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DVD & Blu-ray review: Warm Bodies (12)

Jonathan Levine DVD/Blu-ray (97mins)

The French teen zombies coming to steal your heart

The Returned is television’s latest must-see import

St Helens 12 Catalan Dragons 22 report: Shaven Catalans prove to be a cut above Saints

Morgan Escare pressed his claims for a World Cup spot as Catalan Dragons condemned St Helens to a third defeat in four games. The French team, sporting shaven heads in support of a children’s cancer charity, were too good for their hosts as they rounded off a week’s camp with an impressive third away victory of the season.

A Midsummer Night's Dream, Bristol Old Vic

There are some lovely things in it, and there's one riotous surge of profane comic energy, but a faint sense of disappointment lingers over this much-anticipated reunion of director Tom Morris and South Africa's Handspring Puppet Company, the team that conquered the world with the wondrous War Horse.

The Weekend's Viewing: The clues had the semaphored clarity of a creakier kind of crime drama

Mayday, Sun, BBC1 // Being Human, Sun, BBC3

The garden gnome

Page 3 Profile: The garden gnome

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Tom (Michael Socha), Alex (KATE BRACKEN), Hal (Damien Molony)

Being Human faces devilish finale after BBC axes it after fifth series

Supernatural drama Being Human is being axed by the BBC after it finishes its current run.

Review - The Cave: The strangeness of Ron Gilbert's latest platform game draws you in like like filings to a magnet

Don't let this platform adventure's simple mission; to get in and out the cave, fool you into thinking it'll be easy. With Monkey Island-style crazy puzzles and a Platonic allegory woven in, you'll gladly waste many days of your life playing it.

Wait for the end of the world in style with our pick of the best Armageddon-themed games

With Mayan-predicted apocalypse just round the corner it's time to get in training with gaming's finest Armageddon simulators.

Robinson Crusoe & the Caribbean Pirates,
Birmingham Hippodrome

Brian Conley goes from the I'm A Celebrity... jungle to a Caribbean island in Birmingham

Page 3 Profile: Hans Christian Andersen, writer

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Peter Pan, Bristol Old Vic, Bristol

‘I rather expected she’d be prettier’ says Wendy of Tinker Bell and I imagine much of the audience thought the same. In Sally Cookson’s production of JM Barrie’s Peter Pan, Tinkerbell is not exactly the daintiest of fairies. In fact, she’s a man.

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Comedy and booze go together, says Walsh. The trouble is stopping at just the one. So when do the hangovers stop being funny?
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Edinburgh to Hollywood: 10 comedic talents blowing up big

Hugh Montgomery profiles the faces to watch, from the sitcom star to the surrealist
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The world wakes up to golf's female big hitters

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