Poor old Priya has been playing at happy families with David and Amba forgetting that David is married to Alicia. It takes Val to point it out to her and make her do something about it. Priya asks her father, Rishi, to sort an arranged marriage for her and when attractive businessman Rakesh Kotecha arrives in Emmerdale she feels she may have met her match.
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Pasha Bocarie will play Rakesh and when he arrives on our screens in mid July he gets Jai’s (Chris Bisson) back upas they are old business rivals and not someone Jai wants as his potential brother in law. Looks like Priya’s dreams for a wedding soon turn cold, especially when David (Matthew Wolfenden) discovers Rakesh may not be all he seems.
A brand new trailer has been released for the eagerly-awaited animated movie The Boxtrolls.
Featuring the voices of Isaac Hempstead-Wright, Elle Fanning, Ben Kingsley, Simon Pegg, Richard Ayoade, Nick Frost, Jared Harris and Tracy Morgan, The Boxtrolls will be released by Universal Pictures UK.
The Boxtrolls is a comedic fable that unfolds in Cheesebridge, a posh Victorian-era town obsessed with wealth, class and the stinkiest of fine cheeses. Beneath its charming cobblestone streets dwell the Boxtrolls, foul monsters who crawl out of the sewers at night and steal what the townspeople hold most dear: their children and their cheeses. At least that’s the legend residents have always believed. In truth, the Boxtrolls are an underground cavern-dwelling community of quirky and lovable oddballs who wear recycled cardboard boxes the way turtles wear their shells. The Boxtrolls have raised an orphaned human boy, Eggs (voiced by Isaac Hempstead-Wright), since infancy as one of their dumpster-diving and mechanical junk-collecting own. When the Boxtrolls are targeted by a villainous pest exterminator Archibald Snatcher (Acadamy Award winner Ben Kingsley) who is bent on eradicating them as his ticket to Cheesebridge society, the kind-hearted band of tinkerers must turn to their adopted charge and an adventurous rich girl Winnie (Elle Fanning) to bridge two worlds amidst the winds of change – and cheese.
The Boxtrolls is released on 12th September 2014. Check out the trailer for the movie below:
Kevin Drew is no stranger to the stage as a former member Broken Social Scene. He’s now released his second solo album titled Darlings via City Slang. This week Drew has revealed his brand new video to single You In Your Were alongside his tour dates.
You can watch the video to You In Your Were below:
You can catch Kevin Drew live on the following dates:
une 7: Field Trip Arts & Music Festival / Toronto, ON
June 8: Field Trip Arts & Music Festival w/ Broken Social Scene / Toronto, ON
June 10: The Music Of Daniel Lanois at Massey Hall / Toronto, ON
June 28: The Club Theatre Complex / Banff Centre
July 22: Mac Hall / Calgary AB*
July 24: Shaw Conference Center / Edmonton, AB*
July 25: Conexus Art Center / Regina SK*
July 26: O’Brian’s Event Center / Saskatoon SK*
July 27: Burton Cummings Theater / Winnipeg, MT*
July 31: London Music Hall / London, ON*
Aug 2: Osheaga Festival / Montreal, QC
Aug 9: Squamish Festival / Squamish, BC
Aug 12: Bitterzoet / Amsterdam, Netherlands
Aug 13: Postbahnhof / Berlin, Germany
Aug 15: Festival Im Fluss / Basel, Switzerland
Aug 16: Frequency Festival / St. Polten, Austria
Aug 18: XOYO / London, UK
Aug 18/23: Arboretum Festival / Ottawa, ON * with Modest Mouse
Family sci-fi adventure Earth To Echo hits cinemas next month and a load of new content has just been released for the movie.
Alongside two posters there are a selection of stills and the official trailer for the movie. Earth To Echo stars Astro, Teo Haim, Reese Hartwig and Ella Wahlestedt. It is directed by Dave Green with a screenplay by Henry Gayden based on a story he wrote with Andrew Panay.
The synopsis for the movie is:
Best friends Tuck, Munch and Alex are spending their last few days together before their houses are demolished by a highway construction project and they are forced to move away from each other. However, events take an exciting and unexpected turn when they start receiving cryptic signals on their mobile phones with maps directing them to a secret location. The inseparable trio are convinced that this could be the beginning of an amazing adventure and set out to crack the code and discover the meaning of the messages. This leads them to encounter Echo, a mysterious alien from another planet who desperately needs their help in order to return home. An epic story beyond the wildest of imaginations, the race is on for the friends to save Echo as they embark on a journey that will change all of their lives forever.
Echo To Earth is due for release on 25th July 2014. Check out all of the stills, posters and the trailer for the movie below:
Former The Voice UK contestant Leah McFall has debuted her new single Home.
