Arts & Culture

Things I’ve Loved is a celebration of things from the near or distant past, either overlooked or forgotten by the unforgiving eye of popular culture. It is a venue to both reminisce and profess...

You want to be a novelist. Come on, admit it: it’s your lifelong goal to write an entire narrative, start to finish, with a complete cast of characters and a good wholesome plot. There are...

Before my brother forced me to learn how to play StarCraft — so that he could enjoy ruthlessly murdering me without consequences, no doubt — I did not know that computer games other than...

Emilio Estevez’s films (first Bobby and now The Way) read to me as cinematic fortune cookies: dubious, unenlightening and, most of all, disposable. In Bobby, a glorious train wreck featuring an ensemble of B-list...

There aren’t many people happy right now with the men and women who work on Wall Street. Tower Heist, directed by Brett Ratner, is a movie attempting to cash-in on that hostility by having...

I’m Batman. Ok, that’s not true, but I feel like Batman and you can too with Batman: Arkham City. After a long and rather disappointing gaming history, 2009’s Batman: Arkham Asylum surprised a lot of people...

1. Risk — This is probably my favourite board game of all time. Truthfully, though, it is not a game for everyone. You must be patient, ruthless, cunning and cruel to be successful at...