1+ hour, 55+ min ago  (232+ words) Birmingham RepThe bands that came to symbolise a divided nation compete to top the charts in John Niven's jokey play but it is woefully short on drama These ideas are covered by Niven's jokey script, but the novelist turned playwright…...

2+ day, 39+ min ago  (507+ words) The answer to today's peaky poser Earlier today I set you this logic puzzle. Here is is again with the solution. (If you found it too simple. Here's a harder version.) Ade, Binky, and Carl are honest perfect logicians. A…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago  (477+ words) Gangsterism review " dense, high-minded cine-manifesto on the notion of auteurism'The Guardian Gangsterism review " dense, high-minded cine-manifesto on the notion of auteurism Canadian experimentalist Isiah Medina's latest flits between radical and grandiloquent, but deserves close reading and exasperated sighs in equal…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago  (839+ words) We explore the cosy world-building spin-off with Game Freak's Shigeru Ohmori and his fellow developers " and learn how it began with a Pok'mon-hunting dreamPok'mon is celebrating its 30th anniversary this month, and everybody knows what to expect from these games by…...

6+ day, 9+ hour ago  (1105+ words) As Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights gets a boost from a new film adaptation, we survey the surprising, seditious and sensual ways in which prose has influenced pop The oeuvre of Katy Perry occasionally has some profoundly unexpected inspirations: California Gurls…...

6+ day, 13+ hour ago  (679+ words) Super Nintendo by Keza MacDonald review " a joyful celebration of the gaming giant'The Guardian Super Nintendo by Keza MacDonald review " a joyful celebration of the gaming giant A portrait of the company whose "toymaker philosophy" stands in contrast to the…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago  (231+ words) Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork has created a sound installation emulating second world war spaces: a Japanese internment camp in California and caves used as bunkers in Okinawa "I've gone through a lot of video footage about the camps," Kiyomi Gork says....

1+ week, 5+ hour ago  (323+ words) The YouTube gaming star's weird and divisive adaptation of his obscure horror film is a game within a film about a game " and hints at new directions for storytelling Whatever you make of Iron Lung, I'm sure we'll see more…...

1+ week, 19+ hour ago  (330+ words) The premise is simple: an unlikable group of strangers try to climb one of the New Zealand Alps, despite being vastly unsuited to it. I despise the show, the contestants, and myself for watching it There are others, and other…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (799+ words) PlayStation 5 (version tested), Xbox, PC; Grasshopper Manufacture/Marvelous Inc After some dumb fun hacking at zombies, legendary developer Suda51s first original game in a decade sadly only delivers a host of incoherent disappointmentsEver since he baffled GameCube owners with 2005s Killer7, Japanese game…...