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She shan't go to the ball: Emma Watson turns down role in Kenneth Branagh's Cinderella
Wednesday 13 March 2013
The slipper doesn't fit for Emma Watson who has turned down the title role in Kenneth Branagh’s new film Cinderella.
Skyfall, Anna Karenina and Life of Pi win at the Art Directors Guild awards
Monday 04 February 2013
Skyfall, Anna Karenina, and Life of Pi were winners at the Art Directors Guild awards on Saturday, a ceremony that celebrates production design in Hollywood.
Quiz of the Year 2012 part 6: Music
Friday 21 December 2012
As the saying goes, music makes the world go round
First Night: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Peter Jackson
Monday 10 December 2012
For all the sound and fury, not a great deal actually happens in this initial episode but audiences are bound to eat it up and come back for more
A long slow journey to an abrupt ending
Monday 10 December 2012
There is a sense of sledgehammers being used to crack nuts in the first part of Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy. J R R Tolkien's short 1937 novel has been turned into an enormous Wagnerian epic.
DVD & Blu Ray: Downton Abbey: Series 3 (12)
Saturday 24 November 2012
Julian Fellowes's prettier version of Upstairs, Downstairs, above, irritates in a gazillion ways, notably with its absurd script and dunderheaded plotlines.
London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony in pictures
Saturday 28 July 2012
Last night's opening ceremony has been lauded as a spectacular, if very British, success.
The real east London: an Olympic view from Hackney
Friday 27 July 2012
Long before they even began, the London 2012 Games became - in the minds of many - deeply immersed in and reliant on corporate sponsorship. And there were many in Hackney's Haggerston Park, in east London, where thousands of locals not able to get their hands on tickets came to watch last night's Ceremony, who felt that the non-ticketed, non-sponsored party was more akin to the ideals of the original Olympics than the shindig going on just up the road in Stratford.
Comic-Con wraps after four days of pop-art indulgence
Monday 16 July 2012
This year's 43rd annual Comic-Con festival may be over but die-hard fans of the pop-culture celebration already have their minds on next year's show.
What To Do, See & Buy: Searching for Sugar Man; The Best of R Crumb; Peyton & Byrne's café; Global Feast
Saturday 14 July 2012
Out of Africa
'Green Mile' actor Michael Clarke Duncan hospitalised
Friday 13 July 2012
"The Green Mile" actor Michael Clarke Duncan has been hospitalised in Los Angeles, a spokeswoman for his reality TV star girlfriend said on Friday.
'Black Swan' lesbian sex scene led to most viewer complaints
Thursday 12 July 2012
A lesbian sex scene helped make ballet thriller Black Swan the most complained-about film last year.
DVD/Blu-ray: 21 Jump Street (15)
Saturday 07 July 2012
Two mismatched rookie cops – Jonah Hill's geek, Jenko, and Channing Tatum's handsome meathead, Schmidt – are assigned to go undercover at a high school to infiltrate a drugs ring.
Anorexic must be force-fed to save life
Saturday 16 June 2012
A High Court judge has ruled that it is in the best interests of a woman who suffers from "extremely severe" anorexia to be fed against her wishes.
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