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- LIVE: Japandroids @ The Harley, 17/05/2010
Japandroids have mastered combining garage rock with a hint of pop-punk and turn out four-minute bursts of irresistible noise. Given their touring history, chances are they'll be back soon. Don't miss out.
- The Futureheads @ Leadmill, 03/05/2010
In fourth album territory now, it is fitting to ask what happened to The Futureheads. Their first album, released in 2004, was the sound of a band who had found a balance between straight indie-rock and punk.
Lifestyle & Fashion
Features
- Features
- 'Leading a normal life is not possible for me any more'
Nearly two years after peacefully demonstrating against a Presidential decree, Forge Press speaks to Minsk protester, Alies Stralsou, about his restricted freedoms.
- A Real Fashion Statement
Forge Press takes a closer look into the world of ethical products, and the rising success of Fairtrade trainer brand Veja, to discover that conscience-free fashion doesn't have to be purse-punishing.
- Binge Drinking Busted
Forge Press meets the daring participants of a three-week long 'alcohol experiment' to discover the benefits of life without booze.
- Cake, craft and community: Sheffield's new WI takes off
Forge Press visited Sheffield's new WI to find out why it's belly dancing and Bellini, not Jam and Jerusalem which makes it tick.
- Calling the city to God
An invitation to attend a service at St. Thomas' Church Philadelphia provided Forge Press with an invaluable insight into Christian worship.
- Dancers, warriors and storytellers: International Cultural Evening 2010
Celebrating Sheffield University's cultural diversity, the International Cultural Evening is an unmissable event. Forge Press went along to find out more.
- Hunted by the Taliban: one student's search for safety
Sheffield student Aman talks to Forge Press
about his escape from the Taliban and finding safety on British shores.
- Overqualified and underpaid: new graduates feel the pinch
With graduates facing the worst jobs market in recent history, Forge Press catches up with recent university leavers stuck in the vicious cycle of low-skill work.
- Sketching Parliament's Scandals
Change may be afoot at Westminster, but cartoonist Gary Jenkinson-Graham is eager not to let us forget the scandals of last year. Forge Press finds out more.
Blogs & Comment
Ents and Arts: Music
Ents and Arts: Games
- Games
- Hands On: Kinect for the Xbox 360
Recently we got a chance to grapple with Microsoft's latest killer accessory, Kinect. But by removing any sort of controller from the Kinect experience, is Microsoft making the logical next step towards total gaming accessibility, or a huge mistake?
- Review: Avatar [the game]
So you've seen the film, you've bought the DVD, but you STILL want to drop another 20+ hours into the game. Where to turn?
- Review: Spongebob Boating Bash
Taking a leaf, if not chapter and verse, from the brilliant Mario Kart series, Boating Bash takes a pretty solid formula and tweaks it enough to warrant it's existence.
- Review: The Sims 3
A year on and the game has yet to drop in price. This must mean it's really really good. Well, not quite.
Ents: Arts
- Arts
- Interview: Comic Book Heroes
Amy Patricia Smith meets two University of Sheffield graduates who have spent the last two years producing a short graphic novella.
- Interview: Hilary Mantel
Lucie Boase talks to Booker Prize Winner and Sheffield University alumni Hilary Mantel.
- Preview: Dancing to Darwin
It is three principles of the natural world that inspire the movement and choreography of the Rambert Dance Company’s upcoming show.
- Review: A Picture Of Us?
This illustration of identity in British art spans works from the 19th century to the present.
- Review: A Week In December
A Week in December is an ambitious attempt to capture every aspect of modern British life.
- Review: Alice
Laura Wade doesn’t open her version of Alice in Wonderland with a riverbank and a rabbit hole. Instead, it opens at a funeral wake in Sheffield (perhaps not that surprising, since Wade grew up here).
- Review: An Evening of Poetry
An evening of poetry was a showcase of work by those who have written for the English Department’s online magazine Route 57.
