Adam Deacon was referring to himself as the “underdog” before the BAFTA Awards ceremony - a competition he was even calling "a class war". But by the end of the night, he was grinning like a Cheshire cat after picking up the Award for Orange Wednesdays Rising Star (voted for by the public). The 28-year-old has appeared in Noel Clarke projects Kidulthood and Adulthood as well as TV roles in The Bill, Casualt ...

In an interveiw with Choice FM's Max this week,  MC Harvey states that he didn't say he had been out the with Girl's Aloud singer Cheryl Cole. It seems Now magazine have fabricated the story that led to Harvey and Cheryl having beef on Twitter last week.     ...

It's not too late to cast your vote for Kidulthood, Adulthood and Anuvahood actor Adam Deacon. Hackney born Deacon made the shortlist for the BAFTA's Orange Rising Star Award.  He faces competition from actors including Eddie Redmayne and Tom Hiddlestone, who are as different from Adam as chalk and cheese in terms of background. Many stars have come out in support of Adam (watch the video) but as Adam menti ...

Drake has told reporters that he reckons he’d make a brilliant Obama. Having started out as an actor in Canadian high school drama ‘Degrassi: the Next Generation’, it seems that Drake wants to get his thespian on again, but only for a very special somebody. "I hope somebody makes a movie about Obama's life soon because I could play him,"Drake told VH1 news at the Sundance Film Festival. "That's the goal. I ...

The Tuskegee Airmen, an all Black fighter unit formed in 1941,  prepared and trained to become pursuit pilots in a war that many of the Army brass never intended for them to fight in. The George Lucas film, Red Tails stars Cuba Gooding Jr and paints the story of how the Tuskegee commanding officers and pilots overcame the Army’s enshrined policies of racism and separation of the races to earn the right to f ...

[caption id="attachment_3759" align="alignleft" width="125" caption="Kweku Mandela"][/caption] A six part miniseries based on the life of Nelson Mandela is in the works from South Africa’s Out of Africa Entertainment, the UKs Left Bank Pictures and Canada’s Blue Ice Films. Producers on the series include Out of Africa principal Kweku Mandela, a grandson of the renowned African leader. Scribe Nigel Williams, ...

American Retail giant Lowe’s has raised a storm of national controversy, with many calling for a boycott of the store, after it made the decision to pull advertising from All-American Muslims, a reality show that looks into the lives of six Muslim families that live in a predominantly Muslim suburb of Michigan. Lowe’s decided to end its advertising on the program -- which is broadcast on TLC, a subsidiary o ...

Zoe Kravitz (X-Men: First Class) and Sophie Okonedo (Hotel Rwanda) are reportedly both in talks to join Will Smith and Jaden Smith in 1000 A.E., the scifi action/adventure movie that M. Night Shyamalan is attached to direct. The story is about a father and son (Will and Jaden of course) crash landing on Earth, 1,000 years after humans abandoned it. The son, considered a failure as a warrior, is put in a pos ...

'Footballer Ashley Cole is taking his eye off the ball... so he can star in a movie. After seeing that his ex-wife Cheryl scored a role alongside J-Lo and Cameron Diaz in Hollywood, it looks like Ashley''s trying to get in on this acting thing. Director Noel Clarke has asked him to cameo in a new documentary-drama called Played, which will star Danny Dyer as a football agent. A source explained the plot and ...

This is the first episode of a new African children''s cartoon called Bino & Fino. 2010 saw the 50th year independence anniversaries of many African nations and this episode deals with the concept of colonialism and independence amongst African countries.  It's made for children between the ages of 3-5. The upcoming miniseries will be fun and educational. You can buy the series on DVD at www.binoandfino ...