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The Rise of the Rinsers We’ve all seen a sugar-daddy with a young lady attached to his arm. That old joke, ‘so what do you see in millionaire Joe Bloggs?’ springs to mind.
There’s a new breed of young lady who doesn’t even want to spend any time with their potential golden goose as all of it can be done on the internet and at arms length. It is no doubt safer for the lady and if rich men want to give them stuff for the odd email, then I don’t see much harm in it. These women are called ‘Rinsers’ and they use their feminine charms to get rich men to send them gifts and fund their lifestyles. Setting up Twitter and Facebook accounts the ladies offer virtual friendship for their wealthy admirers. These Rinsers will rarely meet their fans and if it brings some satisfaction to these wealthy men as well, otherwise they wouldn’t do it. Paying half in any divorce settlement to a wife must also weight heavy on their minds and so for a sum of a few gifts here and there perhaps you can see the attraction. Cartier gold watches, lavish holidays, boob jobs and as much designer goods that you can shake a stick at, the girls seem happy enough. ‘I do nice things for my friends and I don’t expect them to have sex with me’ says Rinser Jeanette. With their wish lists posted on their websites as well as their Amazon accounts, the girls can take in serious money. Danica Thrall, has taken in 20 grand in 3 months. ‘Guys have all kinds of fantasies and things that they find a bit of a turn on. And I think one of them is buying gifts for girls,’ she says. 42
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Jeanette from Liverpool has been Rinsing for two years and has built up a large list of rich admirers including Manchester City striker, Mario Balotelli. Dressed to the nine’s in designer clothes all supplied for free. Their fans tend to be older business men and the odd divorcee. Younger males are a rarity apart from the odd footballer. It’s not all glamorous lives for these rinsers, some just want to be able to make ends meet. Hollie from Nottingham makes about a grand a month and sells any gifts she gets on ebay. ‘ What’s the point in scrimping and saving for all of your life when a muppet down the road is going to pay you £1,000 a month to live like a princess,’ she says. This lack of respect for their clients seems to prevail in most of the girls. Jeanette from Liverpool adds ‘I’m not doing anything wrong, I’m not breaking any laws. If people are going to fall for it it’s their problem... They’re stupid.’ Honestly, she continues ‘I didn’t realise there was
another way for us sisters nowadays, not quite prostitution but… a new breed of women called “Rinsers”. Why the hell am I going out to work for my money when I could sit on my lazy ass and get some rich man to buy everything for me. All I would need is a pair of fake boobs, orange tanned skin, long blonde hair and guess what? I wouldn’t have to sleep with them in return.’
quarters and feminist groups are already calling the whole process ‘demeaning’. But if both sides are happy with what they do then I can’t see the harm in it. It’s considerably more innocent (and romantic) than spending money on escorts. So is it empowering? To some extent yes. As long of the rinsers remember to store for the rainy days when their looks start to fade, then why not make the most of it? If they rely on money from the clients, overspend and get into debt then they’ll be heading for a fall. But that’s the same in all walks of life.
Oddly though she seems not to have cottoned on to her situation saying ‘I am a firm believer that women should be independent and never rely on a man for anything.’ Huh? So what do the men get from the rinsers? From all accounts, the odd Tweet or text message. The Rinsers themselves say there’s nothing sexual but in the days of the internet what does sexual really mean? No physical sexual contact? The majority of the rinsers won’t meet their clients, but some do for their special ones. Some of the rinsers work in the entertainment
Industry, featuring in the night-life of the largest cities in Britain and will make appearances in top city night clubs in order to drum up trade and give out their calling cards. These rinsers will no doubt get criticism from many different
I have a feeling that rinsers are here to stay. It’s early days yet and I think as these ladies get more professional, then any demeaning views of their clients will fade. The customer always comes first and they’ll soon know the difference between the different rinsers. The ones who continue with the ‘muppet’ outlook will fade away because there will be plenty of ladies only too pleased to receive gifts and money from their admirers. The customer is king and that’s the rule in all walks of life.
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n e e w o l l Ha Vampire Diseases and other Weird Afflictions
Necrotizing Fascilitis This is a terrible disease. Fortunately it is very rare, but the mortality rate of 73% is another awful characteristic of it. It is caused by bacteria that enters the skin through the smallest paths, and once it gets in, it never gets out. The bacteria then starts to eat its way through the body. The skin looks rusty, but in extreme, even losing body parts is a possibility.
Pain from the sun There are people out there who go to great lengths to avoid the sun. If they are caught in the sun, their skin will blister. Some of them have pain and blistering as soon as the sun touches their skin. Ok, so they’re not actually vampires. They don’t drink blood and sleep in coffins, but they do suffer from a rare disease that has vampire-like symptoms
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Walking Corpse Syndrome: they believe to have died It is a syndrome of mental depression and suicidal tendencies, in which the patient complains of having lost everything: possessions, part of or entire body, often believing that he or she has died and is a walking corpse. This delusion is usually expanded to the degree that the patient might claim that he can smell his own rotting flesh and feel worms crawling through his skin. The latter phenomenon is a recurring experience of people chronically deprived of sleep or suffering amphetamine/cocaine psychosis. Paradoxically, being “dead” often gives the patient the nation of being immortal.
