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Sperm donor ordered to pay maintenance for child after judge rules he is the father
Friday 26 July 2013
A professional man registered as a sperm donor on a website and advertised his willingness to participate in a "breeding party, ie a male-dominated orgy designed to get a woman pregnant", a High Court judge said today.
Ray Harryhausen, the visual effects master famed for skeleton battle in Jason and the Argonauts, dies aged 92
Wednesday 08 May 2013
George Lucas and Peter Jackson pay tribute to Harryhausen, with Lucas saying without his influence there would be no Star Wars
The Hobbit 3 release date pushed back to December 2014
Friday 01 March 2013
The release date of the third instalment of Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy has been pushed back from 18 July 2014 to 17 December 2014.
So Tate Modern's had 5.3m visitors, but do gallery visitor numbers really add up to all that much?
Saturday 12 January 2013
Plus: My nomination for best non-snub and the people of Les Misérables are revolting
Will Peter Jackson's speeded-up filming technique catch on in Hollywood in 2013?
Saturday 29 December 2012
Peter Jackson's film is dividing audiences with its high frame-rate. Memphis Barker wonders if we are ready for the future just yet
The Hobbit: An Unexpected box office smash with $200 million global opening weekend
Monday 17 December 2012
Despite weak reviews and a problematical production process, Peter Jackson's first Hobbit instalment looks set to be more successful than the Rings films
The Hobbit movie is no fantasy for animals
Thursday 13 December 2012
Allegations of animal cruelty on the set of The Hobbit threaten to tarnish the film's reputation. So has director Peter Jackson done enough to answer them?
Cate Blanchett, Andy Serkis and Sir Ian McKellen shiver their way through The Hobbit's London premiere
Wednesday 12 December 2012
Watch The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey premiere here
The involvement of the press in my son's case was overwhelmingly positive
Tuesday 11 December 2012
I support calls for the press to be given more access to report more openly the cases heard in the Court of Protection. In 2011, I was involved in the much reported case Neary vs Hillingdon. I originally approached the media for coverage of our case out of sheer desperation. At the time, my son, Steven, was under an unlawful deprivation of liberty authorisation and I had been unable to secure legal representation.
The Hobbit: World Premiere. Take our Lord Of The Rings quiz
Wednesday 28 November 2012
Tens of thousands of pointy-eared people turned up in Wellington, New Zealand, today to see the stars of the new movie The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.
Peta to picket The Hobbit premiere after whistleblower reveals 'preventable' deaths and 'needless suffering' of animals on set
Monday 19 November 2012
The premiere of the eagerly anticipated blockbuster The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey will also be met with angry protests from animal rights activists after a series of animals died during filming.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Briefing...Spoof airline safety video gets 2.8m hits in 24 hours
Friday 02 November 2012
Fight a hobbit for an aisle seat? Get life jacket instructions from a beautiful female elf? Only on a plane to Middle Earth - or in an Air New Zealand safety video.
One into three won't go. A Hobbit trilogy is stretching Tolkien a little too far
Thursday 26 July 2012
Is there some kind of law of modern culture that says everything must come in threes? Fifty Shades of Grey, The Dark Knight movies, The Hunger Games books, Hilary Mantel's Thomas Cromwell books, Toy Story, The Matrix… It seems that publishers and film studios would do anything to get a franchise under way, and to tell its audience, as if they were small children, that the characters they liked will be back with more adventures next year…
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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