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TV-to-Video Games

Michael Moscrop looks at TV-to-video games

Turning a hit TV show into a video game is nothing new. Over the years game designers have exploited successful series by transforming them onto a gaming platform, much like movie studios have cashed in on successful games by turning them onto film.Read More

Meet Meat

By Daphne Wayne-Bough, food buff, meets the meat...

A good steak is hard to find. One hardly ever orders steak in a restaurant these days, as it’s likely to be tough, stringy or chewy. And there’s the lurking idea that it requires no real cooking. Therefore, one is more likely to order battery-farmed chicken that's been marinated in chives and Pernod and gently steamed over a charcoal brazier. In other words, it's been treated better dead than alive.Read More

Sex, Lies...and Frida Kahlo

A former girlfriend once urged me to watch a movie about the life of Mexican surrealist artist Frida Kahlo. Small, often ill and with eyebrows that met in the middle (that’s Frida, not the ex), she was undoubtedly a talented, sensuous and enigmatic woman.Read More