Aquagenic Urticaria (water allergy) Commonly known as water allergy, although it’s not actually an allergy at all. It is a very rare disease in which the patient becomes sensitive to non-distilled water what means feeling great pain when in contact with it. The worst part is that they mustn’t cry if they don’t want their pain to grow, as tears have the same effect. Unfortunately, there’s no cure yet.
Hypertrichosis or Human Werewolf Syndrome This is a disorder which results in the growth of body hair that is particularly abnormal. There are two types of the disease: the first one shows hair covering certain areas of the body, the other one – the entire body. There is no cure that prevents the hair growth and all patients can do is try to remove the body hair by laser or hair removal products.
Exploding Head Syndrome If you thought this was when you feel like your head would explode when you had a headache, you were wrong. Patients with exploding head syndrome hear explosions, gunshots, screams and other noises, causing anxiety, fear and increasing heart rate. All of this happens 2-3 hours after falling asleep. Although this syndrome’s etiology is still unknown, there are some findings that it is related with stress and fatigue, so there are a lot of medicaments that clear the explosions the head.
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UFO... a word which creates many different feelings. Unidentified flying object. They’ve amazed people for the last fifty years, they’ve been subject to varied speculation about what they are and they’ve featured in the entertainment industry for some of the finest films ever made.
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In the 40’s and 50’s UFOs were all about ‘Invaders from Mars’ and how they crash landed at the bottom of your garden and how your parents would go down to check it out and they’d come back...changed. Those were the cool times...when you felt there really was something out there. But as you get older you soon realised that all that invaders from Red Mars was mirroring the fears of Red communism and it all became a bit dull.
So there were some people willing to testify to say that they had seen bodies at the site but who knows what they saw? What we do know is that the cover up by the authorities was so badly done that no wonder all sorts of speculation followed. An experimental weather balloon was blamed and a officer at the base was pictured showing some silver foil which was supposedly the crashed ship. Now there’s every chance that the whole event was an experimental craft crash landing and some bright spark thought they could cover it up by coming up with the crashed alien ship theory. It didn’t work. And the rest was history.
In the 60’s there were plenty of movies about space, but they were all about home made dangers, of Hal and the ship’s computer, or of man-made destroyed futures where apes rule the earth. The 70’s and 80’s brought some nice aliens with ‘Close encounters of the Third kind’ and ‘E.T the Extra Terrestrial’ and some particularly nasty aliens in the shape of ‘Alien’ and ‘The Thing’.
So what are they? Are UFOs anything to do with creatures from another world? Or are they based closer to home? I guess we should start at one of the most famous UFO cases of them all...
The Roswell crash In 1947, a press release was issued that a UFO had crashed out in the New Mexico desert, and that bodies had been found at the crash site. This is the founding moment of all UFO interest in the past 60 years. Subsequently denied after the incident, all mention of an alien craft let alone bodies inside was completely covered up.
Since then there have been dodgy ‘recovered’ film from the site and of alien autopsies which look about as convincing as any amateur student film would do. Hey if it makes a few quid then fair play...now where’s that camera?
But was this the first sighting? Well as it turns out, UFOs have been seen throughout history. Carved in hieroglyphs from Ancient Egypt, they appear in the background of renaissance paintings and are mentioned in a multitude of different writings throughout the ages. Some commentators have mentioned that the whole idea of Angels and Chariots in the sky are in fact early sightings of the UFO phenomena. With the advent of camera’s UFOs became easier to document and yet despite some pretty decent photographs people still deny that there’s anything strange going on. One of the most famous religious events in the last hundred years is the Fatima case in the 1920’s, where 3 girls went walking up in the mountains of Portugal and spoke to an ‘angel’ who gave them prophecies about the end of the world. This angel appeared 3 times and then flew off to the sky. Yeah right, you might say, this is just over religious kids wanting to get some attention. The problem with that though, is by the third visitation by the angel the crowd was up to about 20 thousand people and their description was more like an alien visitation than an angelic one. 47
So what are UFOs? There have been many different ideas and now we’ll go through these different theories and see what’s the most feasible.
in the sky. At first there’s panic but after 70 years of it doing nothing apart from sending out the odd bit of technology to benefit the world, the aliens finally reveal themselves and they look like an a typical ‘demon’ with red skin and horns. Because of the aliens good intentions and lack of threat , then people accept these creatures that look like demons without comment. If they had revealed themselves straight away then panic and hysteria would have resulted.
Natural phenomena Some people have talked about the UFOs being balls of light, which build up in the earths mantle through the movement of the fault lines. UFOs are often seen before and during the time of earthquakes and some researchers have concluded that this build of electricity creates the balls of light that are seen shooting around in the sky. Personally I think this can account for quite a few of the UFOs which are spotted in the skies. But it certainly does not explain all of them.
