Many people around the world enjoy a game of poker from time to time with their friends while others enjoy a career as a professional poker player in tournaments. The traditional form of poker has been around for many years but there are also plenty of poker variants that players can...
A new battle royale game from the creators of mech shooter Titanfall offers squad-based play in a ruined sci-fi world – but is it enough to take on Fortnite?
It was only a matter of time before another world-class game developer entered the lucrative battle royale genre. The new...
Kim Kardashian said she’s working to take on more cases involving harsh prison sentences, but wants to take it a step further by employing former inmates in her businesses.
Speaking on NBC’s "Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon," the reality TV star recalled her high-profile campaign to have President Trump commute the life sentence...
Fiji Water says lawsuit by model Kelleth Cuthbert, whose images on the red carpet went viral, is ‘frivolous’ and ‘without merit’
Forget Glenn Close. Ignore Sandra Oh. The real breakout star of this year’s Golden Globe awards was – without question – the Fiji Water girl, the hostess who stole attention...
The actor broke through with films like Boyz n the Hood and Jerry Maguire, but with Oscar buzz around her new movie, she’s really hitting her stride
In all the heat and light of prediction surrounding this year’s Oscar shortlists, one category appears easier to call than most. Regina King...
An attractive cast and a handful of arresting visuals can’t save this glossy, underwritten tale of a barman losing his mind
During my particular screening of Wounds at this year’s Sundance film festival, there was an added in-cinema soundtrack. Certain reactions are to be expected when watching a button-pushing horror,...
All the excitement of the earlier films has been lost in this third outing for the animated series based on Cressida Cowell’s books
Here is the third and – we have to hope – the last in a franchise that could be renamed How to Drain Your Dragon. All the...
The once stuffy genre has been given a reboot, with emotional truth as important as historical fidelity
Modern Toss on period dramas
As Oscar season hots up, the frontrunner in several categories is The Favourite, Yorgos Lanthimos’s marvellously mad film about jostling for power in Queen Anne’s court. The film’s success represents Olivia...
Duncan Jones says family has not approved film, but instead proposes Neil Gaiman project
David Bowie’s son, Duncan Jones, has said that producers of a proposed biopic about the musician have not secured the rights to use his father’s music or the approval of his family.
Jones was responding to reports that Johnny Flynn,...
Sadler’s Wells, LondonGandini Juggling and Alexander Whitley’s collaboration is full of simple pleasures and intricate skill
Ahybrid of juggling and contemporary dance? Now that’s niche, you may say. But there is actually nothing obscure about this collaboration between Sean Gandini’s juggling troupe and choreographer Alexander Whitley. Spring is a 60-minute...