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THE WEIGHT OF YOUR LOVE The Editors (Liberation) From humble beginnings as music students at Staffordshire University, The Editors have grown into a fullblown stadium band with a big sound to match.
The robot on the computer monitor stands about 30 centimetre tall. For visual-effects wizard Hal Hickel, the mission was simple: Make audiences believe the metallic creature was real and soared to a height of 75 metres
For a select few around the world, 2013 is a year of joy, mystery and edge-of-your-seat spoiler gathering. It’s not our fault that we are so obsessed.
PITCH PERFECT (Universal) Director: Jason Moore Starring: Anna Kendrick, Skylar Astin, Rebel Wilson, Anna Camp, Brittany Snow I normally give musical films a wide berth. The idea of people breaking into full song – or, in the case of Pitch Perfect, giving us acapella takes on pop hits – makes my skin crawl.
It took two hours of fat jokes, F-bombs and a cameo by a $5000 kangaroo but Rebel Wilson is officially the toast of Hollywood following her hosting debut at the 2013 MTV Movie Awards. Wilson said she wanted to ensure the show had a distinctly Australian feel and so the “fat, simple girl from Australia” opened the show wearing a hot pink tracksuit emblazoned with koalas.
You don’t need to tell John Boehner about the lethal damage a government shutdown can do to his party; he’s seen it firsthand. In November 1995, Boehner was a young lieutenant to the mercurial Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who was trying to jam huge GOP budget cuts down the throat of the Clinton White House