News Source: BBC
| 1 day ago
Nation, at the National Theatre in London, is the latest stage adaptation of a work by celebrated British fantasy author Sir Terry Pratchett. Set in the 1870s in an alternative reality, the play pitches Daphne, a shipwrecked young aristocrat, against
News Source: Variety
| 3 days ago
As "New Moon" soared toward a $258 million opening weekend worldwide, director Chris Weitz was in discussions with Summit Entertainment for his follow-up. Weitz said he plans to go to work for Summit right away on "The Gardener," with deals in the
News Source: The Guardian
| 4 days ago
In a desperate attempt to secure its electoral base, the government is shamefully wooing religious extremists As every middlebrow with a newspaper column or Radio 4 slot to fill agrees, a vulgar "new atheism " is sweeping Britain. The readers of
News Source: The Guardian
| 9 days ago
The Guardian Review will reveal its own (definitive, obviously) list of the last 10 years' best and brightest on December 5; but here on the blog we thought we'd open up the selection process. We'll be blogging a different year every couple of days
News Source: Leader Post Online
| 17 days ago
In fact, New Moon's expected to surpass the $384-million US that Twilight scooped up at theatres worldwide last year. Opening on Nov. 20, the Chris Weitz-directed New Moon continues the otherworldly romantic adventures of teen Bella Swan (Kristen
News Source: The Guardian
| 19 days ago
The Enchanted Hunters is the hotel where the predatory monster Humbert Humbert has his way with the nymphet Lolita. Maria Tatar is the author of the excellent Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales as well as works on the Bluebeard story, Hans
News Source: The Independent
| 23 days ago
National Union of Teachers launched plans to consult their members over a boycott of the tests in maths and English next May. Christine Blower, general secretary of the NUT, said her organisation would be asking its members to back three actions: a
News Source: The independent
| 24 days ago
We've had demonstrations outside Television Centre while the BNP's Nick Griffin was smuggled into the BBC; we've had mobs descending on the offices of the law firm Carter-Ruck for its "super-injunctions" on behalf of the waste company Trafigura, and