There are those who don’t believe in aliens. I’m not one of them. The statistics that our solar system is like a grain of sand and all the other solar systems make up the Sahara desert then the law of probability says that there must be some other life forms out there. As the Earth itself has 1.6 million different species then this can only further enhance that we are not alone. Part of the theory of the alien craft is that mankind has taken the technology and made it ours. Creating computers and television and all the cool stuff. I don’t buy that argument either because there were advancements on all our current technology way before 1947 and Roswell such as the work of Nicolai Tesla and others.
Alien craft So are these UFOs alien craft from another world? And if they are why land in the middle of nowhere and never seek human contact? Surely if you’re from another world you may want to speak to the leaders of the world you’ve travelled to? And landing in the back of beyond doesn’t seem the best way to do it. They surely can’t be that inept? There is a theory that they don’t land on the white house lawn because they don’t want to create mass panic. As they seem to be advanced beings (as they’ve travelled through the universe to get here) then they’re complying to some code of ethics on how to treat less advanced life forms. ‘Childhood’s end’ by Arthur C Clarke goes into this idea where a huge mother ship turns up and just sits there 48
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The whole argument about the crashed alien craft is also undermined by the time scale. If we were back in 1947 and we were reading about the crash then we’d surely expect more and yet there’s been nothing in over 65 years. So for now we’ll put that one on the back burner.
The people most likely to see ufos are airline pilots who travel the skies for work According to some organisations like the ‘Disclosure project’; the majority of pilots see UFOs and they just don’t report them in any more. I guess it’s a similar process to Clarke’s Childhood’s End where they become so common place that they’re barely worth mentioning any more. There’s also the backlash of ridicule from the media and let’s face it the public as well who have been programmed into thinking the same way. So while most pilots now remain quiet incredibly there are up to ten thousand reports of sightings every year.
So from these reported sightings and taped sightings throughout the world it’s clear that something is going on. Most will be natural phenomena but not all. So what else could it be? Beyond Top Secret You may have read about the secret operation the Germans were undertaking before and during World War 2, culminating in the V2 rocket which if allowed to come into full production could have changed the direction of the war after D-Day and maintained Germany’s dominance of mainland Europe. Now all those scientists including Von Braun went off to either Russia or America and they became the foundation of both of the superpowers Space. What isn’t so well known is that the Germans also were developing technology based on the work of Nicolai Tesla which basically meant that they could fly vertically upwards and have incredible manoeuvrability. What’s interesting about all this is that these flying machines were shaped like a typical flying saucer, made famous in the 50’s and was the same shape as that which crashed at Roswell. There’s a US patent of what looks like a flying saucer registered in the 1920’s and as Tesla was the guy who created modern day electricity with the AC/DC current back in the 1880’s he went on to refine his ideas 40 years later. This ‘flying saucer’ took solid shape under the Germans in the 1940’s and for all we know that technology was taken to both Russia and the United States when Germany was defeated. That was in the 1940’s and if you look on youtube you can see these things flying off the ground, then there’s every chance that they became more refined in the last 60 years and these prototypes are what we’ve been seeing in the skies ever since. Defying
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the laws of physics and moving vertically with incredible speed certainly describes what Tesla and the Germans after him were working on. So with this in mind, you have to ask yourself, why the need for secrecy about this new technology? Why bother with everyday technology such as air-planes, space shuttles and the like when you can use this advanced tec? We’ll probably never know but speculation will no doubt continue. The recent extradition process of Gary Mckinnon is in the news at the moment, and he also wanted to know if the ‘truth was out there’, so he hacked into the pentagon to look for any proof of UFOs. What he found is probably what got him in so much trouble as not only did he find lists of terrestrial officers, he also found a list of officers off planet and as we’re only supposed to have the international space station (and those officers were not on that) the seekers of the truth went wild.
First Contact As mentioned before, one of the main problems with the ‘alien craft crash lands’ themes is that the aliens have not made a reappearance afterwards. But some researchers would have you believe that they have and are currently speaking to ‘our leaders’ and have been doing do for decades. Timothy Good talks about how aliens were cooperating with the united states military on condition that no weapons were carried in their presence. This was fine until a young rookie freaked when he first saw the aliens and overreacted, the alien in the room killed him with a glance. Theories of UFOs connected with alien abduction are also rife in the alternative media, theories of deals to allow medical experiments on cattle have been mentioned. There is also a distinct possibility that these ‘abductors’ couldn’t care less for man made laws and they’ll just do their thing anyway. But that’s another tale.
Conclusion Judging by the theories of the 3 main areas of speculation about UFOs there is every chance that there is something behind all the three. That natural phenomena can explain a vast majority of the glowing orb variety of UFOs, that secret military aircraft such as stealth and the more advanced and speculative technologies could certainly explain the rest. But there will always be a tiny percentage of real unidentified flying objects and maybe perhaps maybe they’re visitors from another world.