- Review: Beauty and the Beast
This trip to the theatre proved to be incredibly nostalgic (as Disney musicals always are).
- Review: Cracks
A pity this little known play has hardly managed to get the same attention as Mr Sherman's seminal work Bent, so more kudos for SutCo's choice of play and cast.
- Review: Eddie Izzard
Eddie Izzard managed to keep the audience laughing and always succeeded in returning to the point he was trying to make.
- Review: Food Glorious Food
Whether it’s a takeaway pizza, a traditional Sunday roast or something finer like a slow poached fillet of lamb, we all have a favourite meal.
- Review: Friday Night with The Tuesday Poets
The whole evening allowed for a unique insight into human experience, becoming a fully formed living anthology.
- Review: Hogarth at the Graves Gallery
Shedding light on the evolution of the human condition with humour and gravitas.
- Review: Immaculate
A single working girl with a suspicious trade finds out she’s pregnant.
- Review: Opus and Word Life
This style of poetry is effective in explosive instances.
- Review: Regeneration
A play which deals with the anguish and futility of war and the psychological harm inflicted upon an entire generation of young men.
- Review: Still Waiting
Few lives are stranger than fiction. So finding a creative hook amongst the tedium of being a snoring, stinking, stropping human isn’t easy.
- Review: The Comedy of Change
Last issue we brought you a preview of the Rambert Company’s Comedy of Change, where one of the show’s science consultants revealed the inspirations from the animal kingdom which guided the choreography.
- Review: The Vagina Monologues
The message is one of sexual identity: what does sex mean to a woman, and how have her experiences shaped this meaning?
- Review: Vinegar Tom
Caryl Churchill’s Vinegar Tom presents a contemporary view of absurd patriarchal depictions of the female gender.
- Review: Watercolour in Britain: Tradition and Beyond
Watercolour in Britain: Tradition and Beyond takes a closer look at the rare paintings of the world, from classic artists such as William Blake to cutting-edge artists who break the mould of watercolour snobbery.
Ents and Arts: Screen
- Screen
- A Second Take: Memento
In the stock market of Hollywood directors, Christopehr Nolan is clearly the top investment of the last two-years. But Tom Fletcher re-visits a film which shows Nolan's mastery was at work long before many realised.
- A Second Take: Revolutionary Road
With Leonardo DiCaprio continuing to make more waves in Hollywood thanks to an excellent year or more of acting, we take a look at his performance in the brilliantly adapted Revolutionary Road.
- Blu-Ray Review: Weekend at Bernie's
A cult 'comedy' gone wrong, this sick and twisted, this film wears its heart upon its sleeve and a gold Rolex on its wrist.
- Blu-ray/DVD review: The Gold Rush and Modern Times
Though the prospect of two digitally restored Charlie Chaplin’s silent films may not sound enthralling, both have been widely celebrated for decades and can still be appreciated by a younger audience.
- Blu-ray/DVD Review: The Secret in Their Eyes
A surprise Academy Award winner, The Secret in Their Eyes is a psychological thriller which combines an attention-grabbing storyline with all round consistently refined acting to confirm why it was a worthy nominee and eventual winner.
- Competition: Tickets for The Bad Lieutenant
ForgeToday.com is giving 40 lucky readers the chance to see The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans on Tuesday May 18, three days before its general release.
- DVD Review: A Rage In Harlem
A surprisingly entertaining combination of laughs, guns and weirdness set upon a backdrop of 1950s New York
- DVD Review: Afterschool
Afterschool is an unique and profound film but also commentary on twenty first century society and youth.
- DVD Review: Birdwatchers
When creating a film about the persecution of an indigenous race by colonial forces, it is very easy to fall into the all too common ‘noble savage’ conventions. While Birdwatchers can not claim to avoid such mistakes, it certainly does a better job than m
- DVD Review: Bloody Mama
A rare dvd release of Roger Corman’s cult depression-era tale of ‘Ma’ Barker and her four sons.
