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Robbed at The Oscars: Goodfellas (0)

5/1/09 •

It’s all politics, man, politics

What a great time January is at the pictures. It’s when all of the serious, po-faced, Oscar contenders are dusted down and wheeled out, so that important men in half-moon spectacles can judge whether they’re socially conscious enough or not. This also means that studios like to unleash their most childish [...]

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Interestment’s Oscar Predictions: Best Supporting Actor (0)

29/1/09 •

Bit of a no brainer… or is it?

It’s a good statuette to win, Best Supporting Actor. For the most part, it’s essentially telling you that you were better than the main guy – the one who strode about the set wearing just pants and cowboy boots, demanding the most disgusting things from runners. Yeah, that [...]

5 Alternative 1970s Soul Records to Buy (0)

4/11/09 •

Featuring this intriguing gentleman…

Now that almost every song ever recorded is available at the press of a button, it can be a nightmare sorting the wheat from the chaff. Hence, we shall be spending the next week or so suggesting great records from different genres for you to try out. We shall also be suggesting [...]

Happy Birthday Ginger Baker, here’s a drum solo! (0)

19/8/09 •

Ginger Baker, 1969

Ginger Baker, the legendary jazz/rock drummer turns a very outrageous 70-years-old today, which makes us wonder whether the “Ginger” nickname still stands. Might he be more “greyish/ginger” now? We’re not sure. We haven’t seen him for a while. To those who don’t know, he was a popular drummer in the 1960s and 1970s, [...]

Great British Bands: The Slits (1)

2/2/09 •

The Slits, Typical Girls

Long before The Spice Girls, Girls Aloud, and now The Saturdays, girl groups were already going strong in the UK. Like The Slits, for example – here they are in 1979. Look out for lead singer Ari Up’s revolutionary one-legged dancing in this cheerful video, filmed in one of London’s many parks. [...]

Interestment’s Top Four: Cigarettes (8)

21/5/09 •

Sometimes it’s sexy, sometimes it’s just not…

Smokers – once they were so damn cool, with their hot cups of coffee, their sexy girlfriends, their interesting media jobs, their slightly brown teeth. But now look at them, huddled together outside pubs, apologetically drawing smoke from a limp Marlboro Light, regaling anyone within earshot with hollow stories [...]

Happy Birthday Macaulay Culkin, here’s Uncle Buck! (0)

26/8/09 •

Uncle Buck, the Horror version

Little Macaulay Culkin, the wise-cracking toddler, has somehow made it to 29-years-old. That means that he’s probably fully grown by now. Rumours suggest that he might even have a deep manly voice. He’s probably covered in hair. He can drive cars. He could go and get a tatt done right now [...]

Picnic Essential: Bruschetta (1)

11/8/09 •

Italian for “tomato on toast”

Yes, you’re absolutely right, the weather is very schizophrenic these days – almost like one of those scary people with multiple personalities. One minute, it’s screaming at you like a maniac in the middle of the road bellowing into your windscreen, as sheets of rain come sloshing down over your regulation [...]

Interestment’s Top Four: Film Directors (2)

3/8/09 •

Some very popular ones didn’t make the cut…

While the actors lounge around in bed with models, or fill in the gaps between takes by embarking on wild drug sprees or talking to dead-eyed maniacs like Tom Cruise about Scientology, the real heroes are the guys behind the scenes, making sure that a movie fits with [...]