Category: Entertainment

Black Friday doesn’t officially take place until November 29, but that hasn’t stopped companies like Nintendo from kicking off sales early. Featuring discounts on hundreds of games, the Nintendo Switch eShop Black Friday sale runs from now until end of play on December 1. As part of the sale, Nintendo has reduced the price of […]

Sir Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk is a modern classic, but did you know there was another British World War II film about the evacuation? Back in 1958, Leslie Norman directed a movie of the same name depicting Operation Dynamo through the experiences of three characters. This recreation of the 1940 turning point in the conflict saw […]

Having been Queen’s guitarist for over half a century, Sir Brian May has had monumental success. Yet the incredibly down-to-earth rock star doesn’t see himself as a celebrity but as a musician who’s also an astrophysicist, stereoscopy enthusiast and animal rights campaigner. With so many interests and causes, the 77-year-old is involved in many projects […]

The BBC transmitted a 26-part adaptation of Galsworthy’s saga in 1968. Such was its grip on the nation that Sunday evening church services were moved back an hour to allow the faithful to be stationed at their goggleboxes in time for the latest episode. This new stage adaptation by Shaun McKenna and Lin Coghlan comes […]

The Tales of Hoffmann began life around 1800 as a series of short stories by the German fantasist E.T.A. Hoffmann. Some of these were turned into a play, which the German-born French composer Jacques Offenbach turned into an opera which received its premiere in February 1881, four months after the composer died. The opera tells […]

Donizetti’s Elisir d’Amore is in many ways the most genuinely funny of all comic operas but changing its setting from rural Italy to Second World War England loses some of its charm. In the original, Nemorino is a guileless yokel, besotted with a bar owner named Adina whose charms he seeks to capture through a […]

Meanwhile, The Gentleman’s Theo James is on 5-2 and Gladiator II star Paul Mescal is at 4-1. Also in the mix are the following: Callum Turner 5-1, James Norton 6-1, Jack Lowden 7-1, Regé-Jean Page, Damson Idris and Henry Cavill on 8-1, Cillian Murphy and Lucien Laviscount on 10-1 and Aaron Pierre on 12-1. It […]

If the price of the PS5 Pro seems a bit too steep for your liking, there’s always some great prices on the original PS5 as Amazon drops the cost.  The PS5 Digital Console is now prices at £369.99 in the weeks before Black Friday officially launches. A deal that keen gamers can also find matched […]

Sleep Token, the iconic, cult-status alt-rock band, has seen a steady rise in popularity over recent years. Just as recently as 2022 they were headlining venues such as Eventim Apollo. Now, they’re set to perform two headline shows at London’s O2 Arena. The band, led by the macabre maestro Vessel, has made waves in global […]

The countdown is on for the launch of open-world survival game STALKER 2 Heart of Chornobyl. STALKER 2 Heart of Chornobyl has a November 20 release date on Xbox Series X|S and PC via Steam. According to the official countdown timer, STALKER 2 Heart of Chornobyl has a 4pm GMT release time for players living […]