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Connecting with Culture: Entertainment

Welcome to the Entertainment section of the ‘Connecting with Culture’ online article library. All the articles in this category are listed below, beginning with the one most recently added. You can search the entire category using the search facility below. Remember, every week a new ‘Connecting with Culture’ article is added to the online library, so it’s well worth visiting frequently.

Fighting for Fidelity

  • Date:

    26-02-2010

  • Author:

    Jason Gardner

Only a few months ago my wife, Rachel, who works for a sex and relationships education charity, was praising the lyrics of pop starlet Cheryl Cole's recent hit, 'Fight for this Love'. Instead of lyrics that revolved around sexual obsession or shallow infatuation, here was a love anthem about staying committed through thick and thin...

Apocalypse Now?

  • Date:

    29-01-2010

  • Author:

    Jason Gardner

'In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as he saw fit.' The concluding words of the book of Judges depict a period of lawlessness in Israel's history. It was a time when God saw fit to discipline Israel's waywardness in worshipping idols by allowing them to be overrun by their enemies...

Material Girl

  • Date:

    22-01-2010

  • Author:

    Sally Orwin

'You can't heal everything with fashion.' So said Ali Redcliffe in the first episode of Material Girl, the BBC's new prime time drama in which she features as a central character. The series has been slated by the London Evening Standard...

The Soloist

  • Date:

    09-10-2009

  • Author:

    Ian Hamlin

Whether it's the last piece of a jigsaw puzzle we're completing, or the flavour lacking in the meal we're preparing, all of us are familiar with the anxious sense that something is missing. Frequently, our anxiety stems from not being able to place exactly what it is that's missing - that one thing without which the whole seems incomplete.

An Absolute Gentleman

  • Date:

    31-07-2009

  • Author:

    Jason Gardner

Ladies, he's the perfect man: charming, irresistible, always a master of fashion, and never its slave. He's polite, he's discerning; his interests revolve around yours. He's protective, but with good reason; he's passionate, but can show constraint...

Dismissing Death

Twitter

Disconnecting with Culture

Barbie at 50

Stop Helping God Over the Road

Bruce Springsteen - Working on a Dream

Hallelujah

Spooks

Pass It On

The Name's Brand; James Brand

Collectors Cornered?

The Secret Millionaire

Hellboy 2 - The Golden Army

Who Are You?

Driven to Distraction?

Prince Caspian - Leadership Under the Lion

The Incredible Hulk

The Body in the Library

But this I know…

Three and Out

You're Hired!

Life in Cold Blood

Cloverfield

Thriller 25

Nothing's Better than the Real Thing

Liverpool Nativity

The Golden Compass

Heroes

Strictly Come Dancing

In Rainbows

Better to Burn Out?

The Bourne-Again Identity

A Hard Act to Follow

Big Brother 8

This is How the World Ends

Soul Music

Abercrombie & Fitch

Outlaw

Amazing Grace

The Safest Bet

Virtual Reward?

Missing the Magic?

Borat: Cultural Learnings

Royle Connections

The Devil Wears Prada

Sunset Ibiza

Is Gambling Fair Game?

United 93

The West Wing

My Way

The Politics of Hollywood

The Apprentice

Eastenders

The Root of all Evil?

Robbie Williams and Sin, Sin, Sin

Fact and Fantasy

No Sex Please, We're Teenagers

George and the Chocolate Factory

Big Brother

Movements and Moments

Harry Potter and the Subjects the Church Forgot

War of the Worlds

Brian Draper's Interview with Thom Yorke for Third Way

Dr Who

Paxman and the theatre of politics

Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith

The Monastery

Downfall

The New Ten Commandments

Athlete

Jerry Springer - The Opera

How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb - U2

Fable

Jesus Walks - Kanye West

Godly Play

The Village

Fahrenheit 9/11

Spiderman 2

Positively Vulgar

Taking to the streets

In Search of Nirvana

21 Grams

Dido, Love lost and safe sex

The return of the king

Love actually

Matrix Revolutions

Calendar Girls

In Da Winning Corner - Dizzee Rascal

The Hulk

Bruce Almighty

The Power of an Honest Heart

About a Boy

AI - Even Better than the Real Thing?

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