[Youtube "NgU33yY_6_8"] Missy Lanning couldn't wait to be a mom. "I wanted to document every second of it," the California native says of starting her blog, Bumps Along the Way, in 2011. "But I had no idea how many bumps there'd be." In 2012 Missy and her husband, Bryan, found out they were expecting for the first time. "I had all this joy and no fear," Missy says in the current issue of People. But she suffered through a miscarriage just nine weeks into the pregnancy. Less than a year later, their son was stillborn at 19 weeks. “I thought I might never be a mom,...
- 7/29/2016
- by Patrick Gomez, @PatrickGomezLA
- PEOPLE.com
[Youtube "NgU33yY_6_8"] Missy Lanning couldn't wait to be a mom. "I wanted to document every second of it," the California native says of starting her blog, Bumps Along the Way, in 2011. "But I had no idea how many bumps there'd be." In 2012 Missy and her husband, Bryan, found out they were expecting for the first time. "I had all this joy and no fear," Missy says in the current issue of People. But she suffered through a miscarriage just nine weeks into the pregnancy. Less than a year later, their son was stillborn at 19 weeks. “I thought I might never be a mom,...
- 7/29/2016
- by Patrick Gomez, @PatrickGomezLA
- PEOPLE.com
Forecasters have warned that we may need to get used to washout summers, perhaps for the next 10 years. From wildlife to camping to fashion, what will this do to us a nation?
1 Not so happy campers
Campers love good weather. Last May 56% more people turned up at the Camping and Caravanning Club's sites than in 2011, thanks to fine conditions. The opposite happens when it rains. But if there is a cheery side to a decade of wet summers, it might be that we finally hear no more about "glamping". But be warned, we already have "wamping" – wet weather camping.
2 I predict no riots
From the Notting Hill riots to Toxteth, Brixton and of course the UK riots that spread across the country in 2011 – all of them took place in the summer. Some of those involved in the 2011 riots said the rain was a key factor in the unrest ending. So...
1 Not so happy campers
Campers love good weather. Last May 56% more people turned up at the Camping and Caravanning Club's sites than in 2011, thanks to fine conditions. The opposite happens when it rains. But if there is a cheery side to a decade of wet summers, it might be that we finally hear no more about "glamping". But be warned, we already have "wamping" – wet weather camping.
2 I predict no riots
From the Notting Hill riots to Toxteth, Brixton and of course the UK riots that spread across the country in 2011 – all of them took place in the summer. Some of those involved in the 2011 riots said the rain was a key factor in the unrest ending. So...
- 6/24/2013
- by Homa Khaleeli, Emine Saner
- The Guardian - Film News
For 25 years the magazine has chronicled the births, marriages and lovely homes of the stars – and it has changed the media's agenda
So many contracts have been signed and so many celebrity parties photographed since the first edition of Hello! went on sale in Britain 25 years ago, it is hard to pick out the most celebrated. Would it perhaps be the wedding of Paul and Sheryl Gascoigne in 1996, or perhaps one of Elton John's regular white tie and tiara affairs? Only a few of the big ones, such as Madonna's marriage to Guy Ritchie at Skibo castle in 2000, have eluded its pages. On Wednesday, however, the magazine's joint editors, Rosie Nixon and Ruth Sullivan, will be throwing a party of their own in London "to say thank you to those who have contributed to the magazine over the years".
"It is going to be a glamorous cocktail party and very exciting,...
So many contracts have been signed and so many celebrity parties photographed since the first edition of Hello! went on sale in Britain 25 years ago, it is hard to pick out the most celebrated. Would it perhaps be the wedding of Paul and Sheryl Gascoigne in 1996, or perhaps one of Elton John's regular white tie and tiara affairs? Only a few of the big ones, such as Madonna's marriage to Guy Ritchie at Skibo castle in 2000, have eluded its pages. On Wednesday, however, the magazine's joint editors, Rosie Nixon and Ruth Sullivan, will be throwing a party of their own in London "to say thank you to those who have contributed to the magazine over the years".
"It is going to be a glamorous cocktail party and very exciting,...
- 5/11/2013
- by Vanessa Thorpe
- The Guardian - Film News
It was a dark, bleak, Dickens-filled Christmas – and really rather captivating
Great Expectations (BBC1) | iPlayer
Mrs Dickens' Family Christmas (BBC2) | iPlayer
Doctor Who: The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe (BBC1) | iPlayer
Downtown Abbey Christmas Special (ITV1) | ITV Player
The Borrowers (BBC1) | iPlayer
Felix and Murdo (C4) | 4Od
It was a Dickens-heavy Christmas and all the better for it. By that, I don't mean the rosy confected one of bantering ho-hos and seething subterranean hypocrisies which Charles essentially invented. It was a dark, bleak, clever one, with ghostly waving branches and awkward truths – possibly rather suitable to end the year we've just had.
