Film Review: The Wolf of Wall Street

Money, money, money. Must be funny, in a rich man's world.

After spending several years in production hell, The Wolf of Wall Street has finally hit our cinema screens. Leonardo DiCaprio and director Martin Scorsese's tale of corruption, greed and excessive lifestyles, based on Jordan Belfort's book, is certainly attracting a lot of attention. Telling the true story of Jordan Belfort, a wealthy stockbroker with an extravagant lifestyle who finds himself caught up with the FBI due to his involvement in crime and corruption, has divided audiences and film critics around the world. With attacks on its use of animals, 'glamorisation' of drugs, portrayal of women and its excessive swearing, it has certainly caused controversy. However, some people absolutely adore it, including the Academy nominating it for a number of Oscars, including Best Film, Best Director and Best Actor.

How I Met Your Racism

How I Met Your Mother has fallen into disfavour following their latest episode; Slapsgiving 3: Slappointment in Slapmarra. As the title might suggest, it’s the one where Barney gets his fourth slap. What was wrong with the episode? It’s been branded racist as it portrayed three of the main cast (Robin, Lily and Ted) dressed as characters from kung-fu movies.

Breaking Bad hits the Streets with Real Blue-Dyed Meth

Blue Sky; a form of methamphetamine that’s totally pure and gets its blue colouring from the processes used to make it, which differ from common methods. It’s been popularised by the hit show Breaking Bad, and is of course a completely fictional strain of meth.

King Joffrey Addresses The Oxford Union Society and Attacks Celebrity Culture

Everyone loves  a bit of Lannister bashing. And why not, they are complete bastards. But you can't help but like the young actor Jack Gleeson after watching even a short clip of his hour long speech to the Oxford union Society.

Magic: The Gathering to become Magic: The Movie?

Magic: The Gathering. That would be the card game you’d most associate with the kind of nerds that rarely see daylight. You know the ones. As to the game itself, think Yu-Gi-Oh but way more complicated. And Yu-Gi-Oh is pretty over-convoluted and hard to get to grips with.

The Wolf Of Wall Street Banned And Censored Across Asia

Leonardo DiCaprio’s latest venture with Hollywood messiah Martin Scorsese is one hell of a sexy affair. Blunt, over the top and totally debauched, it’s twanged a few nerves in various Asian countries leading to heavy editing and even outright bans.

Arriving in Thailand

I guess most people’s first vision of Thailand is arriving at the airport in Bangkok and driving into the city. Not me.

I filled out some forms and was stamped out of Malaysia and into Thailand, crossing the Sadao border checkpoint in Thailand’s far south. The difference with Malaysia was distinct. The big wide road with dusty shop fronts either side was much busier and more chaotic than Malaysia. Big trucks and cars pumping down the street, motorcycles weaving in between, some with side-cars selling food, all of them kicking up big clouds of dust and smoke from the street.

New Game Of Thrones Season 4 Preview

Well winter came and went and it's almost time for another season of Game of Thrones. Check out this sneak peak of Season four which starts in spring.

Pulp Fiction as an 8 Bit Video Game

This is just brilliant. Check out the video below.

UK’s Sluttiest City Revealed

Researchers have deduced the cities in the UK where the most one night stands are going down. Not only that but they’ve also worked out the most “adventurous” city, and yes that means exactly what you think it means.

Bury Tomorrow Announce Intimate UK Tour and Third Album Release Date!

Hampshire melodic metalcore band Bury Tomorrow have announced their third album titled 'Runes' will be released on the 26^th May this year via Nuclear Blast Records. Harsh vocalist Daniel Winter-Bates has said the following about the upcoming release:

American Psycho: Almeida Theatre, London - Review

The Almedia Theatre, London 

In what could possibly be the most impolitic clash of styles (possibly) ever, the Headlong theatre company in association with the Almeida theatre present to us American Psycho as…… a musical.

Walter White really Looks Like Ned Flanders

New research from the LHC at Cern has revealed that Ned Flanders really really looks like Walter White from Breaking Bad.

Here are some pictures that were left over when protons collided at near the speed of light and therefore sort of prove this hypothesis:

Fake Tweet of Fresh Prince Tribute Episode Confuses Fans

We’re going to start off with some sad news which you may well have heard by now. James Avery, or Uncle Phil from the Fresh Prince of Bel Air, has recently died. This has obviously caused sadness for fans and former cast members alike. Or, for one chap, an opportunity for pranks.

In light of this death, a tweet supposedly from Will Smith came out suggesting that the whole cast get together for a reunion episode in tribute to Uncle Phil. Sounds lovely, as fans agreed. They were fully in support of the idea, and showed this support by instantly retweeting as soon as our alleged Will Smith tweeted again, this time stating that he’d talked to NBC who’d told him he needed 300,000 retweets to make it happen. 

He even went to the trouble of setting up a fake screenshot of that conversation. To be honest, I’m just impressed he bothered to get the right network, although I still think the story would run exactly the same even if he’d got it wrong.

And those retweets came flooding in, because fans believed that that’s exactly how TV channels work. They also believed that someone tweeting as @Freshprincewill could be the real deal, as Will Smith has clearly done nothing of note since Fresh Prince. Twitter really does bring the smart people into the limelight.

Even as recent as this morning, searching on Twitter will reveal that not everyone has grasped the fact that it’s a fake; you can still see them retweeting with hope for a new episode. Although most of the tweets are now coming in as announcements of the fact that it was a fake, as if it was somehow shocking. 

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Surgeon Stamps his Initials on a Patients Liver

So, you’ve had to go into hospital for surgery. Not ideal, but at least you’ll be operated on by someone qualified. As in someone professional, who is responsible and knows what they’re doing. Someone who you can trust to be digging around in all the squishy goo inside that makes you work. Unfortunately, sometimes, someone you probably wouldn’t want messing around with your vital organs manages to get in there anyway.

The First Fail of 2014?

With a new year starting it's back to looking at stupid stuff on the internet. This Detroit Ice Hockey fan has got us off to a good start by going arse over tit in a this videobomb fail.

Japanese Girl Rocks Muse's Knights of Cydonia in 5 Cello Parts

Japanese Cello player Onenaoko combines five parts to cover Muse's Knights of Cydonia. Check out the video below.

Keira Knightley Sums up What Twitter is all About

Given that we live in an age when everyone and their nan has a Twitter, probably the most shocking thing you’ll discover in this article is that Keira Knightley didn’t have a Twitter at all until recently. Even more recently, she’s gone back a step and gotten rid of it. She lasted an entire 12 hours, which is as many hours as some celebs spend on it per day.

First Look at Guardians of the Galaxy

With a new year comes fresh movie news and Marvel have decided to bring in 2014 with the first official image from Guardians of the Galaxy.

With a star-studded cast featuring Zoe Salanda, Vin Diesel and Hollywood Heartthrob Bradley Cooper, Guardians of the Galaxy is set to be Marvel's biggest movie yet.

Interview with Danny Wallace

Not many people can say they appear on the ‘Best of Loose Women’ DVD, have accidentally became the face of a new religious holiday, or are responsible for a Hollywood film. But Danny Wallace can.

The Dundee born writer moved around a lot as a child because of his dad’s job, but this is something that he says had a positive impact on him: “it kind of feels natural to me to walk into a room and just start talking to people, so going on adventures isn’t very intimidating.” This is also a characteristic he says is shared by his son: “I watch my kid now and he walks up to strangers and immediately starts a conversation with them about something that smells of mints.”