What can you do in five days? Play a game of test-match cricket, maybe, or take a city break to Europe. If you're Shane Meadows, you could crank out a film. The Uttoxeter-born director unveiled his latest work, Le Donk & Scor-Zay-Zee, at the Edinburgh International Film Festival two weeks ago. Meadows shot it for around ?30,000, and he claims the film took less than a week to make. If not quite ...

EVERYONE wants a piece of Megan Fox.

In 1988, English director Stephen Frears reached across the channel to Pierre Choderlos de Laclos' infamous epistolary, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and made one of the most incisive films of his career. Rapier-sharp and gleefully malicious, Dangerous Liaisons was French in a way Ch?ri, the director's latest Gallic adaptation, is not -- a pleasure-seeking missile with impeccable manners and a ...

Whether it?s his razor sharp dialogue, his impeccable use of popular music, or his ever-stylish cinematography, Quentin Tarantino is undoubtedly one of Hollywood?s most exciting and talented directors. And judging by the buzz surrounding his latest film, the WWII epic Inglourious Basterds, that isn?t going to change anytime soon. ? One of the things I like best [...]

Move over Susannah...Trinny's cosying up with a new partner

It is not just the bright weather forecast that whets the appetite for Edinburgh in 2009. The world's largest arts festival promises to be better organised this year and, fittingly for credit crunch times, there are more free and discount tickets than ever.

RENOWNED hairstyling maestro, Shunji Matsuo started styling hair more than 40 years ago. From Japan to Europe and even to the United States, this international hairstylist has worked with familiar names such as Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell and Uma Thurman.

Some of America's most infamous criminals emerged during the 1930s. The public, desperate for something to distract them from the Depression, became fascinated with fugitives -- reveling in their crime sprees and subsequent demises.

The Indian government is considering rewriting a law drafted more than 100 years ago that criminalises homosexuality. The news emerged as the capital, Delhi, held its second gay rights march yesterday and other cities across the nation played host to similar parades.

p2pnet news view | Crime:- For anyone who?s been following the Madoff trial, he?s been sentenced to 150 years in the slammer. And with that kind of sentence imposed, he?s unlikely to end up in a federal holiday camp, the destination of all too many so-called white-collar criminals. Bernard Madoff ran the largest Ponzi scam in history. A [...]