, new and established as it's feared both will soon struggle to gain future creative momentum. If it walks like a science fiction movie and talks like a science fiction movie.....it is a science fiction movie?. Perhaps not, as 'Never Let Me...
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Lunar Youth Interview
19th October 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Simon (Guitar and Vocals)
The London city showcase festival is a great way to discover new live music, in fact its how I found you guys. Tell us about your experience of it?We really enjoyed the show. It was a real pleasure to meet the host - the esteemed John Kennedy of XFM whose show X-posure has been a band favourite for years.So how did Lunar... -
Mary and Max
17th September 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Having previously won an Academy Award for his directorial work on animation Harvie Krumpet, Adam Elliot brings us clay animation film piece ‘Mary and Max’. On initial glance it’s give the impression of a light-hearted children’s film but it touches on serious mature themes usually tackled by adult films including depression, kleptomania, alcoholism and suicide. "The thing is, even though these are blobs of plasticine, I want people to identify...
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Offset Festival 2010
15th September 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Offset Festival 2010 took place at Hainault Forest, London on Saturday 4thSeptember. Only in it’s third year the festival has already seen established and rising live acts such as The Maccabees, The Young Knives, Metronomy, Gang of Four, The Horrors, The Futureheads, The xx, Bombay Bicycle Club and The Slits grace their stages. The last trickle of summer festivals are seeing out the summer and it’s bittersweet on Saturday when...
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Print vs Digital: A Fashion Face-off?
13th September 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
The internet has changed how and where we access ever-changing fashion updates and even how we buy clothes. This means print publications have to face the challenge of convincing readership to buy and subscribe to print publications because they can offer content that can’t be found online.
Once the extremely exclusive domain of the high priests of the fashion world, such as buyers, journalists, a-list celebrities and trend spotters, fashion shows... -
Little London Fields Festival 2010
12th August 2010 | 2 comments | 1 person likes this
Saturday 7th August 2010 and I’m on my way down Little London Fields Festival, the weather as erratic as can be expected from a British summer despite scorching previous weekends. I’m still overly enthusiastic in very short denim shorts and a hat that suggests I’m going to Brighton beach not an east London park. It’s heaving with the cool and beautiful before me and my friends even enter the park,...
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Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
27th July 2010 | 1 comments | 1 person likes this
It’s a mid summer evening in Soho Central London and the great and the good turn out to the London Premiere of Jan Kounen’s silver screen adaptation/biopic of famed volatile affair between revolutionary female fashion designer Coco Chanel (Anna Mouglalis) and seminal composer Igor Stravinsky (Mads Mikkelsen). Nods to Chanel were seen in the classic quilted handbags found on arms of gorgeous girls to simple monochrome tone outfits of elegant...
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Von Von Lamunu
Von Von Lamunu is a freelance journalist based in London, first cutting her teeth at London College of Communication before leaving and diving headfirst into producing pieces at fashion and music magazines such as Fault Magazine and IDOL Magazine. With previous education in Film and English Literature as well as a keen interest in Art, writing is both a passion and challenge she enjoys rises to. Expect a variety of fashion, film, music and event reviews from across Britain and Europe.
