Whether it was making the coolest films of the 90s, the most controversial films of the noughties or just being his volatile self on camera, Quentin Tarantino has been entertaining us for over twenty years.

To mark the director's 50th birthday, we're counting down our top 50 Tarantino moments, from...

The timing couldn’t be better for an exhibition devoted to David Bowie.

For what could have been merely a tribute to a much-loved heritage act is actually a show about the man of the moment: an album chart topper, who has just renewed himself...

The most eye-catching poster plastered on billboards these past six months has undoubtedly been for 'The Book Of Mormon', the comedy musical that opens in the UK this week.

It’s not so much the amusing image of a leaping Mormon that stands out but the review quotes that run along...

The makers of British crime thriller 'Welcome To The Punch' scored a bit of casting coup.

We don't mean James McAvoy or Mark Strong - fine actor though they are - but Canary Wharf. Unlike the powers behind 'Skyfall', the creators of the film (out this week) were granted access...

For decades, British people were able to rely on a simple equation to take care of their romantic lives: proximity + alcohol + hope.

The idea was simple: be in the same place as the person you liked, consume enough booze to feel relaxed enough to talk to them,...

Comic Relief's funny moments are a rare example of a deal in which everyone wins.

The rich and the famous are presented with a perfect opportunity to make fun of themselves (whilst letting us know they care), audiences at home get to enjoy surreal sights like Tony Blair pretending to...

In 2008 a small boy with wide eyes, a glossy grin and a helmet of swept brown hair by the name of Justin Bieber was held up to the altar of celebrity, and all around the world a new generation of teenie boppers came together to sing his...

Mobile phone apps encouraging women to 'train' their boyfriends like pets and rate unsuspecting men on their looks are on the rise: but is it offensive, or all just a bit of fun...?

As a white, straight, middle class, able-bodied male it's rare I get asked to write...

As Shameless enters its eleventh and final series on Channel 4, it's interesting to wonder what kind of an impact it could have had if 2013 was the start rather than the end of Frank Gallagher's story.

In the beginning, Paul Abbot's drama was a compelling...

Last night Charlie Brooker's terrific second series of Black Mirror came to an end with 'The Waldo Moment', by far the least creepy or inventive episode of the trilogy that was nevertheless a compelling conclusion to the TV highlight of the year so far.

In an era of endless revivals, reboots and remakes, it’s looking increasingly as though David Bowie is making the perfect comeback.

At the start of the year he left fans and critics alike misty-eyed with the surprise release of a new single, and now reports suggest that he...

It’s a crime caper entirely befitting the master of surrealism.

According to New York prosecutors, last summer Phivos Istavrioglou strolled into an Upper East Side gallery, popped a valuable Salvador Dali painting into a shopping bag and simply walked out past several guards in broad daylight.

Unfortunately for Phivos Istavrioglou...

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The first 45 minutes of White Bear, the second episode of Charlie Brooker's trilogy of technology-fearing dystopias, played out like a low-budget, low-quality version of 28 Days Later. It's basically the worst thing he's ever written, which, you come to realise, is the...

Imagining the Royals as they were in Tudor times has brought Hilary Mantel unprecedented literary success.

Now, this year's Booker Prize winner has attracted attention of a different kind by discussing the current Royal Family, describing Kate Middleton as a "shop window mannequin" with a "plastic smile", no personality and...

Yoko Ono has long been thought of as a divisive figure, the butt of countless jokes about breaking up the greatest band of all time.

The irony, of course, is that all she has ever tried to preach through her art and her music is unity and love.

Last year,...

Roy Lichtenstein died in 1997, when the internet was still only a 100,000 or so websites, before anyone had 'Googled' anything and broadband was nothing more than a geek's wet dream.

And so he never lived to see how, today, his experiments with...

All this week, we've been celebrating Valentine's Day with some of the UK's best spoken word artists as they reflect on love, loss and, er, science.

Sally Jenkinson, Raymond Antrobus, Mr. Gee, Fran Byrne, Bridget Minamore and James Bunting have all offered up brilliant alternatives to the greeting card slush...

"In this life, even the smallest, least majestic victories deserve a coronation..."

In the last of our Valentine's poems, Bristol-based Sally Jenkinson performs her beautiful and melancholic reflection on a love affair, 'More Words Than We Deserve'.

Sally Jenkinson runs Poetry Pulpit, an open-mic poetry night in Bristol.

The Great Gatsby, Pride and Prejudice and several other literary classics have been given a Pulp-style redesign.

Released by Oldcastle Books, the new covers evoke the wry humour and rough-edged illustrations popular with magazines in the 1950s and 60s.

The reworking of Gatsby – which includes the strap line ’When...

The fourth of our Valentine's poets is Mr. Gee, a regular on the London spoken word scene and co-founder of the London collective Chill Pill. One of the capital's most charismatic poets, he specialises in writing and performing for the radio as well as live, appearing regularly on BBC Radio...