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Over the last few years, many celebrities and noncelebrities alike have been following the bizarre and unsightly fashion of ‘Sagging!’ So you’ve all seen the fashion videos and photo shoots where the male models show the make of whichever pants they’re wearing. Usually shot in black and white it’s all very tastefully done which spills over into the high street and all impressionable fashionistas wear the same. Armani, Hugo Boss etc. are all names to be connected with and ladies respond to them (wearing those cheap imitations from the Chinese with names like ‘Chang er’ seriously don’t impress!) So fair enough, you spend a bit on decent boxers so why not show the world that you’ve got em on? The problem kicks in when you go one step further, become a fashion victim and get into ‘sagging’. You’ve seen the teens walking around with trousers below their waist, revealing most of their underwear. Not only is their arse hanging out it’s probably one of the most stupid looking fashion styles ever. It really is a case of ‘the emperor’s new clothes’, while wearing something that you think looks cool and everyone else thinks you’re a fool. There are several different ideas for the origins of looking like a fool. Most of them come from prison 52
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life. Prisoners are not allowed belts in order to stop inmates hang themselves and so their pants fell down, as many prisoners are supplied ill fitting clothes the whole ‘sagging’ look shows the mark of a man who has served time. The low slung pants then came from the ‘cool’ look of the inmate. Yep dead cool being incarcerated for life in San Quentin.
This was first popularised by Gangster Rappers like Ice T and Ice Cube in the 90’s, along with drive bys and drug use which also all went through the roof when it became ‘popular’. Malcolm X and Martin Luther Kings use of peaceful means didn’t get a look in. Good for prison business too. As each prisoner had to constantly hitch their clothes up this became part of their walk which in itself became part of the whole Original gangster theme.
Other ideas for the origin of sagging comes from the idea that it was in protest by others if another prisoner was unjustly put on suicide watch and put under restriction. The other prisoners would wear their trousers down low to protest the treatment of their friend. Another obvious explanation is their trousers are baggy to hide weapons if they’re doing their thing out on the streets. Another theory is of wearing the jeans so low to show you’re available to homosexual advances in prisons. Greg Mathis researched this and found that “those who pulled their pants down the lowest and showed their behind a little more raw, that was an invitation”. Straight convicts would tuck in their shirts and Latinos would pull their pants even higher up. It’s more likely to be the lack of belt theory which holds the most substance and over the years the whole look has become a symbol of freedom and cultural awareness for African American men. Because of its vulgar look it is said to be a ‘rejection of the values of mainstream society’.
Banned in a lot of schools as well as it went against their dress codes, resulting in some school suspensions. Some flights have also banned people dressed in their ‘arse bearing’ attire.
right? No more worrying about people running away when they’re jeans are tripping them up around their ankles!
In the most extreme case 20-yearold LaMarcus Ramsey was sentenced to 3 days in jail in April 2012, for showing up and as the judge remarked ‘showing his butt in court’. Brings a whole new meaning to ‘dumb ass’ I guess. All these attempts at banning the fashion have effectively failed. Some nice fines have been introduced and so at least some money goes back into the community but ultimately any ban only makes the thing in question even more popular as it now has notoriety as well. One thing to note though is that there’s no fashion designed around the clever criminals who get away with it. Even the limits of the fashion itself is well suspect. ‘Sagging’ must have been designed by the police
Multiple U.S. States has tried to ban ‘Sagging’ with varied success. Even the president Barack Obama got in the act and showed his dismay saying “brothers should pull up their pants. You are walking by your mother, your grandmother, your underwear is showing. What’s wrong with that? Come on. Some people might not want to see your underwear. I’m one of them.”
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Food & Drink where to wine & dine
Grill del Puerto Primera Linea / Front-line Puerto Banus - Next to Picasso. Telephone: 952 811 686
Grill del Puerto is situated in a beatuiful location on the front-line of the port in Puerto Banus. It is a cosy and romantic restaurant with a lovely atmosphere. The food, the service, the music, and the feel good ambience will leave you wanting to dine there time and time again! Grill del Puerto specialises in Chateaubriand served on a small charcoal grill on your table, allowing you to prepare your own meat just how you like it. The menu offers international cuisine including delicious Belgian dishes. There is also a good range of vegetarian choices. All the food here is homemade, using high-quality fresh ingredients. The prices are very reasonable – delicious food at great value. Make sure you check out their extensive wine list which the waiters will go through with you to help you choose the best wines to accompany your meal. The restaurant is now taking bookings for Christmas and New Year, so make sure you book early to avoid disappointment!
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The Beach House Restaurant, Urb. Coto de los Dolores Carril del Relojero, Elviria, 29604, Marbella +34 952 83 94 58 www.marbellabeachhouse.com
Oscar’s Restaurant Next to The Hogan Stand
Oscar’s Restaurant in San Pedro is a wonderful place where you can enjoy delicious international food. Dine indoors in our contemporary surroundings or outdoors on our large terrace.
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Grill El Rancho in Las Chapas to the East of Marbella is known as one of the best grill restaurants on the coast. Open every day and until 1am in the summer, El Rancho specialises in Chateaubriand and stone grilled meats, so it definitely is a meat lover’s paradise. There are also plenty of vegetarian dishes.
