The Book Club is dead! Long live The School for Gifted Children! Robin Ince's Book Club, for the unacquainted, was a delightfully ramshackle evening of intellectual mirth and experimentation, which was given a grand farewell in December at the British Museum. Tonight The School for Gifted Children kickstarts the glorious sounding N20 Comedy Festival for show, stories, songs and outright lies in the dinky Studio 68 at Battersea Arts Centre. Robin Ince is in......

Shoreditch Park is a relatively unimpressive green space tucked away behind the Regent’s Canal in Hoxton. There’s not a great deal there, bar a mini-BMX track and some grass, but this weekend, it won’t know what’s hit it, when the Shoreditch Festival commandeers it. The theme of the festival is transforming local spaces and the park promises to be a riot of family tropicana, congo and mangoes on Saturday with a grand parade leaving......

The Pool of London gets turned on today as Switched ON London kicks off: A seven night celebration of the relationship between light, architecture and the city consisting of temporary lighting installations and a series of light related events with an overall concept theme of 'theatre'. So, the 'Gods of Light' willing, London's first festival of light will run from the 8th to the 16th February 2007 The Tower of London, HMS Belfast, London......

Given that we're actually due some sunshine this weekend, we have our doubts that attending a film festival will be at the top of many people's lists. Especially when they learn that all the films being shown are about FOOTBALL. For most, the only cinematic football offering that approaches anywhere near an acceptable level of quality (and then only in an ironic 'this is shit but in a good way' fashion) might be 'Escape......

...kicks off at the end of the month with an Opening Night Gala screening of Happy Endings which we'll be reviewing sometime ahead of the festival. It stars Maggie Gyllenhaal, Lisa Kudrow and Steve Coogan. If you enjoyed The Opposite of Sex, then we think you'll like this LA based comedy too. The Festival closes with the UK's first certified Dogme95 film, Gypo. Galas aside the majority of screenings will take place at the......

The Firecracker Showcase opens tonight with a bittersweet romance from mainland China. Nuan tells the story of one man's return to the village he grew up in and the people he left behind, most notably the title character, Nuan, his first love. The film follows the few days he is back home coupled with flashbacks explaining how it was he came to leave and how the life of the headstrong Nuan took a very......

The London Film Festival has just announced its opening and closing movies. The Opening Night Gala will celebrate the UK Premiere of Fernando Meirelles' THE CONSTANT GARDENER starring Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz. Based on the best-selling novel by John le Carré, THE CONSTANT GARDENER tells the story of one man's journey to uncover the truth behind a personal loss and a global conspiracy. The strong supporting cast includes Danny Huston and Bill Nighy.......

We just had the first eight movies confirmed for this year's FrightFest and the news made us very happy. Land of the Dead is set to kick things off and there's a chance that George Romero himself will be on hand to introduce it. That will help calm the annoyance we feel at having to wait so long for the damn thing. The first part of the epic Russian horror trilogy Night Watch is......