There was, of course, Great Expectations, over three grimly fabulous nights. You knew it was going to be good from the off, when a muddied Ray Winstone as Magwitch grabbed Pip's foot from under the bridge, those skies above the marshes a cloying grey shroud of claustrophobic tension.
Great Expectations (BBC1) | iPlayer
Mrs Dickens' Family Christmas (BBC2) | iPlayer
Doctor Who: The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe (BBC1) | iPlayer
Downtown Abbey Christmas Special (ITV1) | ITV Player
The Borrowers (BBC1) | iPlayer
Felix and Murdo (C4) | 4Od
It was a Dickens-heavy Christmas and all the better for it. By that, I don't mean the rosy confected one of bantering ho-hos and seething subterranean hypocrisies which Charles essentially invented. It was a dark, bleak, clever one, with ghostly waving branches and awkward truths – possibly rather suitable to end the year we've just had.
There was, of course, Great Expectations, over three grimly fabulous nights. You knew it was going to be good from the off, when a muddied Ray Winstone as Magwitch grabbed Pip's foot from under the bridge, those skies above the marshes a cloying grey shroud of claustrophobic tension.
- 1/1/2012
- by Euan Ferguson
- The Guardian - Film News
The ideal of the 'Superwoman' juggling motherhood and work has been scotched. Now the pressure on women is to be perfect carers, with careers like a dirty secret
You remember Superwoman: she had a baby under one arm, a briefcase under the other, a phone between her ear and her shoulder, and she could talk eating toast (she still ate carbs: obesity was never her problem because she was always so busy).
She didn't wear shoulder pads (that was Career Woman: never that popular, thanks to Sigourney Weaver), and she didn't wear her pants over her tights (that was first-wave Superwoman). Her real-life embodiment was Nicola Horlick who, in 1996, was 35 years old, a mother of five, and one of the highest earners in the city. She was always modest about this, and said at the time that probably the more difficult job was to raise children while struggling for money,...
You remember Superwoman: she had a baby under one arm, a briefcase under the other, a phone between her ear and her shoulder, and she could talk eating toast (she still ate carbs: obesity was never her problem because she was always so busy).
She didn't wear shoulder pads (that was Career Woman: never that popular, thanks to Sigourney Weaver), and she didn't wear her pants over her tights (that was first-wave Superwoman). Her real-life embodiment was Nicola Horlick who, in 1996, was 35 years old, a mother of five, and one of the highest earners in the city. She was always modest about this, and said at the time that probably the more difficult job was to raise children while struggling for money,...
- 9/16/2011
- by Zoe Williams
- The Guardian - Film News
Rhi Entertainment and Vivendi Entertainment will be releasing SyFy's 'Roadkill' (part of their Maneater Series) onto DVD from 16 August. More middle of nowhere horror ensues when an unsuspecting group of weekend partyers fall prey to an ancient creature. British director Johannes Roberts ('When Evil Calls', 'F') helms the project from a script penned by Rick Suvalle. It stars Stephen Rea ('The Reaping', 'Stuck'), sexy Brit Eliza Bennett ('F'), Colin Maher, Oliver James, Diarmuid Noyes, Ned Dennehy and Eve Macklin. The gorgeous Kacey Barnfield, of 'Lake Placid 3' and the upcoming horror flick 'Jabberwocky' fame also stars. Check out the plot synopsis and new DVD artwork below....
- 7/14/2011
- Horror Asylum
Rating: 1.5 out of 5 stars
Highly publicised (and perhaps vindicated) by the British press in the week leading up to the Cannes Film Festival, comedian/filmmaker/actor Keith Allen’s new documentary Unlawful Killing spends the majority of it’s running time telling us that a Nazi Prince Phillip – husband to a ‘mafia’ style Queen of England – plotted to kill the former Princess Diana of Wales and her lover Dodi Fayed in that mysterious Parisian tunnel car crash in late August 1997 that took both their lives, and that of their driver Henri Paul.
It’s a sensational claim in what is an absurd but nevertheless entertaining and fast-paced film which Allen calls ‘the anti-dote to The King’s Speech’ – a supposedly revealing and insightful argument for why murder most foul was committed by a paranoid Monarchy and how it was ‘skilfully’ covered up by France and Britain, beginning just minutes after the crash.
