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The new Star Trek film premiered this week to rave reviews and a new burst of Trekkie mania. Tim Dowling introduces our beginners' guide to everything you really need to know about this seminal series (including how to dress like Captain Kirk)For those of you who missed anything, we'll start from the beginning: Space ... the Final Frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilisations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.The new Star Trek film, which premiered this week, is the prequel of all prequels, taking us 'back' to the 23rd century and the early lives of the characters from the original Star Trek series - the programme that, more than 40 years ago, gave us TV's first interracial kiss and the world's most popular split infinitive.Or it would have done, if anyone was watching. The ratings were disappointing, and Star Trek was cancelled after just three seasons and 79 episode

Entertainment Tonight"American Idol" found its top five on Wednesday night -- but first, voters told two hopefuls to disco on home! Read on to find out whose journeys ended in a dramatic double elimination. Host Ryan Seacrest wasted no time in revealing Lil Rounds as the first eliminated competitor. For her swan song, Lil reprised "I'm Every Woman" -- and, perhaps in a case of too little, too late, the judges gave her a rave review. "You sang brilliant tonight!" Paula Abdul enthused. "Lil, baby, you're just on your way," Randy Jackson said, getting Kara DioGuardi's agreement. And Simon Cowell, arguably Lil's biggest critic on the panel, said, "I'm actually a fan of you. I think you made some bad decisions, but people do that."

With its score by Duncan Sheik and Steve Sater, Rhode Island audiences get the chance to experience the smash-hit musical which plays through Sunday, April 26.

'[Artistic director Domonic] Dromgoole argues - and honestly seems to feel - that the kind of theatre the Globe does is emphatically not about pleasing the critics, but involving the audience. As such, he says, you shouldn't think RSC or the National when you visit the Globe, but Punchdrunk or Improbable - groups who, in their different ways, enfold the audience into the action. They haven't had an easy ride from the critics either.'...

Film Reviews: A spaced-out attempt at an X-ray of Spanish youth.

I'm guilty of often writing off mainstream American comics for its plethora of capes, spandex and over-endowed women. But Japanese comics are also full of stories that use and re-use...

Film Reviews: 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' is more of an action-light whodunit than a real thriller.

I could never pretend to have been a lifelong hip-hop fan or anything but I do remember the deaths of

Film Reviews: 'Coco Before Chanel' knits a convincing portrait of the designer's journey from her humble beginnings to the halls of haute couture.

A review of the new pledge product the Pledge Fabric Sweeper for Pet Hair Source: Corinne HallPublished: Apr 22, 2009