Grill El Rancho has a beautiful terrace, perfect for outside dining on warm summer nights and then a very cosy restaurant for those colder winter days. The rustic decoration, mixed with hints of modern touches and the chilled, relaxed atmosphere ensures you’ll have a great dining experience whenever you visit the restaurant. There is a special daily three course menu for €17.50 and different summer specials. The varied menu includes hot and cold starters of gazpacho, salmon tartar, beef carpaccio, prawns pil pil, tempura prawns and deep fried camembert as well as many others. The main course menu offers the speciality meats cooked on the stone which diners do themselves; a selection of meats including suckling pig cooked on the grill or roasted;
hot pots, slowly cooked the old fashioned way; a choice of fish and pastas; and vegetarian dishes. The extensive wine list compliments the menu and features wines from all over Spain as well as Cava and Champagne - all of which are very affordable and the waiters can help you choose a wine to accompany your meal. The restaurant offers different dining areas, including; the Tiffany Room, perfect for private lunches, dinners and celebrations; a private Wine Corner, for parties between 6/8 people; and the Gin Corner where you can sample an extensive and exclusive choice of gins. There is also a smoking terrace which is heated for those chilly evenings. Valet parking is also available.
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This is a perfect meal for when you don’t have time to spend hours in the kitchen. Using just a few ingredients and minimal preparation, this simple recipe provides a tasty, filling meal!
Ingredients:
• 1 tbsp olive oil • 4 boneless skinless chicken breas ts • 200g pack cherry tomato es • 3 tbsp pesto • 3 tbsp crèm e fraîche (half fat is fin e) • Fresh basil
Serves 4
DIRECTIONS: • Heat the oil in a frying pan, preferably non-stick. Add the chicken and fry without moving it until it takes on a bit of colour. Turn the chicken and cook on the other side. Continue cooking for 12-15 mins until the chicken is cooked through. Season all over with a little salt and pepper. • Halve the tomatoes and throw them into the pan, stirring them around for a couple of minutes until they start to soften. Reduce the heat and stir in the pesto and crème fraîche until it makes a sauce. Scatter with a few basil leaves if you have them, then serve with rice and salad or mash and broccoli.
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Film Reviews
This month’s cinema releases
Taken 2
Argo
Cast: Daniel Craig, Helen McCrory, Javier Bardem.
Cast: Alan Arkin, John Goodman , Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, Scoot McNairy, Kyle Chandler.
Director: Sam Mendes. Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller. About the film: Details of the new James Bond movie – ‘Skyfall’ – have been leaking gradually. What do we know? Most importantly, Daniel Craig will be back for more as 007, which is good news as, even if ‘Quantum of Solace’ was a disappointment for many, most Bond fans agree that Craig, who joined the party for ‘Casino Royale’, has brought new energy to the world’s oldest film franchise. We also know that the series’s third director in as many films: British film and theatre director Sam Mendes – best known for ‘American Beauty’ and ‘Revolutionary Road’ – takes over the reins from Marc Forster. Mendes and Craig have worked together before on ‘Road to Perdition’ and are known to have a good rapport. Known locations are Shanghai, Turkey and Duntrune Castle in Argyll, Scotland, while Judi Dench will join Bond newbies Javier Bardem, Naomie Harris, Ben Wishaw, Albert Finney and Ralph Fiennes in the cast. n
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Director: Ben Affleck. Genre: Drama, Comedy, political.
The Big Wedding Cast: Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton, Katherine Heigl, Amanda Seyfried, Topher Grace, Robin Williams. Director: Justin Zackman. Genre: Comedy. About the film: ‘The Bucket List’ scribe Justin Zackham writes and directs this comedy about a divorced couple who pretend to be happily married for the wedding of their adopted son (Ben Barnes) and his fiancée (Amanda Seyfried). Robert De Niro and Diane Keaton take centre stage as the long-divorced pair while Robin Williams is the comedy priest and Katherine Heigl the disgruntled guest dismayed by the presence of her ex. Perhaps more promising is the casting of Susan Sarandon, who plays De Niro’s girlfriend Bebe. n
About the film: After ‘Gone Baby Gone’ and ‘The Town’, hopes are cautiously high for any Ben Affleck-directed film and this one has a strong true-story basis to boot. The setting is the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, during which the US and Canadian governments concocted a bold plan to free the six US diplomats being held hostage at their embassy in Iran. Affleck also stars alongside a stellar cast including Bryan Cranston, John Goodman, Alan Arkin and others. n
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Cloud Atlas
Cast: Daniel Craig, Helen McCrory, Javier Bardem.
Cast: Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant, Susan Sarandon, Hugo Weaving, Jim Sturgess.
Director: Sam Mendes.
Directors: Tom Tykwer, Andy Wachowski.