Highly publicised (and perhaps vindicated) by the British press in the week leading up to the Cannes Film Festival, comedian/filmmaker/actor Keith Allen’s new documentary Unlawful Killing spends the majority of it’s running time telling us that a Nazi Prince Phillip – husband to a ‘mafia’ style Queen of England – plotted to kill the former Princess Diana of Wales and her lover Dodi Fayed in that mysterious Parisian tunnel car crash in late August 1997 that took both their lives, and that of their driver Henri Paul.
It’s a sensational claim in what is an absurd but nevertheless entertaining and fast-paced film which Allen calls ‘the anti-dote to The King’s Speech’ – a supposedly revealing and insightful argument for why murder most foul was committed by a paranoid Monarchy and how it was ‘skilfully’ covered up by France and Britain, beginning just minutes after the crash.
- 5/16/2011
- by Matt Holmes
- Obsessed with Film
The actor is in Cannes – where Unlawful Killing is not being shown – to squeeze as much festival publicity as he can
"It's made from my point of view," said Keith Allen as he defended his film about Princess Diana's death, Unlawful Killing. "It's what the French call being an auteur."
Every so often a little invented scandal blows into Cannes; a harmless, or not so harmless, flurry of carefully created media noise for a film that, while nothing to do with the festival's official programme, uses Cannes to lever in credibility by association.
So it was with this new film by Allen, an actor who once appeared in Shallow Grave. It is being touted as the film you will never see in Britain – lawyers have demanded 87 cuts before it can be certificated. Some may say: lucky Britain.
When Allen uttered his "auteur" line there were titters in the grand...
"It's made from my point of view," said Keith Allen as he defended his film about Princess Diana's death, Unlawful Killing. "It's what the French call being an auteur."
Every so often a little invented scandal blows into Cannes; a harmless, or not so harmless, flurry of carefully created media noise for a film that, while nothing to do with the festival's official programme, uses Cannes to lever in credibility by association.
So it was with this new film by Allen, an actor who once appeared in Shallow Grave. It is being touted as the film you will never see in Britain – lawyers have demanded 87 cuts before it can be certificated. Some may say: lucky Britain.
When Allen uttered his "auteur" line there were titters in the grand...
- 5/13/2011
- by Charlotte Higgins
- The Guardian - Film News
The Irish-filmed 'Roadkill', a new Syfy TV movie, is set to air on the channel stateside on 23 April at 9:00pm. It stars the gorgeous Kacey Barnfield (below), whom we never get tired of featuring here at the Horror Asylum. Kacey is taking her acting career well into the genre, which we like, with already credits in 'Resident Evil: Afterlife' and the upcoming 'Jabberwocky' under her belt. This isn't her first Syfy TV movie either after having appeared topless and in all her naked glory in gator sequel 'Lake Placid 3' last year. British director Johannes Roberts ('When Evil Calls', 'F') helms the project from a script penned by Rick Suvalle. It stars Stephen Rea ('The Reaping', 'Stuck'), sexy Brit Eliza Bennett ('F'), Colin Maher, Oliver James, Diarmuid Noyes, Ned Dennehy and Eve Macklin. Check out the trailer below....
- 3/2/2011
- Horror Asylum
Mel Torme aside, the soundtrack for "Jack Goes Boating" is heavy with highly revered indie rock acts like Grizzly Bear and Fleet Foxes and Cat Power. Some incredible 70's soul and 60's Reggae round out Philip Seymour Hoffman's directorial debut and it looks like this might be the soundtrack to beat this Fall. And who doesn't like a little Mel Torme anyway?
The film follows a limo driver named Jack, played by Hoffman, whose love for reggae inspired him to sort of grow dreadlocks. He dreams of working for the Mta while hanging out with fellow driver Clyde and his wife Lucy. When the couple set Jack up with Connie, Jack decides takes swimming lessons from Clyde so he can "give Connie the romantic boat ride she dreams of."
Character driven relationship dramady ensues. Listen to some of the tracks I found most compelling, including the strangely beautiful "Dearly...
The film follows a limo driver named Jack, played by Hoffman, whose love for reggae inspired him to sort of grow dreadlocks. He dreams of working for the Mta while hanging out with fellow driver Clyde and his wife Lucy. When the couple set Jack up with Connie, Jack decides takes swimming lessons from Clyde so he can "give Connie the romantic boat ride she dreams of."
Character driven relationship dramady ensues. Listen to some of the tracks I found most compelling, including the strangely beautiful "Dearly...
- 9/3/2010
- by Brandon Kim
- ifc.com
London, June 30 – A British psychologist has stated that mothers have a lower status in society than street sweepers, making them feel unvalued.
