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This take on Arthur Schnitzler’s sexual debacle La Ronde is a welcome venture into the sex, love and death lives of the older generation by Visible, but ultimately feels less than the sum of its parts. The seven vignettes, where each character’s story is pushed forward into the next scene for their story to conclude, confront some traumatic home truths. However, director Anna Ledwich takes Sonja Linden’s interconnected stories and embeds them within a circus locale. A Ring Mistress comperes...

Watch 2 Minutes Of Harry Potter Magic Remixed By Eclectic Method. Turntables magician and audiovisual remixer Eclectic Method has turned his sorcery on our favourite wand waving wizard and his friends. Harry Potter and his friends grow up in just over two minutes of this house music tune - made from sounds from all eight movies. We're not sure what we love more watching the cast grow up over a decade, or the magic movie musical remix conjured up from sounds from...

Controversial author Sam Jane Brown has predicted the coming of "One World Religion" that will be imposed upon humanity by the United Nations. In her religious-themed mystery "Forgotten Word" the story alludes to a series of suspicious events that have taken place under the auspices of the UN in recent years — many of which strongly suggest that the global diplomatic body actually harbors sinister plans to eradicate traditional Christianity and replace it with a new, amoral faith based on the...

Eggs, flour, butter and BANGERS. Get your flip on with our Pancake Day Playlist. Yes, most of the songs here were selected for their relatability to this Pancakiest of days, but let's not ignore these buttery-smooth jams from the likes of MF DOOM, A Tribe Called Quest and Scienze, to name a few . And, of course, 'Banana Pancakes' by Jack Johnson is in there, which is a fluffy stack of cakey joy in itself.

This Dream is a bit of surprise- silent weavings of the spirit (or fairies) explode at the end of director Joe Hill-Gibbins' interpretation to give us something in the epilogue that is both nightmarish and joyful and brings new meanings to the play’s normal tranquil self. To this end it is clever.  At the beginning, as the audience file in, three mirrors arranged in a triptych hang threateningly in front of the audience. We can’t see anything else and in...

A new interactive film has been launched to counter the growing threat of far-right radicalisation. ‘Choices’ is a first-of-its-kind UK film which sets out to highlight the dishonesty of far-right organisations and encourage people to think critically about what they’re being told online and in social situations. Inspired by real life events, the film encourages the viewer to make decisions in real-time in an interactive journey into the world of the far-right. The plot runs on two parallel lines as the...

Having just watched the last two episodes of Taboo back to back as part of my Sunday evening wind down, I can only conclude that it is a tour de force by Tom Hardy, his writer Steven Knight ( who wrote the unusual, excellent and wonderfully named film 'Locke') his Father Ed 'Chips' Hardy, the superlative cast and the BBC. This is what TV is supposed to be, a visceral experience that leaves you desperate for the next episode. Taboo...

Last week I got my greasy mits on Nioh, the new 'dark samurai fantasy' from Team Ninja (the minds behind the  Ninja Gaiden series) and it’s safe to say the game has sunk into my conscious like so many poison shuriken. Twenty hours in, I'm traversing Japanese lands of legend, slaying Yokai (demons, scary demons) and yes, getting my face ground into paste over and over. 'Freed from this mortal coil' indeed. Nioh reviewed well, too, unexpectedly well for a title that could be...

Indulging in a season or two of your favourite TV series over a long weekend is a popular way to unwind while keeping yourself entertained for a few hours. Television gives us the opportunity to turn off our brain for an extended period, and show creators understand what keeps viewers coming back for more. In recent years, studies have shown the far-reaching impact television shows have on the lives of those who love them, including how they affect career paths....