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller. About the film: Details of the new James Bond movie – ‘Skyfall’ – have been leaking gradually. What do we know? Most importantly, Daniel Craig will be back for more as 007, which is good news as, even if ‘Quantum of Solace’ was a disappointment for many, most Bond fans agree that Craig, who joined the party for ‘Casino Royale’, has brought new energy to the world’s oldest film franchise. We also know that the series’s third director in as many films: British film and theatre director Sam Mendes – best known for ‘American Beauty’ and ‘Revolutionary Road’ – takes over the reins from Marc Forster. Mendes and Craig have worked together before on ‘Road to Perdition’ and are known to have a good rapport. Known locations are Shanghai, Turkey and Duntrune Castle in Argyll, Scotland, while Judi Dench will join Bond newbies Javier Bardem, Naomie Harris, Ben Wishaw, Albert Finney and Ralph Fiennes in the cast. n
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi. About the film: An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution. n
Frankenweenie Cast: Charlie Tahan, Winona Ryder, Martin Landau, Catherine O’Hara, Martin Short. Director: Tim Burton Genre: Animation, Comedy. About the film: Tim Burton has spent 2011 making two new films. The first is being shot in LA, a live action film starring Johnny Depp which (per early production stills) displays an uncanny resemblance to ‘The Addams Family’. The other is being shot in the UK, a stop-motion animation that’s a remake of his controversial first short made for (and shelved by) Disney in 1984, ‘Frankenweenie’. Having visited the set of the film, Time Out can confirm that all the immaculate craftsmanship that went in to films like ‘Corpse Bride’ and ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’ remains in this feature-length retooling of a story about a young boy who discovers a way of bringing his dog, Sparky, back to life after he’s killed in a car accident. Considering the massive toil of making the film, it’s not due to his cinemas until the end of 2012, but what we can deduce from the snippets we’ve seen so far is that it looks like it could be Burton’s best in a very long time. n
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Fun Size Cast: Johnny Knoxville, Victoria Justice, Chelsea Handler, Thomas Mann. Director: Josh Schwartz. Genre: Comedy.
Silent Hill: Revelation 3D
About the film: A missing little brother is not what you need on Hallowe’en, but that’s just what smart-talking teenaged girl Wren (actress and singer Victoria Justice) gets in this all-American comedy. Desperate to find him before her mother finds out he’s missing, she no doubt gets into all sorts of crazy costume and trick-or-treat-based scrapes. It’s a debut feature from ‘Gossip Girl’ scribe Josh Schwartz and features turns from ‘Jackass’ star Johnny Knoxville and US stand-up comedian/chat show host Chelsea Handler among others. n
Cast: Sean Bean, Radha Mitchell, Carrie-Anne Moss, Adelaide Clemens. Director: Michael J. Bassett. Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller. About the film: Heather Mason and her father have been on the run, always one step ahead of dangerous forces that she doesn’t fully understand, Now on the eve of her 18th birthday, plagued by horrific nightmares and the disappearance of her father, Heather discovers she’s not who she thinks she is. The revelation leads her deeper into a demonic world that threatens to trap her forever. n
Paranormal Activity 4 Cast: Katie Featherston, Kathryn Newton, Matt Shively. Directors: Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman. Genre: Horror. About the film: The film features Katie Featherston, who has starred in all three previous films. The film is a sequel to Paranormal Activity 2, and the fourth film in the Paranormal Activity film series picking up a few years after where it left off. The film takes place five years after Paranormal Activity 2, which ended with Katie kidnapping Hunter. Now, Katie and Hunter (now called ‘Robbie’) have moved into a new house and their neighbours, Alice and her mother, begin experiencing paranormal events taking place in their home. n 62
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Did you know... • The cat held by Marlon Brando in the opening scene of The Godfather was not written into the scene. Marlon found the stray wandering around the Paramount Lot just before the scene was shot. • In the movie Toy Story, the carpet designs in Sid’s hallway is the same as the carpet designs in “The Shining.” • In The Great Escape, the cast includes one genuine WWII PoW in Donald Pleasence, who had been shot down during a raid on Agenville and imprisoned for a year in a Stalag Luft, where he produced and acted in plays. • In Black Swan, Natalie Portman dislocated her rib during production and discovered that the film’s budget was so low they couldn’t afford a medic. The actress gave up her trailer so one could be hired.
Local man hits the Big Screen Friend and local Marbella resident, Kim Kold has hit the big screen. Formerly head of security for a Costa del Sol security firm, Kim has made it big by landing a role in the new Fast & Furious 6 due for release in 2013. He has also been signed up to star in Fast & Furious 7 which is a prequel to Fast & Furious 6. Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and Dwayne Johnson return for the next instalment of Universal’s car-racing/heist franchise. Dominic (Diesel), Brian (Walker) and the crew find themselves on the wrong side of the law once again as they try to pull off a high-octane heist on the streets of Europe with federal agent Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) hot on their tails. Make sure you keep an eye out for Kim who you’ll find hard to miss (he’s the one who makes Vin Diesel and ‘The Rock’ look small in comparison), as this will hopefully be the beginning a great movie career for him.
Good Luck Kim!
