The Itchy and Scratchy Show

A GROUP of German artists are set to live in a museum with their heads covered in lice.

All in the name of art, the group of seven from Berlin are setting up camp in an Israeli Museum with their heads covered in lice and will wear a shower cap to keep them enclosed.

Inspired by the theme set by the museum of ‘hosts and guests’, the artists came up with the idea after researching philosophers and consulting the Bible.

Coldplay jump on the free music bandwagon

INDIE lovelies Coldplay are offering fans their new single for free after the world exclusive play of it tomorrow on Radio 1’s Jo Wiley show.

Fans have waited almost three years for new material from the band and hopes are high for what’s to come.

After the first play on Radio 1, fans can log onto the official Coldplay website for a free download of the single Violet Hill which will be available for one week. From May 6th, the convential pay-for download will begin.

After getting a taste of what’s on offer, fans will have to wait to hear the rest of the 10-track album, Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends when it’s released on June 12th.

Films to see before you die: The Matrix

When it was released back in 1999, The Matrix managed to epitomise cool, with it’s martial arts, skin-tight outfits, on the guys and the girls, and jet black sunglasses.

The Wachowski brothers’ intelligent action film, also boasted state of the art effects, including the now infamous bullet time, copied by everything from action movies, video games to the modelling spoof Zoolander. Even today they’re still impressive.

The movie begins by introducing Mr Thomas Anderson, played by Keanu Reeves, a man already living a dual existence. During the day he acts as just another office drone, but at night he is a computer hacker, going my the name of Neo, looking for the answer to the burning question: What is the Matrix?

When he finally discovers the truth through fellow hackers Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) and Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne), Neo gets a bit more than he bargained for.

McCord gains support for Victims’ Group

THE FATHER of a UVF murder victim has gained backing for an independent victims’ group from the family of Paul Quinn.

Raymond McCord senior’s 22 year-old son Raymond junior was beaten to death in north Belfast in 1997.

Mr McCord now plans to form a victims’ group, in opposition to the newly appointed Victims’ Commissioners at Stormont.

Today the Assembly debated alleged collusion, a motion tabled by the SDLP.

Mr McCord, who branded the new government commission as a “sham”, said a new cross community victims’ group will be established this week.

Funding applications are a priority for Mr McCord, who will be supported by north Belfast priest Father Aidan Troy.

The family of murdered county Monaghan man Paul Quinn attended the Stormont debate today.

Mr Quinn’s family believe he was brutally beaten to death by IRA thugs, after he defied threats to leave the country.

Russell’s brand of rom-com quality

      

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Review

BY MICHELLE SMYTH- michelle@ragazine.co.uk

THE ARRIVAL of springtime symbolises new life, new beginnings-baby lambs being born, flowers, sunshine and one more thing-the arrival of romantic comedy season.

For avid cinema-goer’s this fact evokes either dread or delight, there is no in between-you’re either a rom-com person or you aren’t.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall ticks all the right boxes with regard to the romantic comedy genre. Attractive male and female leads, a love dilemma of some sort and plenty of easy laughs thrown in for good measure-the perfect way wile away a boring sunday evening.

However, this film proved to be more than just mindless, escapist fluff.

In a gentle mix of bitter-sweet, this comedy-perhaps due to the underlying serious theme- unexpectedly compels the audience to feel both the pain and despair of the main character Peter as well as laugh at the gags-a-plently.