Premiering on Radio 1Xtra’s CJ Beatz show, the track is the first official single from McFall since her appearance on the talent show. Home is produced by will.i.am who was McFall’s mentor on the show, and features a rap from him too. McFall’s impressive vocal range takes centrestage on the song reminding you why you loved her in the first place.
The music video for Home is expected to make its debut soon and McFall’s album is due for release later in the year. Home will be released on 27th July via Capitol Records.
Take a listen to Home using the SoundCloud player below:
Reading is only 10 weeks away folks!! So many of you have bought tickets knowing this is the rock event of the summer. Today the festival organisers have revealed that Saturday Day tickets for Reading have now sold out.
Early Entry tickets also have sold out however if you still wish to attend the festival this year you can still do so by getting tickets for Friday and Sunday.
As for the lucky people who secured tickets for Saturday 23rd August, Reading festival has plenty on offer. Headlining on the 23rd will be Arctic Monkeys who will share performances across the festival with Jake Bugg, Bombay Bicycle Club, Pendulum (DJ set) and Nero live, who will be closing the NME / BBC Radio 1 Stage. The day also sees Of Mice & Men take to the stage in the newly-named The Pit for their debut performance at the Festival, with Band of Skulls, Pusha T, the MOBO award-winning Krept & Konan amongst many more.
Reading & Leeds festival take place between the 22nd and 24th August.
Eelke Klein is giving away a brand new remix to celebrate his birthday and fantastic year. Following the success of Zsa Zsa, which was produced for the UK duo Blamma! Blamma!, Klein is now back with a fresh rework of the track. Be ready for a summer banger.
The track has been completely revamped with new energy and urgency. This time round the tempo’s been jacked up and, coupled with the swirling bottom end, makes for an unstoppable dancefloor cut. Aptly dubbed the Filter Mix.
Eelke Klein has also revealed he will be back soon with brand new material including the release of 51 Degrees Nord on Suara Records, which is out on 23rd June. You’ll also have the chance to catch Klein on his North American, South American and European tour.
Space Daze is the new venture of the lead guitarist and songwriter of Seattle’s band Seapony, Danny Rowland. Last March Rowland challenged himself to writing a new song every day for an entire month. His adventure only lasted twelve days and that was long enough to produce his album Follow My Light Back Home. This short and sweet collection of tracks is bright and upbeat and everything Space Daze should be. The album, Follow My Light Back Home was released on a limited cassette edition via London DIY label Beautiful Strange.
Danny Rowland was born in rural Oklahoma and has been experimenting with music since he was a kid.
You can watch the video to Line Up On The Solstice here:
New album Follow My Light Back Home track list below:
1. Woke Up in the Summer 2. The Voices of Strangers 3. Line Up on the Solstice 4. It’s Getting Lighter Earlier 5. It Becomes Silent 6. Going Out 7. I’ll Know Tomorrow 8. Having a Bad Time 9. Follow My Light Back Home 10. Kill Me 11. Close The Curtains 12. The Fireflies are Gone
The rules could not be any more straightforward: tap Up, Down, Left, Right in time to a simple beat. But these instructions deliver a surprisingly complicated action puzzler which has been described by Guardian writer Steven Poole as “a rhythm-action Stroop Test.”
A Stroop Test is often used in clinical investigation to measure selective attention, cognitive flexibility and processing speed by asking participants to read out colours written in different inks. Up, Down, Left, Right introduces the concept of routine which is then mixed on the fly to create a fast-paced, absorbing high-score game.
Up, Down, Left, Right challenges players to maintain a simple beat – roughly one every half second – tapping in the sequence Up, Down, Left, Right on a simple keyboard. As play progresses, blocks fall from the top of the screen at a steady pace. These blocks will change the sequence by replacing one key with another – keeping three as normal. Failure to conform to the beat immediately resets the score.
Up, Down, Left Right is games industry veteran and One Life Left co-presenter Simon Byron’s first videogame.
[quote by=”Simon Byron, developer, Up, Down, Left, Right”]I adored how Papers, Please played with the concept of routine, slightly tweaking your instructions day by day, and I loved Super Hexagon for making low scores fashionable. So in a sense, Up, Down, Left, Right is the bastard child of both, disrupting a rote task – but doing so very quickly. Once players get the mechanic – which is pretty tricky to describe, but is worth persevering with – I’ve found that nothing becomes more important than proving your place on the Leaderboard. I’m genuinely excited about opening the contest up to all Android owners.[/quote]
Up, Down, Left, Right is available now on Google Play for free. An iOS version will also be available soon.
Just when we thought the new season of 24 couldn’t get any more intense it’s proven us wrong!
If you haven’t seen the latest episode of 24: Live Another Day we suggest you stop reading now. If you have keep reading to relive all of the action from the episode.
