Kevin Spacey

Oscar Eye: Predicting Best Supporting Actor And Actress

The supporting acting categories are some of the slipperiest the Oscars have to offer. Studios (and obsessive Oscar bloggers) spend months deciding which actors should go lead and which should go supporting, and movies without...

SPACEY TESTS HARTNETT WITH 24 HOUR PLAY EVENT

KEVIN SPACEY will put Hollywood actor JOSH HARTNETT’s abilities to the test later this month (Nov08) - the PEARL HARBOR star has been roped in to perform at London’s 24 Hour Plays Gala. Spacey has assembled a stellar cast of...

SIMI-LEBRITIES: World’s Most Realistic Robot Likely Killed At The End Of American Beauty

On the left, a disembodied androgynous robotic head named Jules that can automatically copy human movements. On the right (the one with the goatee on his head), Oscar Winning actor Kevin Spacey… Coincidence? OR CONSPIRACY? They...

John Gibson: Lowe's on a real high in George Street

Published Date: 12 November 2008 GOT the whole world in his hands. Well, not exactly. But Billy Lowe does own Le Monde, the city centre bar/restaurant/hotel that's given him the foothold in George Street he'd craved for ten...

Fred Claus

Rent It THE FILM Isn't there a verse in Revelations that proclaims when Tim Allen makes a funnier Christmas movie than Vince Vaughn, end times are a-comin'? Fred Claus (Vince Vaughn) is a fast-talking loser with big plans for a...

What to say about ... Pete Postlethwaite's King Lear

You forgot to book tickets for the sold-out King Lear at Liverpool's Everyman but you can still impress your friends by paraphrasing the critics "A mildy angry Rotary club president" ... Pete Postlethwaite as King Lear....

Sacks of fun

Some of the most entertaining and popular video games of the past few years are ones that let game players also be game designers. Now Sony has entered the build-it-yourself arena with an intriguing game called "LittleBigPlanet."

The 7 Deadly Sins of Online Gaming

The only person who loves lists more than Cracked is the Lord of Hosts: You’ve got The Ten Commandments, The Seven Deadly Sins and if I’m not mistaken, The Six Moderately Detrimental Sins (my favorite is “lying about...

Matt Wolf: Evening Standard awards snub the West End

Evening Standard awards snub commercial theatre This year's shortlist gives the West End short shrift Andrea Riseborough and Kenneth Branagh in Ivanov. Photograph: Tristram Kenton Don't be put off if you didn't see much from...

Dublin's early Xmas lights failing to dispel high street gloom

Irish shoppers powered the fastest-growing economy in Western Europe over the last five years. Gerry Harvey, chairman of Sydney-based electronics and furniture retailer Harvey Norman Holdings Ltd., which has four Dublin stores,...