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Video: Last action heroes - The films of Smith, Cruise and Pitt
Friday 28 June 2013
Watch the videos below to see the latest films from Tom Cruise, Will Smith and Brad Pitt, as well as some other recent action flicks from the three.
Google is listening (and watching): First, futuristic specs. Next up it's Google Now, a voice-control service to sock it to Siri
Tuesday 30 April 2013
Simon Usborne tries out Google Now - and finds the more it knows about you, the smarter it is
Microsoft grabs a slice of app action
Thursday 25 April 2013
Gamers don’t help themselves, do they? It’s well known that we here at Trending love eating pizza as much as we enjoy playing some digital slice of entertainment, but we try not to have a combo of the two, lest we unwittingly stereotype ourselves.
DVD & Blu-ray review: Jack Reacher (15)
Friday 19 April 2013
Christopher McQuarrie DVD/Blu-ray (125mins)
Ground control to Major Tom... When did Tom Cruise last play a ‘normal’?
Thursday 18 April 2013
Gillian Orr reports on the star’s odd choice of movie roles
New spyware Riot tracks your behaviour on Twitter, Facebook and Foursquare to predict crime - is it an invasion of privacy?
Monday 11 February 2013
Remember how futuristic Minority Report seemed?
Alex Ferguson: I would have taken a draw against Manchester City
Monday 10 December 2012
Manchester United manager was ready to settle after seeing two goal lead evaporate
Television choices: Book in for a rich experience at celeb-rated London hotel
Saturday 01 December 2012
TV pick of the week
Tom Cruise brings London to a standstill
Monday 26 November 2012
As if people didn't already find Tom Cruise annoying, many were left frustrated on Sunday when Trafalgar Square and surrounding streets were shut down for filming.
Films of the week: A brief encounter with love in the finer details
Saturday 10 November 2012
Thursday
DVD: Rock of Ages
Sunday 14 October 2012
You don't expect much from a musical built on a foundation of 1980s glam-metal anthems, but you do expect it to be fun.
Scott autopsy result could take six weeks
Tuesday 21 August 2012
The results from an autopsy on Top Gun film-maker Tony Scott may not be known for six weeks, according to the Los Angeles Department of Coroner.
Tony Scott: A man of action films, pure and simple
Monday 20 August 2012
No one ever mistook Tony Scott for a great dramatist. He was a director critics loved to hate for his slick barrage of images at the expense of story. The filmmaker did not dazzle the imagination with visions of lost or alien worlds, like brother Ridley Scott.
London 2012: Cameron urges people to return to capital amid 'ghost town' claims
Friday 03 August 2012
Prime Minister David Cameron is calling on people to come back into London after criticisms that the capital has become a 'ghost town' due to commuters and non-Games tourists avoiding the centre.
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- 2 Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
- 3 US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
- 4 Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
- 5 Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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