Man on Moon is not a mystery - it’s fact
5:16pm Thursday 9th July 2009
Being Neil Armstrong, BBC 4, Sunday, 9pm and Man on the Moon, BBC 4, Sunday, 10pm IF you are one of those people who think the USA faked the moon landings then you might as well not bother reading any further because you won’t like (or believe) what I have written this week.
Review: Public Enemies (15)
Perfectionist director Michael Mann doffs his fedora to Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger in this beautifully-crafted biopic.
Have your say »Review: Blood: The Last Vampire (18)
3:51pm Friday 3rd July 2009
The live-action version of Hiroyuki Kitakubo’s animated feature steps back in time to the 1970s, when the Vietnam War continued to dominate newspaper headlines.
Review: Ice Age 3: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs (U)
3:50pm Friday 3rd July 2009
Dinosaurs ruled the Earth for more than 100 million years, but the third instalment of the computer-animated Ice Age series will struggle to reign at the UK box office for more than two weeks.
Review: Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow, BBC1
3:32pm Friday 3rd July 2009
THERE’S a lot of TV at the moment that's supposed to be funny – Alan Carr’s Chatty Man, and That Mitchell and Webb Look, to name just two.
Interview: Daliso Chaponda
3:29pm Friday 3rd July 2009
THE cream of North West comedy talent will join forces to raise money for Manchester’s Christie cancer hospital at The Lowry, Salford Quays, this weekend.
Interview: Little Boots
3:03pm Friday 3rd July 2009
She’s bright, she's bubbly and she’s from Blackpool. We spoke to electro-pop princess Little Boots who is being billed as the new Kylie.
Interview: Joe Walsh of The Eagles
3:05pm Friday 3rd July 2009
AMERICAN rock legends Eagles are bringing their Long Road Out of Eden tour to the UK and playing two dates in Manchester this month.
Review: Year One (12A)
3:34pm Friday 26th June 2009
What do you call a comedy without a single laugh? The punchline is: Harold Ramis’s ramshackle road movie through the Paleolithic era headlined by Jack Black and Michael Cera, two of the most gifted comic actors of their generations.
Review: Sunshine Cleaning (15)
3:36pm Friday 26th June 2009
Feuding sisters rediscover life amid the detritus of the recently deceased in Christine Jeffs’s portrait of dysfunctional family life.
Review: My Sister’s Keeper (12A)
3:37pm Friday 26th June 2009
Adapted from Jodi Picoult’s heartbreaking bestseller, My Sister’s Keeper is an emotionally wrought and morally complex story of one family’s extraordinary fight to save their own flesh and blood from terrible suffering.
Interview: Laci Endresz of Blackpool Tower Circus
3:06pm Friday 26th June 2009
IF Take That weren’t the nation's favourite boy-turned-man band, the director of Blackpool Tower Circus would give them a job in an instant.
Interview: Dave Twentyman
3:11pm Friday 26th June 2009
DAVE Twentyman, the compere of Blackburn's regular Frog & Bucket comedy night, talks about the highs and lows of life as a comic... and how to deal with hecklers.
Review: Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen (12A)
5:16pm Tuesday 23rd June 2009
The robots in disguise continue their age-old feud in the eagerly-awaited sequel to one of the biggest box office hits of 2007.
Review: Telstar (15)
5:18pm Tuesday 23rd June 2009
Writer-director Nick Moran adapts his own acclaimed stage play for the big screen, documenting the rise and fall of pioneering gay British songwriter and record producer Joe Meek, who stormed to the top of the charts on both sides of the Atlantic in 1962 with the titular track.
Review: Katyn (18)
5:19pm Tuesday 23rd June 2009
Nominated for the 2008 Academy Award as Best Film In A Foreign Language, Andrzej Wajda’s harrowing war opus addresses a controversial chapter in Poland’s recent history.
Review: Coach Trip, Channel 4
5:10pm Tuesday 23rd June 2009
THIS week I have been mostly watching C4's Coach Trip. It’s not a new show, but for some reason it had not been on my radar until now.
Interview: Scott Francis, director of Walking With Dinosaurs
5:02pm Tuesday 23rd June 2009
HOW do you get 15 life-sized dinosaurs to walk around a stage, each remember their cue and interact with other dinosaurs while telling their life story?
Interview: Maureen Nolan
5:08pm Tuesday 23rd June 2009
If you have sisters or brothers then you’ll know the feeling of being compared to your siblings. But imagine having to do a job that three of your sisters had done before you, and to great acclaim. In the part of Mrs Johnstone in the legendary musical Blood Brothers Maureen Nolan is doing just that.
Interview: Shazia Mirza
4:30pm Friday 19th June 2009
Shazia Mirza has won rave reviews for her frank and honest stand-up comedy routines about being a young Muslim woman in Britain. The controversial comedienne spoke to us ahead of her gig in Bolton.
Review: How Sweet It Is.. The Motown Show @ Mechanics, Burnley
11:01am Monday 15th June 2009
The magic of Tamla Motown refuses to die and the packed house at the Mechanics was testament to the fact it is likely to live on forever.
Interview: Hollie Steel
4:55pm Monday 15th June 2009
THIS time eight weeks ago no-one had heard of Hollie Steel.
Review: Looking For Eric (15)
3:09pm Friday 12th June 2009
British director Ken Loach shot his latest bittersweet slice of life on location in Manchester, and scores possibly his most mainstream, feel-good hit to date — except perhaps in Liverpool.
Review: The Hangover (15)
3:11pm Friday 12th June 2009
A stag night goes hilariously awry in The Hangover, the new comedy from Todd Phillips, writer-director of Road Trip and Old School.
Review: The Last House On The Left (18)
3:10pm Friday 12th June 2009
In 1972, writer-director Wes Craven — unknown at the time — shocked audiences with his grisly rape revenge thriller, The Last House On The Left.
Interview: Ken Dodd
2:58pm Friday 12th June 2009
King of comedy Ken Dodd is bringing his Happiness Show to Blackpool and Manchester. He spoke to us about a life in the spotlight.
Interview: Faith Brown
3:01pm Friday 12th June 2009
FAITH Brown is famous for her big voice, her big personality and her even bigger bust.
Review: Big Brother, Channel 4
10:40am Friday 12th June 2009
THE lengths people will go to just to have their 15 minutes of fame really is shocking.
Review: My Life In Verse: Robert Webb, BBC2
10:47am Thursday 11th June 2009
THE half of Mitchell and Webb that isn’t Mitchell is obviously looking to spread his TV wings beyond comedy and shows plenty of promise in this programme in which he traces the story behind TS Eliot’s The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock.
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