Category archives: Entertainment

Golden Joystick Awards 2016: Prize Winners An...

21. November 2016
Entertainment, Games
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This year’s Award-season has started. On Friday night, the 34th Golden Joystick Awards have been delivered and it has open, like last year, the season of the Game-Awards. The awarding took place in indig02 in London and has been hosted by the comedian James Veitch. Instead of leaving the decision...

1979 Revolution: Black Friday

27. April 2016
Entertainment
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That videogames in general do not soley rely on gunfire, swordsplay and loud noises, but on an engaging narrative as well, has been clear since gaming milestones like Bioshock and Dear Esther. But that they can portray a thrilling historical drama can be seen by playing Navid Khonsari’s new game...

W.U.R.M.: Escape from a dying Star

25. April 2016
Entertainment
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This year's Berlin Games Week A Maze Indie Game Award is filled with promising and fun to play titles, some of which we want to present to you. Today: W.U.R.M.: Escape from a dying Star. Imagine a future in which we have mastered the energy crisis, the pollution of our atmosphere,...

Pedophilia in Hollywood

21. April 2016
Entertainment
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[caption id="attachment_134261" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Werbeposter von An Open Secret[/caption] When the movie drama "Spotlight" by director Tom McCartney was shown at the theaters last year, the audience and critics agreed on one thing. This movie is worthy of an Oscar. In fact, it was awarded the Oscar for Best Movie. The...

Dr. Langeskov - The 15 Minutes Heist

21. April 2016
Entertainment
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This year's Berlin Games Week A Maze Indie Game Award is filled with promising and fun to play titles, some of which we want to present to you. Today: Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist. We all know the difficulty of finding the time to...

International Games Week in Berlin

20. April 2016
Entertainment
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Next to giants like the annually occurring GamesCom in Cologne, one tends to forget the other great gaming venues Germany has to offer. One of these is the Berlin International Games Week, which offers lots of different kinds of events about Gaming in general. From presenting yet unknown Indie Games...

The Worst Movies of 2015

19. April 2016
Entertainment
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While movies like The Revenant featuring Leonardo DiCaprio got on the gravy train at the Oscar’s, there are also other movies that jigsaw murderer should definitely add to his collection of instruments of torture. 2015 was also a year full of scary and terrible moments for movie enthusiasts. Here are...

3 Celebrities who are surprisingly nice peeps

18. April 2016
Entertainment
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[caption id="attachment_134232" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Lady Gaga[/caption] While Michael Jordan, Michael Bay, Tommy Lee Jones, Kanye West and Ariana Grande don’t really make positive headlines about their modest behavior towards their fans and colleagues, there are still a few celebrities who are indeed very friendly despite many expectations. Here are three of such...

Day of the Tentacle - Remastered!

16. April 2016
Entertainment
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23 years ago there went a ripple through the very fabric of time and space, as a new titan emerged in the heavens. And the gods wept, because there were no more worlds to conquer. I'm speaking of course of Day of the Tentacle, one of the best PC-games of all...

The best practial effects in movies

15. April 2016
Entertainment
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CGI is considered the downfall of special effects by many. Here at readthetrieb.com we tend to agree. In order to celebrate the craft of old-fashioned special effects we made a Top 3 for you involving the very best the world of practical effects has to offer. Enjoy! 1. Starship Troopers Starship Troopers...

Kanye West - Devil or Darling?

14. April 2016
Entertainment
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[caption id="attachment_134028" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Kanye mit Kim, Will Smith und Jada Pinkett Smith[/caption] He stormed the stage during the 2009 MTV Music Awards when Taylor Swift received the award for Best Female Video, and told her straight in the face that the award really should have gone to Beyoncé. Everyone was...

3 of the best inventions of 2015

13. April 2016
Entertainment
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  "There’s nothing you can invent.  Everything already exists." This is probably the general opinion on inventions. However, not everyone is a born Gyro Gearloose. Those who dare to implement revolutionary product ideas definitely need to come up with something if they want to their invention to be included in the...

New Movie Release - Warcraft: The Beginning

12. April 2016
Entertainment
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Orcs, humans, elves and dwarves - World of Warcraft is undoubtedly one of the greatest computer games nowadays. It was published by game manufacturer Blizzard. Since then, it has started its unstoppable, merciless triumph in which millions of avid gamers participated worldwide. The MMORPG is an online game which doesn’t only...

New Movie in Theaters: Disney’s The Jungle ...

11. April 2016
Entertainment
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There is hardly anyone who doesn’t know the sensational story of Mowgli, the jungle child who is separated from his parents and brought up by animals in the Indian jungle. This fantastic story comes from a collection of stories by British author Rudyard Kipling, who filled his most important work,...

(Deutsch) Die beste Filmmusik aller Zeiten

31. March 2016
Entertainment
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Egal wie genial die Geschichte ist, wie kraftvoll die Performance der Schauspieler ist oder wie beeindruckend die Effekte eines Filmes sind, der Schlüssel für eine stimmige Gesamtatmosphäre ist die musikalische Untermalung. Und manchmal ist diese so einprägsam, so gut, als dass sie den Film als ganzes zu definieren vermag. Um...

Academy Awards 2017 – Finally no more white...

25. March 2016
Entertainment
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The Oscars 2016. Criticisms rained down. For two years in succession, no colored actors were nominated despite the outstanding performance of actors like Idris Elba in the biographical movie, Straight Outta Compton (2016). Even Stephen Spielberg was convinced that this role would bring the British actor with African origins the...

Fairphone- Ethical Smartphone

24. March 2016
Entertainment
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Nowadays, it is almost impossible to climb up the corporate ladder in many businesses without the constant presence on your smartphone. Also when it comes to maintaining contacts, smartphones prove to be indispensable helpers. In light of shocking scandals which are closely linked to the production of Apple products and the...

This Week’s Movie News: Batman vs. Superman

23. March 2016
Entertainment
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Comic book movies had long been considered incarnations of bad taste. Do you remember George Clooney as Batman? Well, George Clooney probably doesn’t want to remember George Clooney as Batman. Anyone who mentions this role gets his money for the movie ticket from Clooney. Also, Ben Affleck as Daredevil and Jennifer...

The sweetest animals on Instagram

22. March 2016
Entertainment
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There is hardly anything in the world that is as amusing as a sweet animal photo on the Internet. Whether they are naughty cats, happy dogs or amusing hedgehogs, who doesn’t like animals? Seriously, only sociopaths hate animals, right? Instagram, the largest photo sharing website on the World Wide Web doesn’t...

Gary Oldman - Master of Transformation

21. March 2016
Entertainment
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There is probably hardly another Hollywood actor who is as changeable as Gary Oldman. The British actor, director and producer left school at the early age of 16. Nevertheless, he received the chance to study drama at the Rose Bruford Drama College thanks to a scholarship. "Gary Oldman? Never heard of...

The 3 hottest Boys on Instagram

18. March 2016
Entertainment
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[caption id="attachment_132710" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Broderick Hunter, Image: © Dae Howerton[/caption] Undoubtedly, the majority of cultures that have evolved over the history of mankind agree on one thing when it comes to gender roles and the definition of femininity and masculinity: women are the fairer sex. In fact, the perception of beauty...

3 Amazing Actors Who Deserve an Oscar

17. March 2016
Entertainment
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[caption id="attachment_132919" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Will Smith in The Pursuit of Happyness[/caption] In February 2016, Leonardo DiCaprio finally received the Oscar, the most coveted film prize in the world as part of the Academy Awards, for his lead role in the movie, The Revenant. Indeed, there are a few talented and remarkably...
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