Epic adventure goes above and beyond
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Lately, I have been asked if there is anything really good playing at the movies. Now I have something to rave about -- a film called &quot;Hero.
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As global warming melts the Arctic ice, dreams of a short sea passage to Asia - and riches beneath the surface - have been revived. But who will win the world's new Great Game?
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The fourth installment in the series boasts a smart concept and even higher octane action.
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Wynn Resorts' merits stretch far beyond Las Vegas.
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The riveting adventure documentary about a catastrophic sailing race around the world is one of the year's best releases.
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Believe in the eighth wonder of the world.
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From a gentles creature, a lesson in ferocious tenacity.
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With the Incredibles atop the movie charts, superheroes are flying higher than ever. Now one expert says some superpowers are not exactly far-fetched.
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Now they're really boldly going where no one has gone before.
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Sure he may have walked through the Great Wall of China, wooed   Claudia Schiffer and used his superpowers to thwart would-be robbers,   but those were mere parlor tricks. Now David Copperfield is ready for   his greatest feat: immortality.
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Gird your aching loins for one of the biggest game launches of all time.
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Tycho:   The foe revealed, Armadeaddon is now almost complete.  Monday will see the promised epilogue, so at this point you have very nearly survived the ordeal.  We have endeavored these past weeks to reward the true "enthusiast," that man or woman who, brow heavy, has faced such cruel abuse at our hand for the last seven years.  It is apparently our policy to honor such dedication one every decade.    Since it was announced a couple days ago, the revelation that MS would be actively courting the hardcore boardgame player is something I've thought about almost constantly.  It may be that you weren't aware there was such a thing as a hardcore player of boardgames if your last experience with the context was playing Sorry! with your sister when you were eight.  Things have progressed.   There's a million experiences in this space I could use to lure you in, but one company in particular - Days of Wonder has already decided to make electronic variants of their tabletop crack, so they occupy a twilight space between the worlds.  I hope they see an opportunity to take their (already completed!) games over to the 360, or that Microsoft offers them a locked case containing an unspecified amount of untraceable U.S. Currency, because I'd love to see this prescient move by MS turn into a new era.   Days of Wonder makes a game called Shadows Over Camelot that could quickly become a dangerous obsession, obscuring biological realities with a single-minded focus on grails.  Well, grail I guess.  There's just the one.    But it's a completely cooperative boardgame, so every player is working toward the same goals - fighting back invasions, questing, all of it.  Except there might be a traitor in the group, determined by a hidden draw, who tries to derail the effort.  He's not always there, but the potentiality of that nefarious force can create unbelievable social tension.    The gaming table's fixed coordinate in space is its asset and its obstacle - managing space and time is actually the primary challenge of any gaming group, as opposed to banishing necromancers, though that also ranks up there.  Boardgames are so rich in design that, when one of these gets dropped in front of them on Live, I think many gamers will be shocked at their sophistication.    My thumbs hurt.  (CW)TB out.
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Thereâsa magic in the Broadway musical that seems to transcend cultural styles and circumstances and generations. Whether breaking new ground or reviving a classic
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Imagine the unimaginable... and you just might achieve it.
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Conquering much of the world was a piece of cake for Alexander the Great. Conquering the North American box office is another thing.
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In many ways, director Oliver Stone's "Alexander" is an epic like they used to make 'em: big, bold, undeniably cinematic and crammed with star power.
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Arts & entertainment: Kipling called it 'a river of life'. Chris Arnot on a unique attempt to capture the spirit of the 1,500 mile-long Grand Trunk Road.