Oliver James said that women feel unvalued when they have children, putting them at higher risk of becoming depressed, especially poorer mothers as they have less fulfilling careers.
His comments echoed the results of a survey of 5,000 users of Netmums, the parenting website, which found that women with less money find bringing up babies less satisfying than richer ones.
About three-quarters of mothers on low incomes worried about money.
Oliver James said that women feel unvalued when they have children, putting them at higher risk of becoming depressed, especially poorer mothers as they have less fulfilling careers.
His comments echoed the results of a survey of 5,000 users of Netmums, the parenting website, which found that women with less money find bringing up babies less satisfying than richer ones.
About three-quarters of mothers on low incomes worried about money.
- 6/30/2010
- by News
- RealBollywood.com
Noticings
Everyone has a camera on their phone, but very few of us use them beyond the moments when we realise we must capture a friend throwing up or take a picture of a gig from what will look like a mile away. Noticings is a nice way of having fun with your mobile technology (you can use proper cameras, too) by taking part in a game that invites you to notice interesting little things around you that you might not normally spot: perplexing pavement markings, lost cat posters, abandoned soft toys. Sign up, then, after labelling your photos in Flikr; every day at 3pm the relevant pictures are imported to the site and the points are totted up. Random I-spy for grown-ups.
Car Pool
Doing for chatshows what Black Cab Sessions does for music, Car Pool is a weekly video podcast in which host Robert Llewellyn (of Kryten from...
Everyone has a camera on their phone, but very few of us use them beyond the moments when we realise we must capture a friend throwing up or take a picture of a gig from what will look like a mile away. Noticings is a nice way of having fun with your mobile technology (you can use proper cameras, too) by taking part in a game that invites you to notice interesting little things around you that you might not normally spot: perplexing pavement markings, lost cat posters, abandoned soft toys. Sign up, then, after labelling your photos in Flikr; every day at 3pm the relevant pictures are imported to the site and the points are totted up. Random I-spy for grown-ups.
Car Pool
Doing for chatshows what Black Cab Sessions does for music, Car Pool is a weekly video podcast in which host Robert Llewellyn (of Kryten from...
- 11/14/2009
- by Johnny Dee
- The Guardian - Film News
As we said in our Grammy Predictions, we have a love/hate relationship with the Grammys. But hey, we love music, so we're watching to see what happens. Could be a big year for Lil Wayne (did you see his interview with "Miss" Katie Couric?). Could be a controversial night if Coldplay's alleged Joe Satriani rip-off grabs some hardware ("Viva La Vida" by Coldplay and Satriani's "If I Could Fly"). But plenty of great artists are nominated (M.I.A., Allison Krauss/Robert Plant, Radiohead, Gnarls Barkley, Daft Punk, Brazilian Girls....we could go on), so as always, it'll be worth watching, especially for the performances. Unlike the Oscars, where the show is pretty much all about the host, the Grammys are all about those live performances (remember when Beyonce stole the show with Prince back in 2004?). Hang with us and add to the conversation in the comments!
11:30 (Josh and Nick): Goodnight,...
11:30 (Josh and Nick): Goodnight,...
- 2/9/2009
- Pastemagazine.com
A trailer for the direct-to-disc sequel, Without a Paddle: Nature’s Calling, is now online. The successor to the Seth Green and Dax Sheppeard comedy arrives on shelves January 13 and stars Oliver James, Kristopher Turner, Rik Young, Will Cuddy, Robert Blanche, Amber McDonald, Todd Robinson and Madison Riley. Check out the trailer, official synopsis and box art below. Official Synopsis: What do you get when you mix a lawyer, a slacker and a British Guy with the great outdoors? The wettest, wildest, and most outrageous road trip since Lewis & Clark! As a last wish for a little old lady, Ben the lawyer (James), his best friend Zach (Turner), and a wacky Brit, Nigel (Young), team up to find her missing granddaughter. But there’s one little problem…She’s somewhere deep in the wilderness getting in touch with nature. See what happens when three guys without a plan, without a...
- 1/5/2009
- by James Cook
- TheMovingPicture.net
Veteran talent manager JoAnne Colonna is leaving the Firm to join Brillstein-Grey Management's senior executive ranks, the company said. Colonna, who was co-head of the talent department at the Firm for six years, is expected to bring to Brillstein-Grey a list of clients that includes Academy Award winner Anna Paquin, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Brittany Murphy, Andy Garcia, Brendan Fraser, James Purefoy and Oliver James. Brillstein-Grey partners Cynthia Pett-Dante and Jon Liebman hailed the addition, calling Colonna "one of the most experienced and well-respected managers in the business."...
- 7/31/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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