Bridget

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeBridget Jones is set to return to the big screen with filming beginning this spring.The fourth instalment will begin filming in May, 23 years after the release of the first movie in the rom-com series.Double Oscar-winning Renee Zellweger will return in the lead role based on the best-selling series by Helen Fielding.Colin Firth and Hugh Grant, who played love rivals Mark Darcy and…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeFans of Bridget Jones have cause to celebrate after it was confirmed a fourth instalment of the beloved franchise is set to begin filming in May.The cultural phenomenon that was Bridget Jones’s Diary led to unprecedented box office success and an Oscar nomination for its leading actor Renée Zellweger, who played the perpetually single lead. Based on the 1996 book, Bridget Jones’s Diary…

There’s far more pleasure than there should be in these stories, given their frequently appalling subject matter. It’s a selection of the work of Bridget O’Connor, who published two collections of short fiction in the 1990s and won a posthumous Bafta for her adaptation of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy shortly after her death in 2010 at the age of 49.O’Connor is exceptionally good at making us laugh at things we shouldn’t be laughing at. In Remission, “twig in a wig” Lucy develops “a career in cancer” after finding her…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeBefore she retired in 2002, the actor Bridget Fonda had perfected the art of inscrutable decision-making. She picked projects as if she were in a pinball machine: A romcom here. A psycho-thriller there. “Do you want to star in a colonic irrigation comedy with Sir Anthony Hopkins?” she was (more or less) asked in the early Nineties. She’d say yes, then find herself on the set of a…

1 DecemberThe Corrections by Jonathan FranzenAll Enid Lambert wants is everyone home for one last Christmas. Her husband, Alfred, is rapidly deteriorating with Parkinson’s. And so her three adult children – banker Gary, wannabe writer Chip and celebrity chef Denise – dutifully make their way from Philadelphia, Lithuania and New York up the snow-lined path of their parents’ house in St Jude. They manage breakfast together on the day itself. “This is the best Christmas present I’ve ever had,” poor Enid exclaims. A sabotaged…

Hey Yo, (yo) Guilty Gear Strive superstar Bridget is the latest beloved gaming character to join Good Smile Co’s “Pop Up Parade” range of affordable figurines. The yo-yo swinging scrapper is available to pre-order now at Good Smile Co. and other anime-lovin’ toy stores. Produced by legendary merch-makers Max Factory, Pop Up Parade Bridget stands a little under seven inches in height and is rocking her modernized Guilty Gear Strive look — standing in a cute ‘n’ coy pose with her “Tricky Spinner” in hand. Like her…

Do you still think you would be working in a bookshop or as a painter if you hadn’t made it as an actor? EtienneJI think I’ve got too much energy to work in a bookshop. But I’ve never worked in one. Maybe it is really energetic. I loved painting up to my early 20s, but completely dropped it. When I’m old, or no one wants to give me an acting job, I’m going to pick it up again, because it’s something I still love.Your grandad was a British spy in the German army who changed his name from Stellmacher. Can I set you up with…

Hey Yo (Yo) Damn, it looks like the era of BRIDGET is set to continue — Not only has the Guilty Gear star made her GG Strive debut, appeared in some fun fan projects, AND received her own, real-life Bullet Yo-Yo, but merch maker Spiritale has now revealed a prototype wicked-looking figurine, currently in production. The prototype captures Brisket in all of her glory, posed exactly as she is in her Guilty Gear Strive splash art. Rocking her big ol’ shoes — Bullet Yo-Yo in one hand and haunted companion Roger in the…

Could you be the next Original Starla? The Guilty Gear franchise is renowned for its bizarre arsenal of stylish weaponry, from Faust’s 10-foot scalpel to Ino’s satanic shredder, but perhaps one of the most ingenious tools belongs to the delightful young bounty hunter Bridget, in the form of her trick-shot-tastic Bullet Yo-Yo. And, if you fancy taking an eye or two out yourself, then hobby crafter SpinGear has you covered, as the Japanese yo-yo specialist is now taking pre-orders on an exceptionally cool-looking replica…

Well, that escalated… Do you know who has tons of fans? Me? Well, you’re very kind but no, I’m kinda lonely… Erm… Anyway, the answer I was looking for was Guilty Gear yo-yo spinner, Bridget, as demonstrated by the huge amount of fan art, cosplay, and other prjects dedicated to the young lassie online. Case in point: This wonderful fan animation, produced by the super-talented artist/animator Liz Caingcoy. The 45-second short sees our gal making the most of a bright and sunny afternoon, taking to the streets with…