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Actress Keira Knightley to marry rocker
Saturday 26 May 2012
Hollywood star Keira Knightley is to marry her rock star boyfriend, James Righton from Klaxons. The couple have become engaged after dating since early last year.
Album: Beach House, Bloom (Bella Union)
Saturday 19 May 2012
Baltimore “dream-pop” duo Beach House's fourth album proceeds in exactly the same manner as its 2010 predecessor, Teen Dream, which is to say: tediously.
Diary: How sandwich celebrations were left with a bitter taste
Tuesday 15 May 2012
It saddens me to see that the 250th anniversary of the sandwich has been sullied by a repeat of an old libel against a hard-working public servant. The British Sandwich Association is to blame.
A game of Pawns? Dragon’s Dogma launch trailer released
Friday 11 May 2012
See just why Dragon’s Dogma is raising so many eyebrows amongst fans of action games and RPGs alike.
Last Night's Viewing: The Hoarder Next Door, Channel 4
Playhouse Presents: King of the Teds, Sky Arts 1
Friday 04 May 2012
"They're not freaks," said the psychotherapist Stelios Kiosses about the subjects of The Hoarder Next Door.
Revamped combat system and online multiplayer confirmed for God of War: Ascension
Tuesday 01 May 2012
New online options to offer up to eight player battles across a variety of multiplayer modes.
The Sex Myth: Why Everything We're Told is Wrong, By Dr Brooke Magnanti
Sunday 22 April 2012
Who decides what's weird... and why
Great Works: Napoleon I on his Imperial Throne, 1806 (259cm x 162 cm), Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Friday 20 April 2012
Musée de l'Armée, Paris
Dragon’s Dogma – Preview
Monday 16 April 2012
Within just a few hours of my time with Dragon’s Dogma, gigantic trolls, chimeras and hydras have all tasted the steel of my blade, the notion of 'less is more' clearly not on the agenda of Hideaki Itsuno and his team.
The Pirates in an Adventure with Scientists (U) / Wrath of the Titans (12A) (4/5, 2/5)
Friday 30 March 2012
Voices: Hugh Grant, Martin Freeman, Imelda Staunton, Brian Blessed
The Master and Margarita, Barbican, London
Sweeney Todd, Adelphi, London
Filumena, Almedia, London
Sunday 25 March 2012
Simon McBurney brings dazzling technology to his Bulgakov adaptation but little clarity. A Sondheim evergreen, meanwhile, is as fresh as ever
Nicholas Lezard: Who cares who killed Kennedy?
Tuesday 20 March 2012
These are the nut-jobs who believe Obama is a Muslim and the Jews were behind 9/11
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