DUST off your best 1980s denim jacket and unpack your Simple Minds LPs – you’ve got to get ready for detention. Whether you’re a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess or a criminal, this August you can join the Brat Pack for a back to school night with a difference – a screening…
‘Open’ season for awards success
LAST summer’s hit Open House Festival is up for a prestigious award – but they need your help to win it. The August arts festival brightened up Bangor’s summer for the second year in a row, bringing a host of big name bands, up-and-coming cult acts and unusual one-off events to the town. And for…
Hollywood debut for Bangor’s Oscar star Riley
IT’S been a big week for Bangor’s newest star, Oscar-nominated nine year old Riley Hamilton. Over the past seven days he’s jetted off to Los Angeles to mingle with the stars and made his TV debut as his movie Boogaloo And Graham premiered on BBC1. It’s been a quite a journey for the Bangor lad,…
Michael takes Idris through his pacenotes for the Circuit of Ireland
BANGOR World Rally Championship driver Michael Orr has been putting ‘Nelson Mandela’ through his racing paces. For Michael has been helping actor Idris Elba try out a new role as a rally driver on the roads of Monaghan, before taking part in this year’s Circuit of Ireland Rally. Car enthusiast Elba, who played Nelson Mandela in the…
Strip 50 Shades hit or quit, says churchman
A LOCAL churchman has demanded that megahit movie 50 Shades of Grey be stripped from our cinemas – or managers should quit for ‘violating the laws and nature of God’. While the steamy movie’s characters Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele are certainly fans of discipline, the team at Bangor’s Omniplex cinema were no doubt surprised…
Bangor’s newest star jets off for Oscar debut
BANGOR’S BAFTA champ Riley Hamilton is due to make his red carpet debut at the biggest night of the showbiz calendar this weekend – the Oscars. The star of Northern Ireland’s BAFTA-winning movie Boogaloo And Graham, nine-year-old Riley, is jetting off to Los Angeles to mingle with the A-listers at the 87th Academy Awards this…
Holywood hunk Jamie wows Fifty Shade of Grey global audiences
HOLYWOOD hunk Jamie Dornan has smashed box office records in the global film phenomenon that is Fifty Shades of Grey. The big screen adaptation, starring our very own talented local lad, has grossed more than £13.5m since its release last week. Screaming fans scrambled to get a selfie on the red carpet with the 32…
BAFTA joy for Bangor’s budding A-lister Riley (9)
THE weekend’s BAFTA awards saw joy for the world’s acting legends – and Bangor’s own budding A-lister Riley Hamilton. Nine-year-old Riley is the star of Boogaloo And Graham, a new Northern Ireland production that picked up the Best British Short Film gong at Sunday night’s BAFTA ceremony. And the movie could be about to hit…
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