Written by Mike Shaw
Published on 15 Jun 2010
The Fantasticks is the most curious production hosted in a major London theatre for some time.
Almost unheard of here, in the States it is the theatrical equivalent of a favourite old jumper. The show, with book and lyrics by Tom Jones (no, not that one) and music by Harvey Schmidt opened off Broadway in 1960 and ran for 42 years, before reopening in New York in 2006, where it is still going strong.
The story is a familiar one: two buffoonish fathers trick their children into falling in love by building a wall between their gardens and stage a mock rivalry, safe in the knowledge that their offspring will do the utmost to defy their parents. But of course, we know what they say about best laid plans, and it’s upon this point that the show pivots.
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Written by Mike Shaw
Published on 10 Jun 2010
It’s slowly crept onto people’s lists of favourite shows, and now season three of the hilarious US sitcom How I Met Your Your Mother is available to buy in the UK.
Lily and Marshall are settling into married life, and the series boasts guest appearances from a whole host of stars, including Britney Spears, Mandy Moore and Heidi Klum.
Click the DVD cover for an exclusive How I Met Your Mother clip.
Even more exciting than an exclusive clip, however, is our competition to give away five copies of the new series on DVD.
To win, just answer this simple question:
Which actress plays newsreader Robin Scherbatsky?
To enter, send your answers to competitions@the-void.co.uk by noon on June 11, 2010.
Good luck!
Written by Levte Lyton
Published on 01 Apr 2010
It’s one of the best disaster movies ever made it scared the bejesus out of cinemagoers last year.
Now, 2012 is out to own on Blu-ray and DVD and we’ve got three Blu-ray copies of the bad boy to give away.
Director Roland Emmerich is an old hand when it comes to the end of days, having already directed Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow, but he outdoes himself in this action thriller which boasts some of the best special effects you’ve ever seen.
To win a copy, just answer this simple question:
2012 star John Cusack also appeared in:
a. Empire Records
b. Ghost World
c. High Fidelity
Send your answers to competitions@the-void.co.uk before noon on April 30.
Good luck!
Written by Levte Lyton
Published on 18 Mar 2010
People talk about Knight Rider in hushed tones like no other 80s TV show can touch it, but those people are wrong.
The really cool kids didn’t care about Michael Knight and his fancy talking car, they were all about Jesse Mach and Street Hawk.
Jesse (played by the equally cool-named Rex Smith) is a police officer and former dirt-bike racer chosen to test a top-secret project — an all-terrain attack motorcycle capable of speeds of more than 300mph. How awesome is that?
Not only was Street Hawk way cooler than Knight Rider, but it had a better theme tune too – one written by Tangerine Dream.
Check out the clip below.
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Written by Dee Pilgrim
Published on 14 Mar 2010
This is a movie of two halves or, more accurately, two separate stories rather uncomfortably sandwiched together and it soon becomes clear which of the two steals the show as best jam butty.
In the blue corner is eccentric American cook Julia Child (Meryl Streep on magnificent braying form), living in post-war France with her diplomat hubby Paul (Stanley Tucci) and intent on becoming a proper French-style chef. In the red corner is frustrated New York writer Julia (Amy Adams) who, with nothing better to do with her time, decides to cook all 524 recipes from Julia Child’s cordon bleu cookery book and blog about it.
So, who ends up being the most entertaining? Julia Child of course. With her pearls, her booming voice, her sheer joie de vivre and her expert skill with a deboning knife, Streep makes Child a wonderfully warm woman; slightly bonkers but all the better for that. The picture director Nora Ephron paints of Julia’s relationship with her husband Paul is delightful, a marriage made in cake heaven with dollops and dollops of best French butter. Meanwhile, in comparison Julie and her husband (Chris Messina) come over as dull, colourless and without flavour.
Had Ephron been able to make a movie solely about Julia and Paul Child it would have been a marvellous thing to behold – a jelly in the shape of the Vatican perhaps, or an exploding Rum Baba – as it is, the scenes where Streep and Tucci are on screen are the ones to savour and mean half this movie is a fantastic feast.
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