Category: Entertainment

Fairy tales by the brothers Grimm inspire hugely enjoyable Christmas productions at both Covent Garden theatres, and there is nothing grim about them, apart from the usual grisly ends of the wolf in Red Riding Hood and the cannibalistic witch in Hansel and Gretel. Wolf, Witch, Giant, Fairy, at the Linbury Theatre, downstairs from the Opera House, is a deliciously uninhibited re-working of the Red Riding Hood story, souping up the plot by incorporating elements of other fairy stories including Jack and the Beanstalk, with a wicked witch, a good fairy and a talking cat thrown in for good measure. ... Read more

Grand Theft Auto fans are counting down to the release of the next major GTA Online update. Adding new features and festive surprises, the next major GTA Online update is tipped to have a December 12 release date on PlayStation, Xbox and PC. Based on previous updates, fans can expect the Grand Theft Auto Online December update to have a 10am GMT UK launch time. To ensure you don’t miss a second of the action, pre-loading appears to be available on PlayStation. That’s according to RocksterIntel, which claims that version 1.006.000 weighs in at around 6GB on PS5 and roughly ... Read more

Last call for this Mongolian epic that is visually awesome but otherwise confusing, violent and ponderous. It boasts amazing costumes and is highly coloured throughout, including Timberlake Wertenbaker’s translation which is a shade of purple unheard on these shores for many a year. Source link

Sony is getting ready to reveal the PS Plus Extra and Premium games for November 2023. The next wave of PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium releases will be officially unveiled by Sony at 4.30pm GMT on the afternoon of November 15. With the new games just days away from being revealed (and without any leaks to speak of), fans have been having fun predicting the PS4, PS5 and Classics line-up for November 2023. The games will be available to download and play from November 21. In an entertaining thread over on Reddit, multiple PS Plus subscribers believe that Final Fantasy ... Read more

Horror films can often send your pulse racing, even leading you wanting to jump behind the sofa, but it appears they could actually be good for your health.  Academics have found horror films like The Exorcist and The Shining release chemicals in your brain that often reduce stress, reports MailOnline. This can trigger happiness as well. Doctor Kristen Knowles, neuropsychologist at Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh, says the films produce endorphins and dopamine.  She said: “Researchers have found that watching horror can improve pain tolerance due to endorphin production. “The body’s response to fear or suspense is to ramp up production ... Read more

Last week Queen and Adam Lambert performed two sold-out shows at New York City’s Madison Square Garden. Just before taking the stage for the first night, Sir Brian May was “devastated” to receive the news that Phil Webb, his personal driver and bodyguard of over 30 years, had suddenly died of a heart attack. The 76-year-old guitarist managed to power on through both nights and thanked fans in the Big Apple for helping make two of the “best ever” Queen shows at his favourite venue for performing. He wrote on Instagram: “Farewell to New York City – always a bit ... Read more

It’s been over a year since Baz Luhrmann’s Oscar-nominated Elvis movie hit cinemas. While fans may be waiting for news of his long-awaited 4 hour cut of the biopic, it turns out the filmmaker is working on something else related to the King. The director posted a video on social media today of a Warner Bros box of Elvis Presley outtakes, followed by footage of the singer in Las Vegas. Baz captioned the post: “A TCB headlines that I know so many of you have been wanting to hear… “It’s true we’ve found reels and reels of never before seen ... Read more

Over the last few years, Secret Cinema has been creating immersive experiences by bringing audiences into the worlds of their favourite movies.  Rematch may take a similar approach but instead of jumping into Guardians of the Galaxy or James Bond, they take you back in time to witness real sporting history. Having previously reimagined the 1980 Borg-McEnroe Wimbledon final, this time around guests journey to 1974 Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) to witness one of the most famous boxing fights of all time. Yet the iconic heavy-weight bout between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman is only one ... Read more

Hollywood’s take on a megalodon on The Meg, (Image: ) Imagine an enormous shark weighing twice as much as a humpback whale. This giant predator is making its way through coastal waters off Africa: its body moving as if to the rhythm of a beating drum, its scythe-like fin, taller than a man, parting the waves. The megalodon, aka Otodus megalodon, or the “big meg”, is the largest predator that ever existed. Conservative estimates put its weight at 50 tonnes, more than half the weight of an adult blue whale, while some suggest as much as 100 tonnes. By comparison, ... Read more

Gamers rejoice! There used to be a time when trying to get your hands on a PS5 used to seem impossible but that has drastically changed from today.  Major retailers like Amazon, Very, GAME and Argos have been chopping the price of the PS5 to less than £400 and some bundles even include freebies that you can grab along with the console.  It comes after Sony announced that it had sold 40 million consoles worldwide and now it wants to ship even more out to the world with price cuts across the board.  With the Sony summer sale, you can ... Read more