Last week’s episode left the life of Simone Al-Harazi (Emily Berrington) hanging in the balance after she chased her niece across London and ended up lifeless on the road after a run-in with a bus. We also had the shock reveal that Navarro (Benjamin Bratt) had framed Kate’s (Yvonne Stahovski) husband and was worried about Jordan (Giles Matthey) being on his trail.
Tonight’s episode picked up with the aftermath of Simone’s accident and she survived! As she was carted off to hospital, her niece told police that she’d killed her mother. At that stage though no one really knew who Simone was so Margot (Michelle Fairley) was safe for now.
Jack (Kiefer Sutherland) and Kate were tying up loose ends following the shoot-out with Rask and Chloe (Mary Lynn Rajskub) informed them that the number she found on Rask’s bank account was linked to Simone. She also revealed that Simone had been hit by a bus and told Jack that she’s been taken to St Edwards Hospital. A message then popped up on Chloe’s screen telling her to leave her location and as she looked out of the window she saw the police had found Open Cell’s base.
Jack and Kate rushed over to the hospital and made contact with President Heller (William Devane) who assured them he would get Simone put under guard to prevent anyone getting to her before they did. Heller granted Jack full authority to do whatever he needed to and was surprised when Jack revealed that Prime Minister Davies (Stephen Fry) had scuppered the operation by sending MI5 in. This led to an explosive confrontation between Heller and Davies about the incident. The Prime Minister also tackled the issue of Heller’s illness which resulted in an abrupt exchange that saw the two men agree to work together. Moments before Heller received the location and contact details from Margot to give himself up.
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On her way to the hospital, Simone remained unconscious but a paramedic answered her ringing mobile phone. Of course it was Margot on the other end meaning that she had finally caught wind that her daughter could compromise her planned attacks. In true motherly fashion Margot arranged for one of her contacts in the area to ‘do what has to be done’. Would she really kill her own daughter?
At the hospital Jack and Kate arrived and decided that divide and conquer was the solution. Kate went to find Simone’s niece and learned of the family relationship and the fact that Simone had tried to help them before she stabbed her mother. As Kate was playing investigator Jack waited impatiently for Simone to regain consciousness so he could question her and Margot’s hit-man stole himself a hospital uniform to get closer to her.
Kate informed Jack of Simone’s relationship to the little girl found at the scene and headed back to him. Over-hearing everything Margot’s hit-man informed her that Simone’s identity was now known and that her niece was still alive. Margot then instructed her son to get everyone to pack up and leave the location but first she wanted to fire another drone right at the hospital to finish Simone off.
As Simone regained consciousness Jack indulged in a bit of torture to try and get her to speak. It back-fired and the pain made Simone pass out meaning Jack and Kate learned nothing new. As he expressed his regret for his actions, Jack noticed Margot’s hitman and a chase ensued. Before he got chance to question the man, British police shot him dead. Jack did find a phone on the dead man and discovered that Margot was planning to attack the hospital. He instructed everyone to spread the word and evacuate the hospital.
Jack carried Simone out of the hospital and told her that Margot was sending a drone to attack the hospital whilst Kate searched for Simone’s niece Yasmin to ensure her safety. Just as they got safe distance away from the hospital the first missile was launched causing devastation at the hospital. What followed next was a thrilling car chase around London as Margot and her son fired missiles to try and kill Simone (and Jack and Kate too!). Jack’s too smart for that though and used a car-change tactic to fool Margot and escape.
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Once clear of danger, Jack received a request to go to see Heller and instructed Kate to take Simone to the CIA base so she could be treated at the infirmary.
Elsewhere in tonight’s episode Jordan had the realisation that Navarro may be up to something after he was sent to receive a package from a houseboat on the canal. Upon arriving he was shot and fell into the water but managed to find safety as he took in what had happened and considered his next move. As for Navarro it was revealed that the person he’d been colluding with to frame Kate’s husband was none other than Adrian Cross (Michael Wincott).
President Heller asked Mark (Tate Donovan) and Audrey (Kim Raver) to arrange a transition with the Vice President as soon as they returned to the US. Now his secret is out it’s only a matter of time before everyone knows and Heller wants to go out with his pride intact. Mark also had some more shady dealings with the Russians who told him they knew he’d forged Heller’s signature on the order to hand Jack over to them. They used that information to bribe Mark to agree to handing Jack over otherwise they would reveal that he’d committed treason.
As the episode drew to a close Heller contacted Margot and asked for her assurance that if he hands himself over she’ll stop the attacks. She gave him her word and he uttered ‘my decision has already been made’. Is he really going to hand himself over?
24: Live Another Day continues Monday at 9/8c on FOX in the US and Wednesday at 9pm on Sky Atlantic HD in the UK.
