Author: The Edge


  • Once Upon a Time in Rural Italy: The American

    The EDGE takes a look at Clooney’s latest filmic episode

  • Strictly Speaking…

    X-Factor VS Strictly – The War of Saturday Nights

  • “When I was a kid, I wanted to be farmer”: The EDGE catch up with Joel Pott, frontman from Athlete

    The EDGE chats to Athlete front man Joel Pott about career choices, Greatest Hits, and Skype-ing the kids

  • The Kinks – The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society

    They were the band who gazed on Waterloo sunsets, lazed on sunny afternoons in the summer time, and shared the delightful contents of their autumn almanac with their listeners. But on no other album is their quintessentially English pop-rock more obvious than on 1968’s The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society. Written after singer […]

  • The Tourist…ain’t worth the trip

    “Nauseatingly frothy and contrived” says THE EDGE.

  • Colin Firth is a class act: The King’s Speech

    It’s often underestimated that film, as well as being primarily a visual art, is incredibly concerned with the verbal. Cinema has provided us with some memorable rhetoric; Rutger Hauer’s dying speech to Harrison Ford in Blade Runner, Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator, and Daniel Day-Lewis’ demonic drawl in There Will Be Blood. We hang […]

  • Squeeze @ Southampton Guildhall, 6th December 2010

    Cool for cats – proof that they’ve still got it..

  • Everybody Needs Good Neighbours…

    Channel Five’s online catch-up service, Demand Five, describes Neighbours as ‘an essential part of student life’. Whilst this bold assertion could be nothing but a marketing ploy, for me (and a large number of my friends), it couldn’t be more accurate. So what makes a soap set in suburban Australia so irresistible to university students in […]

  • Coheed and Cambria @ Southampton Guildhall

    Coheed and Cambria get the job done in style at Southampton Guildhall, November 15th.

  • Chicago’s latest run. Apparently, they both reached for the gun.

    London’s Cambridge Theatre this year plays host to the longest-running, most-revived Broadway musical in the West End – Chicago. This current run of Kander and Ebb’s masterpiece sees Sarah Soetaert and Vivian Carter play the murderesses Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly awaiting trial for cold-blooded, first degree murder. The set is as glamorous as ever, […]

  • Monsters: a low-budget, high-class alien invasion movie

    Gareth Edwards’ debut feature plays like a road movie that just happens to feature aliens…

  • Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip @ Southampton Uni

    Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip put on a great performance at the Uni that left everyone craving more.

  • Skyline: A Little Tiring…?

    The aliens have landed!

  • ‘The Pillowman’ Reviewed: Blood, Terror and Suspense.

    A review on the recent Halloween showing of ‘The Pillowman’ at the Annex Theatre.