It was once solely the terrain of only the most ardent comic book fanatic

TV pick of the week: Luther

Watch the videos below to view a trailer for ‘Spike Island’, starring Emilia Clarke, and also see her discussing the latest series of ‘Game of Thrones’.

Peter Jackson DVD/Blu-ray (166mins)

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 were winners at the Art Directors Guild awards on Saturday, a ceremony that celebrates production design in Hollywood.

As the saying goes, music makes the world go round

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

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.

Julian Fellowes's prettier version of Upstairs, Downstairs, above, irritates in a gazillion ways, notably with its absurd script and dunderheaded plotlines.

Last night's opening ceremony has been lauded as a spectacular, if very British, success.

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.

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.

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