- DVD Review: It's Alive
The remake that never should have been. Babies are annoying, so why make a film about one? Why remake said film?
- DVD Review: Maradona
A film so deeply preoccupied with the pantomime of super-celebrity that it almost forgets that there’s an actual man lurking beneath it all.
- DVD Review: Tattoos, A Scarred History
An interesting, if at times simplistic reflection on the contemporary issues in the tattooing world.
- Review: Army of the Dead
Time is precious, so let’s not waste it here. This film is, by far, one of the worst pieces ever produced for those blessed with vision.
- Review: Avatar
A stylistically phenomenal film which fails to engage as a story or, well, anything else really.
- Review: Cargo
While Cargo is by no means a bad film, what positives it has soon become counter-balanced with costly negatives, creating a picture which entertains but does not enlighten
- Review: Kaiji - The Ultimate Gambler
Despite the exciting Japanese manga series upon which the film is based, Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler lacks pace, style and fails to entertain on every level.
- Review: Knight and Day
As one of this year's summer blockbusters, Knight and Day doesn't totally disappoint when it comes to exhilarating action sequences. But without anything vaguely interesting happening in-between, this is just a Cruise/Diaz star vehicle.
- Review: Meat Grinder
Billed as South East Asia’s answer to Sweeney Todd, the film centres around a mentally unhinged noodle chef who finds that succulent human flesh is exactly what her customers have been craving...
- Review: Salt
Decent action films need pace, excitement and suspense. And while all the gun-toting, gymnast-jumping and car-chasing has been done before, it’s thanks to strong performances and slick directing that Salt refreshes the action genre.
- Review: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
The story is simple: A bumbling, charming young man turns superhero to get the girl he loves. But with arty touches and some genuinely funny lines, this comic-film is unique – albeit so much so that it comes across a little desperate.
- Review: The A-Team
In the 1980s the A-Team was an exaggerated, implausible and action-packed TV-series. The Hollywood take does not betray its roots. Light-hearted and upbeat, it is not a brilliant film. But then all you were supposed to do is have fun.
- Review: The Box
After reeling from the delirious Southland Tales, Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly is back with a step and a stumble.
- Review: The Calling
Filmed on a tiny budget of only £250,000, The Calling is a quaint and occasionally touching film which explores a young woman’s emotional struggle as she decides to join a small, closed convent of Benedictine nuns.
- Review: The Expendables
There are planes; cars; bikes; guns; fights; explosions; rock songs; big-breasted girls; alcohol; cigars; facial hair and angry stares. So is there any depth to this testosterone frenzy? In short, no. But it’s so bad it’s awesome.
- Review: The Killer Inside Me
The champion of controversial film-making, Michael Winterbottom, delivers his latest boundary-pushing feature. But not even a masterful performance from Casey Affleck can save this picture from just being overly violent for the sake of it.
- Review: Toy Story 3
After waiting eleven years for the final instalment of the childhood classic there was a fear of Toy Story 3 being an overhyped pile of nonsense. Fortunately, it wasn’t .
- Review: Twilight - Eclipse
After two successful film adaptations of the Twilight franchise, the third film in the vampire-romance series manages to overcome previous problems and injects some much needed action into the saga.
- Review: Vincere
This, the latest award-winning feature from veteran Italian director Marco Bellocchio, is a beautifully realised piece of cinema which charts the largely unknown story of Benito Mussolini’s first wife; and her cruel rejection by the infamous dictator.
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- The Naked Heel
Sheffield graduates Will Milner and Richard Scott present the online version of their graphic short from Issuu.com.
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- A little bit 'gangster'
After meeting Germany’s biggest rap star, I’ve decided to leave my indie days behind and move onto something a little more gangster.
- A Naughty Night at Kit Kat
It was my first visit to a sex club, and it showed. On the dance floor a guy in a wheelchair had wheeled up to me, grabbed me by the hand and dragged me over to a seat nearby.
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