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Maggie Grace is a 28 year old American actress. She was cast as Shannon Rutherford in the television series Lost, on which she was a main cast member for the first two seasons, winning a Screen Actors Guild Award shared with the ensemble cast. Leaving the series, Grace was keen to work more prominently in film, having starred opposite Tom Welling in The Fog in 2005. She appeared in Suburban Girl, The Jane Austen Book Club (both 2007), and Taken (2008). She has the lead role of Alice in Malice in Wonderland, a modern take on Lewis Carroll’s novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Grace reprised the role of Shannon in two more episodes of Lost, including the series finale. In 2005, she was named one of Maxim’s Hot 100 and included in FHM’s 100 Sexiest Women in the World.
Things you didn’t know about her 1) She’s 5ft 9in. 2) She is a self-proclaimed anglophile, having written to a pen pal in the Lake District from the age of eight, having first visited England at 13 years old, and admiring a number of British poets as well as William Shakespeare. 3) She calls herself very clumsy, claiming to “trip over my legs all the time”. 4) She was jokingly nicknamed “Maggie Graceless” by one of her former castmates.
Catch Maggie in Taken 2
Halle Berry
Maggie Grace
Halle Berry is a 46 year old American actress and a former fashion model. She is one of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood and has been involved in the production side of several of the films in which she performed. She is also a Revlon spokes model. She made her film debut with a small role in 1991’s Jungle Fever. This led to starring roles in The Flintstones (1994), Race the Sun (1996), Bulworth (1998), X-Men (2000) and its sequels, and as Bond Girl Jinx in Die Another Day (2002). She also won the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress in 2005 for Catwoman. In October 2008, she was named Esquire magazine’s “Sexiest Woman Alive”, about which she stated “I don’t know exactly what it means, but being 42 and having just had a baby, I think I’ll take it.
Things you didn’t know about her 1) She is 5ft 7in.
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Katherine Heigl
Katherine Heigl is a 33 year old American actress and producer. She has starred in films such as Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, Knocked Up, Zyzzyx Road, 27 Dresses, The Ugly Truth, Killers, Life As We Know It, New Year’s Eve, The Bride of Chucky and One for the Money to name only a few. She gained notoriety as Dr. Izzie Stevens in the hit television series, Greys Anatomy. She has established herself as a cover model appearing on numerous publications including Maxim, Vanity Fair and Cosmopolitan. She also appeared in the FHM and Maxim calendars, FHM’s annual “100 Sexiest Women in the World”, and was featured in the Girls of Maxim Gallery. In May 2006, Maxim awarded her #12 on their annual Hot 100List as well as voted the 19th “Sexiest Woman in the World” by readers of FHM magazine.
Things you didn’t know about her 1) She’s 5ft 9in. 2) She was announced the Most Desirable Woman of 2008, according to AskMen.com. 3) She started working as a child model when she was 9 years old. 4) She plays the cello. 5) She loves animals and is involved in fund raising and actively involved in a foundation that rescues dogs and provides rehabilitation.
Catch Katherine and Amanda in The Big Wedding Amanda Seyfried is a 26 year old American actress, singersongwriter, and model. She appeared in her breakthrough role in the 2008 musical feature film Mamma Mia!. Other appearances include leading roles in Jennifer’s Body (2009), Chloe (2009), Dear John (2010), Letters to Juliet (2010), Red Riding Hood (2011), In Time (2011) and Gone (2012). In 2009, People magazine ranked her No. 4 in the Most Beautiful 2009 – Beautiful at Every Age She also, once again, made the list of People magazine’s Most Beautiful 2010 with no make-up on. In 2010, she ranked number 3 on the Saturday Night Magazine’s Top 20 Rising Stars Under 30 and at the No. 17 spot in the British Glamour magazine “30 Hottest and Sexiest Stars Under 30”. Glamour magazine’s April 2010 issue dubbed her as The Most Down-To-Earth and ranked No. 3 in the “50 Most Glamorous Women of 2010”.
About Amanda: 1) She’s 5ft 3in. 2) H er other career choice may have been meteorology. She admits being fascinated by weather. 3) When not acting, her hobbies include tennis and collecting jeans.
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Video Game Reviews
Skylanders Giants
Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit Hell Yeah! follows skeletal rabbit Ash, prince of the underworld, on his quest to destroy the paparazzi responsible for his dirty-photo leak. The game is all about the thrill of the kill, as demonstrated by the launch trailer below. Players can equip Ash with an assortment of deadly vehicles and guns for use against the 100 monsters in the path of his revenge. Platforms: Xbox 360, Playstation 3, PC. n
007 Legends 007 Legends ties together five classic Bond movies and his latest outing, Skyfall, in one video game. Platforms: Xbox 360, Playstation 3. n
Assassins Creed 3 Liberation Set against the backdrop of the American Revolution in the late 18th century, Assassin’s Creed III introduces a new hero, Ratohnhaké:ton, of Native American and English heritage. Adopting the name Connor, he becomes the new voice for justice in the ancient war between the Assassins and Templars. Players become an Assassin in the war for liberty against ruthless tyranny in the most stylized and fluid combat experiences in the franchise to date. Assassin’s Creed III spans the Revolutionary War, taking gamers from the vibrant, untamed frontier to bustling colonial towns and the intense, chaotic battlefields where George Washington’s Continental Army clashed with the imposing British Army. Platforms: Xbox 360, Playstation 3, PC. n
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The follow-up to the blockbuster Skylanders Spyro’s Adventure, Skylanders Giants builds upon the breakthrough fundamentals of the first game, once again merging the physical and virtual realms with an innovative line of cross-platform toy figures that have “brains,” which players everywhere can magically bring to life in the world of Skylands. This second instalment of the franchise features a variety of new characters, new challenges and a thrilling new story-driven adventure. Skylanders Giants introduces sixteen new collectible figures, including the massive Giants which tower more than twice the size of the main Skylanders cast! The Skylanders series uniquely combines collectible real-world toys with an epic virtual game world, and this second game is fully backwards-compatible with previous Skylanders toy sets while introducing a whole new world of collectible fun for fans of the franchise. Platforms: Wii, 3 DS, Xbox 360, Playstation 3, PC, MAC.
