Tag: entertainment

Why Reality TV Is Better Than Reality

‘Tis the season to be jolly! ‘Tis also apparently the season to don your onesie and not move from the sofa ever. I quite simply refuse to believe I am the only one engaging in some serious slobbery during this festive season, and I can tell you exactly why the sofa is so appealing: reality… Continue reading Why Reality TV Is Better Than Reality

Rate It or Hate It? – The Twilight Saga

Between them, the first four Twilight movies have made over $2,500,000,000 – a number with so many zeroes, we can’t even figure out how you’d say it. What it does mean, however, is that that’s a WHOLE lot of cinema tickets. And, in the last 24 hours, that figure will have rocketed even further as… Continue reading Rate It or Hate It? – The Twilight Saga

From Education to the Abyss – A Social Conversation

While working on the new feature film, Life Just Is, which focuses on key issues faced by a group of friends in the months following their graduation, the film’s creators came to realise that many graduates had a story to tell about their experiences of entering ‘the real world’. With this in mind, they have… Continue reading From Education to the Abyss – A Social Conversation

Surviving a Zombie Apocalypse

The third season of the hit US drama, The Walking Dead, is now underway with more drama, more blood and even more zombies! The show stars Andrew Lincoln as Sheriff Rick Grimes, who must lead a group of survivors, including his wife and young son as they  try to survive in zombie-infested America. Rick has… Continue reading Surviving a Zombie Apocalypse

The 7 most unconventional jobs done by future Presidents of the USA (and how they came in useful in the hot seat)

Although history tells us that your best shot of being President is to first be a teacher, lawyer, soldier, business-person, career politician or all of the above (like the very first president, George Washington) a handful of Commanders-in-Chief, including the newly re-elected President Obama, reached the Whitehouse via less well-trodden career paths, demonstrating that someone… Continue reading The 7 most unconventional jobs done by future Presidents of the USA (and how they came in useful in the hot seat)

5 prerequisites for being a contestant on Young Apprentice (that are just as annoying in a real business environment)

In terms of pure entertainment, there isn’t much on British TV that can top The Apprentice programmes. The only problem is that producers of the show have twigged that the most entertaining contestants aren’t always the ones that the viewers should be taking an example from, which means that the main criteria for choosing who… Continue reading 5 prerequisites for being a contestant on Young Apprentice (that are just as annoying in a real business environment)

7 Lies Fresh Meat teaches you about being a student (and why the reality is way more awesome)

So well observed is C4’s Fresh Meat that it’s easy to forget that it isn’t a hilarious documentary on student life but a work of pure fiction, very little of which has been conceived by people who have been students within the last decade. This has resulted in a couple of teensy inaccuracies or, as… Continue reading 7 Lies Fresh Meat teaches you about being a student (and why the reality is way more awesome)