Abdullah Raj IN THE YEAR when Stephen King’s It came out, I was a bit apprehensive about going to watch another film about a clown. One clown is too many for a year. However, I went into the classy Charlotte Street Hotel ...
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You shall go to the Ball!
THE MOST magical of pantomimes is coming to the Hackney Empire this winter – with booking already open and shows starting on 18th November. The Hackney team has turned its attention to this classic rags to riches tale and developed ...
Read More »You couldn’t make it up
Emdad Rahman reviews Fake News: Strange historical facts reimagined in the world of Donald Trump. IN A NUTSHELL, this book is lampooning of Olympic Gold standards by witty, Newham-based Author David Hutter. The digest by the 38 year old begins with ...
Read More »MCM London Comic Con is a great success
THE SECOND MCM London Comic Con of 2017 – the 32nd show overall – has now closed its doors after a successful three day celebration of pop culture featuring UK exclusives, iconic celebrities, superheroes, and thousands of pop culture fans, ...
Read More »Shrouded – a film you’ll never forget
SHROUDED IS A very short film – but it lives with you for days after you’ve watched it. In its tiny form it is a film of jarring contradictions and shuddering earthquakes that make you confront your prejudices and your expectations. ...
Read More »Rewind Review: The Shining (1980) Returns to Cinemas
Wildfyre reviews The Shining, which can be seen in cinemas on Hallowe’en. Adaptations and reboots of Stephen King’s work are popular right now, what with The Dark Tower, It, and Gerald’s Game recently released and with many others in development. Plus, with it being Hallowe’en it only ...
Read More »The National Asian Wedding Show is back
EUROPE’S LARGEST National Asian Wedding Show and India Fashion Week are to return to the UK on 11th and 12th November. The events will be held at Olympia London for the first time. With the Indian wedding industry valued at over ...
Read More »Hackney Empire vetoes non-Asian singers
HACKNEY EMPIRE has refused to allow a Music Wales Theatre (MWT) production of The Golden Dragon to be performed at the East London venue as it features Caucasian singers playing the part of Asian characters. The opera was due to ...
Read More »Bangladesh fashion designers descend on London
HOT ON THE HEELS of London Fashion Week, Bangladeshi fashion designers are aptly placed and ready to take on the world. Having competed, excelled and dominated in the world of ready made garments, and becoming the world’s second largest manufacturing base ...
Read More »The rise of the modern day baker
WE’RE IN THE MIDST midst of a baking resurgence with homemade marvels whetting our appetites everywhere we turn. From bragging rights on social media to the mass of cooking shows battling it out on the box, it would appear that dusting ...
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