In his latest podcast/interview, host Stuart Wright talk to director Dominic Wade about his cycling documentary Steel is Real… But Carbon is Quicker; which screens on Saturday 23rd November at Cube Cinema, Bristol (see cubecinema.com for details)
Thirty years ago the idea of a Briton winning the Tour De France would have been unthinkable. But now the UK is a cycling tour de force, with sporting giants like Chris Froome, Laura Trott and Mark Cavendish winning golds and topping podiums across the globe.None of this success happened overnight. For decades the British cycling scene was one typified by hard graft and little reward. You did it for the love of the sport.
Steel Is Real But Carbon Is Quicker looks at the grass-roots from which the vibrant and fast-growing British cycling scene has sprung. It celebrates the heroes who took to the road and proved that it was paved with British grit.
Thirty years ago the idea of a Briton winning the Tour De France would have been unthinkable. But now the UK is a cycling tour de force, with sporting giants like Chris Froome, Laura Trott and Mark Cavendish winning golds and topping podiums across the globe.None of this success happened overnight. For decades the British cycling scene was one typified by hard graft and little reward. You did it for the love of the sport.
Steel Is Real But Carbon Is Quicker looks at the grass-roots from which the vibrant and fast-growing British cycling scene has sprung. It celebrates the heroes who took to the road and proved that it was paved with British grit.
- 10/21/2019
- by Stuart Wright
- Nerdly
As the Summer Olympics draw to a close, one fan is feeling a particular kind of pride. Princess Kate has been keeping close watch as alumni of a charity she backs, SportsAid, rack up medals at the Rio Games. (17 golds, 14 silvers and eight bronze, to be exact.) SportsAid, which marks its 40th anniversary this year - an event that Kate marked with a celebration dinner at her Kensington Palace home in June - helps up-and-coming athletes with financial and other support as they bid to become heroes of the future. Laura Trott, who won two gold medals in cycling alongside her fiancé Jason Kenny,...
- 8/19/2016
- by Simon Perry, @SPerryPeoplemag
- PEOPLE.com
Just call them the King and Queen of cycling. Team Great Britain's Laura Trott, 24, and Jason Kenny, 28 - whose kiss on Tuesday after a triumphant evening lit up Rio's velodrome - have nabbed a combined five gold medals in the 2016 Games (two for her and three for him). "I'm just so happy that it all came together," Trott - who along with fiancé Kenny earned a combined five medals at previous Games as well - said amid tears of joy. "I can't thank everyone at home enough." Among the fans and family watching thousands of miles away: Princess Kate, who...
- 8/17/2016
- by Simon Perry, @SPerryPeoplemag
- PEOPLE.com
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(David Ayer, 2012, Us) Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Peña, Anna Kendrick. 109 mins.
If there was anything left to do with buddy cop movies then this does it, adding a raw authenticity and almost Tarantino-esque banter to the proceedings. We're on patrol with an Lapd duo whose partnership verges on the homoerotic, and whose sense of duty knows no bounds – a big mistake when they come up against a Mexican cartel. It's exciting, fluent and heavy on the shaky-cam, but ultimately paints a simplistic world of heroic lawmen and caricatured bad guys.
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(David O Russell, 2012, Us) Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro. 122 mins.
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End of Watch (15)
(David Ayer, 2012, Us) Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Peña, Anna Kendrick. 109 mins.
If there was anything left to do with buddy cop movies then this does it, adding a raw authenticity and almost Tarantino-esque banter to the proceedings. We're on patrol with an Lapd duo whose partnership verges on the homoerotic, and whose sense of duty knows no bounds – a big mistake when they come up against a Mexican cartel. It's exciting, fluent and heavy on the shaky-cam, but ultimately paints a simplistic world of heroic lawmen and caricatured bad guys.
Silver Linings Playbook (15)
(David O Russell, 2012, Us) Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro. 122 mins.
Against-type casting and unbalanced characters do much to disguise the conventional bones of this satisfying romantic drama.
- 11/24/2012
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Better on details than when it's trying to uplift us with sport/pop montages, this film of London's Olympic summer crams it all in
The official film of the 2012 London Olympics is a mixed bag, inevitably compromised by the task of having to condense two weeks of extraordinary activity into under two hours. If Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia was so 1936, First is very 2012, reducing specific events to filler within extended montages that seek to describe – usually in slow-motion, to the accompaniment of pseudo-inspirational pop – the next steps in what Cowell-speak dictates we call the "journeys" of its highlighted competitors. Director Caroline Rowland fares best whenever she forsakes vague uplift for detail: the look on swimmer Chad le Clos's face as he realises he has beaten his hero Michael Phelps, the awestruck Laura Trott's unlikely omnium victory. Such moments seem to crystallise whole days of spectacle and achievement, and offer a stirring reminder,...
The official film of the 2012 London Olympics is a mixed bag, inevitably compromised by the task of having to condense two weeks of extraordinary activity into under two hours. If Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia was so 1936, First is very 2012, reducing specific events to filler within extended montages that seek to describe – usually in slow-motion, to the accompaniment of pseudo-inspirational pop – the next steps in what Cowell-speak dictates we call the "journeys" of its highlighted competitors. Director Caroline Rowland fares best whenever she forsakes vague uplift for detail: the look on swimmer Chad le Clos's face as he realises he has beaten his hero Michael Phelps, the awestruck Laura Trott's unlikely omnium victory. Such moments seem to crystallise whole days of spectacle and achievement, and offer a stirring reminder,...
- 11/23/2012
- by Mike McCahill
- The Guardian - Film News
Laura Trott, Nicola Adams and Jade Jones have joined the 'make mine Milk' campaign. The London 2012 Olympics gold medallists feature on buses across the UK sporting the famous milk moustache in the latest advertising push for the campaign. Trott, the reigning European, World and double Olympic cycling champion, said: "I have milk every day - I train a lot and always look forward to a homemade smoothie after a hard session on the track. "Every day starts with a bowl of cereal and a glass of milk separately on the side (so the cereal doesn't go soggy!)." Adams, the first ever Olympic women's boxing champion, said: "Before every fight, including my gold medal fight in London, I have a bowl of Frosties with low-fat milk to get my day off to the best possible start. (more)...
- 9/17/2012
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
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