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A Fucked Up Christmas

Canadian indie band Fucked Up are planning on releasing a cover version of Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas (Feed The World). Fucked Up won the coveted Polaris Prize in September, the Canadian version of The Mercury Prize here in the UK. Lead singer Damian Abraham told Vulture this week that they intend spending their [...]

Hereford Wife Carrying Championships

One lucky couple won their combined body weight in beer yesterday at a wife carrying contest held at Hereford Racecourse as part of the venue’s annual Beer and Cider day. The event was a 50 metre dash and contestants could choose to carry their partner either piggy-back style, a fireman’s lift or the method favoured [...]

Meatball Eating Championship

In a close run contest competitive eating legend Joey Chestnut managed to gorge his way to victory at this weekend’s Martorano’s Masters Meatball Eating Championship held in Las Vegas. Chestnut managed to stuff his face with 50 meatballs in just ten minutes, that’s 6.25lbs of meatball. The number one competitive eater in the world was closely [...]

Dahmer vs. Gacy

Every once in a while a movie comes along which is so ridiculous you just have to watch it, I’d definitely put Dahmer vs. Gacy in that category. After some bright spark came up with the idea of a Freddy vs. Jason, Aliens vs. Predator, Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus etc… some people clearly found inspiration [...]

Lost Boys 4 In The Pipeline

Work has only just begun on the third Lost Boys installment, which in itself was something of a surprise considering how piss poor Lost Boys: The Tribe was. MovieWeb recently spoke to both Corey Feldman and Corey Haim about the franchise. Feldman is confirmed for the third movie, Lost Boys: The Thirst and he told MovieWeb [...]

Man Bites Snake

An angry gardener in India took revenge on a snake which bit him by biting the snake back. 25 year old Ramesh Kumar Jamda works as a gardener in a government managed park on Orissa. Whilst doing a spot of weeding Ramesh was bitten on the hand by a serpent of some description. The furious gardener [...]

Legend of the Seeker Season Two Promo Posters

Season two of Legend of the Seeker begins this weekend in America and these smashing posters have just been released to promote the event. The posters feature images of several of the show’s main characters, and I’m sure a few people might be surprised to see Craig Parker’s fizzog up there as Darken Rahl. In the [...]

Student Mutilates Cat And Uses Organs As Fishing Bait

A law enforcement student in Ohio allegedly killed a pet cat and used it’s internal organs as bait. 18 year old Bryan Able is accused of kidnapping a domestic pet cat, killing it and then mutilating it’s corpse. The cats internal organs were then used as fishing bait and it’s remains dumped on the bonnet of [...]

Nick Cave TV Show

Nick Cave is working with filmmaker John Hillcoat to try and bring his latest novel to the small screen. Cave’s latest novel, The Death of Bunny Munro was published in September and already the Bad Seeds frontman is making plans to turn the book into a television show. “I want to do a TV series or at [...]

John Cusack Interested In Preacher Role

In a recent interview with io9 to promote apocalyptic disaster movie 2012, John Cusack revealed that he’s trying to land the part of Jesse Custer in the much anticipated Preacher adaptation. Preacher will eventually be directed by Sam Mendes, he’s been linked with the project for a number of years now and just when people start [...]

Albino Killings Continue In Tanzania

Albino killers in Tanzania are now at long last facing justice, seven men have been found guilty of butchering albinos and selling their body parts to witchdoctors and have been sentenced to death for their crimes. Following the international pressure on Tanzania to take control of the situation there was a visible crackdown on witchdoctors [...]

Mobler

This week saw the 20th anniversary of the 80s classic movie Say Anything. Say Anything was written and directed by Cameron Crowe and starred John Cusack in one of his greatest roles as the underachieving kickboxer Lloyd Dobler. The plot revolves around Dobler and his attempts to woo the girl of his dreams Diane Court, played [...]

Windscreen Viper

Two workmen on the Island of Jersey got quite a shock this week when an albino snake slithered out from under their van’s bonnet and began wriggling across the windscreen. Fortunately for Morne Aspeling and James Denton the snake wasn’t a viper at all, but just an escaped non-venomous pet milk snake. The two blokes weren’t [...]

Urine Wardens To Patrol The Streets Of Ennis

Motivated by the recent publicity created by Ennis shopkeeper John O’Connor who built his own electric fence to protect the facade of his shop being urinated on, the Ennis Town Council have begun discussing ways to combat the problem of drunken revellers pissing in the Ennis streets. Yesterday the mayor of Ennis said he would back [...]

Flashfoward Actress Gets Naked

Gabrielle Union from Flashforward, who also played a hot cheerleader alongside Eliza Dushku in Bring It On a few years back has sensationally stripped off for Men’s Health magazine in America and talked candidly about oral sex and relationships. here’s what the Hollywood hotty had to say on…. …oral sex: If it’s a choice between a man [...]

Cheryl Cole Could Appear In Doctor Who

The Geordie slapper of Girls Aloud and X Factor fame is being headhunted by the BBC who are reported to be very keen to get the pop star in the Doctor’s Tardis. Cole is currently a judge on ITV’s X Factor, the terrible reality TV show that spawns lacklustre pop acts. X Factor is however a [...]

Cannibal Corpse Will Play Bloodstock 2010

Death Metal legends Cannibal Corpse have been confirmed for next year’s Bloodstock Open Air Festival. The line up for B-O-A now boasts Andromeda, Behemoth, Cannibal Corpse, Doro, Dream Evil, Leaves Eyes, Obituary, Rage, Ross The Boss, Suffocation and Devin Townsend. The festival began back in 2005 with the intention of bringing a wider selection of real [...]

Black Magic Human Sacrifice In India

Police in India believe a two year old girl is the victim of a tantrik ritual. The badly mutilated body of the little girl was found this morning near a train station in Bharuch, Western India. The girls hands had been dislocated, there were cuts on her body and her hair had been torn out. “We have [...]

Four More Albino Killers To Hang In Tanzania

Four more men are due to be hanged in Tanzania after being found guilty of killing an albino man and cutting off his legs and head to sell to witchdoctors. These are only the second set of convictions in Tanzania for the brutal attacks which have plagued the nations albino population. In the past two [...]

World Record Meatball

A 100kg meatball has set a new world record. Just weeks after a 90kg meatball created by TV presenter Jimmy Kimmel took the title of World’s Biggest Meatball, chef Matthew Mitnitsky has come forward with his record breaking meaty offering. Mitnitsky owns Nonni’s Italian Eatery in New Hampshire, his massive meatball was officially verified by Guinness [...]