It’s 1915 and World War 1 has been declared. Aged only 17, Rudyard Kipling’s son John “Jack” (Daniel Radcliffe), like most of his generation, is swept up in the enthusiasm to fight the Germans, a mood stoked vigorously by his father. Jack is cripplingly short-sighted and the Army has rejected him twice, rendering him too myopic even for an Army suffering thousands of casualties a week and desperate for recruits. Yet Rudyard is undeterred, determined that his son should go to the Front, like countless other young me, and fight for the values that he, Rudyard, espouses so publicly. Read more & comment »

Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe has revealed that he would be more than happy to take part in a sex scene for a TV show or movie, if thats what the script dictates.

Radcliffe told The Sun: “If the script says smoke, I smoke. If the script says I have sex, then I have sex - that’s just what you do as an actor.”