NHS hospitals battling plague of vermin, Tories reveal

As I entered the hall in central London at 4am I was greeted by hundreds of rats. Within a blink of an eyelid they vanished from sight. They live along side millions of London's residents who are largely unaware...

'Dark Knight' Sets Opening Weekend Box Office Record

"The Dark Knight", the latest film in the hugely successful Batman franchise has set a new record for the best-ever opening weekend box office draw, earning more than $155 million. Having seen the film last...

'Single Screen Theatres in India will never die'

The Western world saw the multiplex boom in the 90s, but it's India where the largest number of cinema multiplexes is coming up in the 21st century. 'Over a period of time, single screen theatres will die a...

Funding Crisis for The Arts in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

  For the musician, the actor and the singer, Germany was once the Promised Land. A symphony orchestra and theatre in every town, and state funding that put to shame almost every other country in the world....

More STAR WARS: Lucas Offers Sneak Peek in Vegas

"Lucas offered a glimpse into the latest creation in his sci-fi universe at the theatre-owners' convention ShoWest on Thursday, showing a sequence from Star Wars: The Clone Wars, a computer-animated movie due in...

Continuous Showings -- The history of your hometown theater

”From the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s,” said the U.S. Office of Management and Budget  “worker productivity rose at only 1.5 percent a year on average. In the mid-1990s, average productivity growth...

The Simpsons our societal barometer

The Simpsons movie is to be released in just over a week's time. Excitement is building as 18 years of anticipation is to be met with much 'dohing' and 'ay carambaing'. When I was a whee lad, The Simpsons was just...

NH1 plate may be worth £250,000

''Not only should Northampton Borough Council sell this number plate, they should also sell any other council owned cars, property and asset's which are not really necessary to carrying out the function of managing the Town. It's called cutting your cloth to fit the...

Uitmarkt festival opens Amsterdam's cultural season

"The Uitmarkt (site in Dutch only) is a festival marking the beginning of the new cultural season in Amsterdam. All kinds of artists perform free samples of their shows in the new season, a concept which every...

3 rep cinemas to close

"Three of Toronto's repertory cinemas, which introduced generations of movie-goers to unusual and foreign films as well as extending the run of mainstream movies, will close at the end of June. The Revue, the...

As theater owners fiddle, studios burn more DVDs

It's time for a reality check in fantasy land, as even Hollywood optimists are getting discouraged about the future of movie theaters. I wouldn't be surprised to see theater managers outside their venues, wearing tattered robes and carrying signs declaring: "The End Is...

Amphitheater plan aimed at lawn-loungers

TAMPA - Clear Channel Entertainment has infuriated neighbors and regulators with the noise from its Ford Amphitheatre, and three separate lawsuits are pending in the case.

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