While big-time Hollywood studios and investors throw massive piles of cash at CGI-filled slagheaps, many independent and first-time movie-makers are shooting films on shoestring budgets with the hope of hitting the jackpot. So, perhaps now the economy has nose-dived and easy credit is but an embarrassing memory we might have the serendipitous pleasure of seeing [...]

McDonald’s, the world’s largest food chain, is a staggering company. The figures speak for themselves: over 26,500 outlets in 119 countries serving around 39 million people every day and annual revenues of over $23 billion. But this success has not come without its fair share of criticism and controversy.
Serious critisicm of the company has grown [...]

Those crafty marketing executives know exactly what makes us tick: they take a picture of whichever ‘celebrity’ tosspot they think is currently ‘hot’ and slap it onto the advert for whatever overpriced piece of crap they’re trying to sell and like lobotomised, star-struck automatons we scurry along to the nearest sterile, over-lit shopping centre to [...]

With the US Presidential Election looming on the horizon in just a few short months and the campaign trail hotting up, the issues that are relevant to the American public are coming under scrutiny. It’s no wonder when you think just how many problems George W Bush will be leaving behind for the next lucky [...]

I was listening to a radio chat show yesterday, which I never normally do, but the host was ranting about clichés. Why we use them, what they mean and how they are generally annoying… and let’s face it they really are. We talk in clichés all the time while the person we happen to be [...]