Ben Falk

The unique artistic vision that is Santigold burst onto the scene with her debut album in 2008. Back then the Philadelphia-born Santi White was known as Santogold, but in 2009 she changed to her current moniker. She's written for other artists including Lily Allen and Ashlee Simpson, but...

I was lucky enough to corner Michael Grant - author of the GONE series and now BZRK - for an interview. A fascinating guy and a great storyteller...Enjoy.

Your books tend to be quite dark. Was that always the tack you intended to take...

At a time when the need for innovative, thoughtful and commercially viable movies are paramount in the UK, it's always good to see an institution like First Light put their money where their mouth is. A foundation set up to develop skills in under-25s through film and media...

Danny Dyer intrigues me. Here's a guy who has almost zero respect amongst the mainstream filmmaking fraternity, yet his films always make money. Not in cinemas, but on the shelves of Tesco and Asda. One filmmaking friend told me that putting Danny in a film guarantees 60,000 DVD sales. Minimum....

There's been plenty of talk about the state of the British film industry lately - calls for more King's Speeches, more commercially viable movie product that will generate money and is worth investing in in the first place. What the bigwigs fail to understand is how frail the infrastructure of...

Popular Computer is a man. His name's not really Popular Computer, he's a Parisian called Sylvain Dalido. A celebrated remixer of bands like New Young Pony Club and Hot Chip, his new solo album LiTE is out on February 20th. Embraced by Japan who loves both his DJ...

For anyone who's read about books in the last year, you'll know Amanda Hocking is something of a publishing phenomenon. And almost all off her own back. Hocking, a 27-year-old from Minnesota, has sold more than a million e-books by self-publishing via Amazon. Writing in the young adult fantasy genre...

They tell you to write what you know. But once you hit your mid-thirties and your days are a random melee of friends' kids and feeling grumpy after that run you forced yourself to take, it becomes increasingly hard to find something to write about.

For years, I wished I...

Olivia Merilahti is Finnish. Dan Levy is French. Thankfully, they managed to find each other (when they worked together on a movie soundtrack in 2005 in case you're asking) because the result is The Dø, an indie pop duo whose new album Both Ways Open Jaws is released...

There's over 6 hours of special features on the new Blu-ray edition of Quentin Tarantino's seminal movie Pulp Fiction, but by far the most beguiling is the retrospective interview with John Travolta.

I'm a massive fan of Travolta and have even interviewed him a couple of...

There's a new British sitcom called Threesome, starting on Comedy Central on Monday 17th October with a double bill from 9:30p.m.

New Brit comedy? Eek, some of you may be saying, hardly much of a reason to tune in. Yes, it has its flaws - not least an...

In America, Olivia Munn is a star. That's not the case here yet, despite her showing in E4 comedy Perfect Couples, in which she plays control freak/self-help addict Leigh. But Brit TV fans need to get with the program, because she's not just another Hollywood genero-beauty. For a...

British folk-pop singer Emmy The Great released new single Paper Forest from her second album Virtue this week and it's very pretty indeed (though with a pointedly dark undercurrent).

Anyone who knows her work will be aware of her lyrical dexterity, so rather than bombarding her with lots...

I remember sitting in my cousin's house in Tonbridge reading his Star Wars annual. It must have been about 1984. And I remember a picture - Luke Skywalker and another bloke with a moustache and cape standing on the desert planet of Tatooine. The only problem is, I had watched...

• Thundercats are ho! Or should that be hos, judging by the body on Cheetara, who's drawn to look like a slightly feline Jessica Rabbit. Yep, the Eighties cartoon about a group of anthropomorphised cats on the distant planet of Thundera is back in new form on the...

So the reviews are in - William & Catherine: A Royal Romance is unsurprisingly a dud. To those who don't know, this is the second telemovie about the prince and his new missus. It stars Dan Amboyer (huh?) and Alice St. Clair (ditto) as the titular couple, while...

Footage has leaked online from the Disney presentation in Anaheim a couple of days ago of the new Avengers movie - and fans are liking what they are seeing, especially Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark a.k.a. Iron Man.

It's amazing to think that Downey Jr. is now...

1. Jeremy Irvine is going to be a star

The almost-unknown lead in War Horse made an appearance at the fest and chatted about his role in the Spielberg adaptation. Despite admitting "I'd never been on a horse", he revealed it took "about two months of auditioning. I...

When you wake up in the morning and you're something something something and you think you're gonna make it on time. By the time you get your books and you get yourself a look, you're at the corner just in time to see the bus fly by...

Okay, I'm being...

I like kids' movies as much as the next person, but the luxury of being a 21st century film viewer is that generally even films for children make sure they appease the adults sitting next to them in the cinema.

Which is why Horrid Henry The Movie in...