Alex Paterson

Jan 14, 2025 | brignews.com | Alex Paterson

The shortlist for the third annual Stirling Business Awards 2025 has been revealed ahead of the awards ceremony at the Albert Halls on Thursday 6 March. A total of over 26,000 votes were cast by the public across 11 categories, including Restaurant of the Year, Charity of the Year, and Outstanding Contribution to the City. The awards aim to highlight the successes of Stirling’s businesses, business owners, and teams.

Jan 9, 2025 | brignews.com | Alex Paterson

Casting Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield in a A24 cancer-tragedy romance drama will undoubtedly get audiences into the cinema, but, unfortunately, We Live In Time has little to offer beyond its great casting and some attractive arthouse shots. We Live in Time follows award-winning chef Almut (Pugh) and Weetabix HQ employee Tobias (Garfield) as the pair turn an inconvenient encounter- a car accident- into a beautifully sweet and soppy soul-entwining relationship.

Dec 2, 2024 | brignews.com | Alex Paterson

Christmas is not always the happiest time of the year. For melancholic family man Bill Furlong (Cillian Murphy), the usual financial stresses and pains from labouring coal are not the only things that trouble him this holiday season. There is a weight over his conscience, suffocating his soul and forcing him to question if ‘that just being the way of things’ is a good justification for not challenging the way things are.

Nov 28, 2024 | brignews.com | Alex Paterson

Britain’s favourite bear has returned with another nutty adventure: Paddington in Peru. Armed with marmalade, beautiful manners and his wonderous ability to cause joyous chaos, Paddington is back and delivering a fact he wishes to remind everyone of: Paddington is an immigrant. Paddington has been embroiled in political culture for the last several years.

Oct 31, 2024 | brignews.com | Alex Paterson

If Halloween horror tests your wits a bit too much, don’t fret. Alongside animated Halloween films and Supernatural, there are other non-threatening things to watch this Halloween: spoof horror.  Scary Movie is not a horror film. It’s a parody of slasher-horrors, poking fun at Scream and a long list of other classic horrors. You don’t need to watch the original scary content; the parody stands strong alone as a silly, stupid comedy.