8 ½ Jobs which could help you win an Oscar

With awards season well and truly underway, Gregor Cubie takes a look at where our favourite Oscar-winning actor-types started out in the world of work… Sailor Humphrey Bogart – Voted America’s greatest film star by the American Film Institute, Bogart’s reasons for joining the US navy as an 18 year-old are hotly disputed. Theories range… Continue reading 8 ½ Jobs which could help you win an Oscar

The Best and Worst Comebacks in Music

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Destiny’s Child and Justin Timberlake recently announced their return to the bright lights of the music world and we couldn’t be more excited! It’s going to be one heck of a year for comebacks in music, however there is a good possibility not all of them will survive in the current market. With so many… Continue reading The Best and Worst Comebacks in Music

Oscar Nominations 2013: The Ones That Got Away

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Amidst the bitter cold of these winter evenings, not much is bringing me comfort except my hot water bottle. Writing that sentence was genuinely the first time in my life I have ever felt really old, but anyway. The point is; it’s dark, it’s cold and getting out of bed becomes increasingly more difficult with… Continue reading Oscar Nominations 2013: The Ones That Got Away

How To Meet Your New Year’s Resolutions

We’ve all said it before; I’m going to eat more healthily, stop biting my nails and study more. But do any of us actually stick to our new year’s resolutions? When you set yourself a resolution make sure it’s firstly doable, and secondly, realistic. To give you a bit of inspiration, we wondered what the… Continue reading How To Meet Your New Year’s Resolutions

We’re all mad diarists…

Research by E4 reveals personal pen-and-paper diaries more popular than ever as teens take comfort in private journals over social networking sites Research conducted by E4 to tie in with brand new British 90’s-set series My Mad Fat Diary, based on the real-life teenage diaries of Rae Earl – starting Monday 14th January, 10pm 83% of… Continue reading We’re all mad diarists…

REVIEW: Les Misérables

Famously trashed by critics when it first appeared on the stage in 1985, the film version of Les Misérables has arrived. However, loosely based on Victor Hugo’s immense novel set among the poor in 19th century France, the production has thrived ever since. It now stands as the longest- running musical in the West End… Continue reading REVIEW: Les Misérables

8 fictional bosses you will definitely encounter in your working life

The employer-employee relationship is such a fruitful source for observational humour and covered in such depth by movies, books and television, that frequently a work of fiction will stumble upon a  management archetype scarily close to the reality of the modern workplace. Such is the popularity of this relationship there are whole films dedicated to… Continue reading 8 fictional bosses you will definitely encounter in your working life

From Stage to Screen

Since its release across the pond last year, the big-screen adaptation of Les Misérables has been winning rave reviews from critics and cinema-goers alike. And we at Source couldn’t be more pleased. You see, we love a good musical, in the biggest, flashiest, jazz-handiest way possible. The costumes, the goosebump-inducing musical numbers, the lights, the… Continue reading From Stage to Screen