Articles in the Arts & Entertainment Category
Guardian film writers Xan Brooks, Catherine Shoard and Andrew Pulver discuss the life and career of the ‘grand enfant terrible’ of British film. WARNING: Contains images of nudity that some viewers may find offensive
Andrew Pulver
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Sega announces Fall of the Samurai content pack set during West’s arrival, Japanese civil war.
Total War: Shogun 2, the latest in Creative Assembly’s long-running strategy franchise, launched earlier this year and moved 600,000 copies …
Martin Boyce, whose work explores the visual language of modernist architecture and design, has been nominated for this year’s Turner prize. Here, he talks about his work as ‘a peculiar landscape – a collapse of …
Rocksteady Studios’s action adventure to get new content pack December 20; new challenge map for the Batcave, plus Joker’s Carnival and The Iceberg Lounge maps included.
Last month, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment announced that Batman: …
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Dear Willyum, Snorkles and Denis,
Fiend of me boyhood, here’s some dread news. My parents haven’t got enough of what they vulgarly call “stamps” these days to send me to …
First-person shooter Xotic sure lives up to its name with surreal, fast-flowing gameplay.
Score: 6.5 / fair
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Naked wrestling, religious mania and The Who’s Tommy: director Ken Russell transformed British cinema. His closest collaborators recall a fierce, funny and groundbreaking talent
Glenda Jackson
I worked with Ken on six films. Women in Love was …
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“R.O.S.E Online (Rush On Seven Episodes) Screens” was posted on Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:30:03 -0800
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Child TV stars don’t find it easy to move into film. But the former Third Rock from the Sun actor has forged a successful – if unconventional – path to big-screen stardom
I’m moving through the …
You may play a feudal lord in Stronghold 3, but the tedious micromanagement and bugs make you feel like a peasant.
Score: 4.5 / poor
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Free entry to national museums seems embedded in cultural life after 10 years. But it needs securing against coalition cuts
Ten years ago on Thursday, the last of Britain’s national museums finally scrapped entrance charges. The …
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“World of Tanks Screens” was posted on Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:48:00 -0800
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Desperate Scousewives leaves you feeling just that bit grubbier for having guiltily enjoyed it
‘We’re loud and we’re proud,” said Jodie, a kaleidoscope of bottle-blonde and bottle-orange. “And Liverpool is looking gorgeous.” That last sentence is …
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“Grotesque Tactics 2: Dungeons & Donuts Screens” was posted on Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:30:01 -0800
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Oscar-nominated maverick found inspiration for his work in music and literature
After a film career full of wild drama, gaudy conflagrations and operatic flourishes, the director Ken Russell died quietly in hospital on Sunday afternoon at …
Check out the future of dungeon crawling in this beta trailer for the Legend of Grimrock.
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More than 4m pages, mostly from 19th-century newspapers, reveal that press intrusion and celebrity gossip are nothing new
As the Leveson inquiry reveals fresh horrors about press behaviour every day, the British Library’s archive of early …
Singapore online gaming platform to handle customer service, localization, events promotion, and tournaments within eight regions.
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“Garena acquires licensing rights …
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English National Opera’s latest revival of Puccini‘s Tosca is a flawed affair, though its central performance by Anthony Michaels-Moore as Scarpia makes the evening a remarkable experience. Some baritones have viewed the role primarily …
Ubisoft’s latest tactical shooter looks like a promising one, but a few parts of the game are worth keeping an eye on.
With Rainbow 6: Patriots, Ubisoft Montreal wants to draw upon the political …