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Resident Evil 6 It has been ten years since the Raccoon City incident and the President of the United States has decided to reveal the truth behind what took place in the belief that it will curb the current resurgence in bioterrorist activity. Due to be by the President’s side is his personal friend and Raccoon City survivor, Leon S. Kennedy, but when the venue suffers a bioterrorist attack, Leon is forced to face a President transformed beyond recognition and make his hardest ever decision. At the same time, Bioterrorism Security Assessment Alliance member Chris Redfield arrives in China, itself under threat of a bioterrorist attack. With no country safe from these attacks and the ensuing outbreaks, the entire world’s population is united by a common fear that there is no hope left. Resident Evil 6 promises yet another dramatic, frightening experience blending action and survival horror. In a first for the franchise, RE 6 sees series favourites Leon and Chris come together to face this unprecedented threat. They are joined by new characters, each with their own unique perspective and involvement, in this relentless outbreak enacted on a global scale.
World Rally Championship 3 WRC 3 lets you take part in Rally Monte Carlo, Swedish Rally, Rally of Turkey, Rally New Zealand, Rally Argentina, Acropolis Rally, Cyprus Rally, Rally Deutschland, Rally Finland, Rally Australia, Rally Sanremo, Rally De France, Rally Catalunya and Wales Rally GB, each with up to nine lengthy race tracks (some taking up to ten minutes to get through from start to finish). Teams include Peugeot Total, Ford Motor Company, Mitsubishi Motors Sports, Subaru World Rally Team, Skoda Motor Sport, Hyundai World Rally Team and Citroen Total. Your favourite drivers are included as well, of course. The emphasis on realism carries over from previous games throughout all aspects of WRC3. Driving physics are more realistic than ever, with cars reacting to every bump on the road, and even flipping over if things get too rough. Presentation should keep rally fans happy, with long views of the digital versions of all the famous courses, lots of dust kicking up with every motion, and a very specific co-pilot directing you as you drive. Platforms: Xbox 360, Playstation 3, PC, Playstation Vita.
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Dishonored Dishonored is set in Dunwall, an industrial whaling city where strange steampunk- inspired technology and otherworldly forces coexist in the shadows. You are the once-trusted bodyguard of the beloved Empress. Framed for her murder, you become an infamous assassin, known only by the disturbing mask that has become your calling card. In a time of uncertainty, when the city is besieged by plague and ruled by a corrupt government armed with industrial technologies, dark forces conspire to bestow upon you abilities beyond those of any common man – but at what cost? The truth behind your betrayal is as murky as the waters surrounding the city, and the life you once had is gone forever. Platforms: Xbox 360, Playstation 3, PC.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown XCOM: Enemy Unknown will place you in control of a secret paramilitary organization called XCOM. As the XCOM commander, you will defend against a terrifying global alien invasion by managing resources, advancing technologies, and overseeing combat strategies and individual unit tactics. The original X-COM is widely regarded as one of the best games ever made and has now been re-imagined by the strategy experts at Firaxis Games. XCOM: Enemy Unknown will expand on that legacy with an entirely new invasion story, enemies and technologies to fight aliens and defend Earth. You will control the fate of the human race through researching alien technologies, creating and managing a fully operational base, planning combat missions and controlling soldier movement in battle. Platforms: Xbox 360, Playstation 3, PC, Playstation Vita.
Retro game
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Sonic the Hedgehog Released on 23rd June 1991, to provide Sega with a mascot to rival Nintendo’s flagship character Mario. Since then, Sonic has become one of the world’s best known video game characters, with his series having sold more than 80 million copies. Sonic the Hedgehog is a 2D side scrolling platform game in which Sonic must prevent the evil scientist Doctor Robotnik from taking over South Island, by collecting the six Chaos Emeralds and freeing the animals Dr. Robotnik has trapped inside robots. Sonic’s main means of attack is the Spin Attack, where Sonic curls into a ball which can be performed by jumping in the air, or by pressing down on the D-Pad while moving on the ground. The move is used to destroy enemies and other obstacles in his way.
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