11 of the best films to watch this October
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This England review: Boris Johnson drama is ‘too soon’
In an interview, Ophelia Lovibond described the project as "trying to help make sense of a really confusing time through ...
Why Jennifer Lopez is Hollywood’s most underestimated star
The song, the lead single from her third album This is Me… Then, was the creation of Andre Deyo, a ...
The Rosetta Stone: The real ancient codebreakers
Champollion, following a similar path, initially downplayed the phonetic element of the script. His first thought was that hieroglyphs represented ...
Why Marilyn Monroe is the world’s most misunderstood icon
Hollywood amped up her sex-pot image. Promoting her starring role in Niagara (1953), the tagline was dripping with innuendo: "Marilyn ...
The ‘dangerous’ books too powerful to read
The legend of the Sibylline Books tells us that in an ancient city, a woman offered to sell its citizens ...
Star Wars: Andor review: Prequel series is ‘uneven’
Rather than being under direct Imperial control, Ferrix has instead been outsourced to a nebulous corporation. It is an interesting ...
Orlando: The most subversive history film ever made
As the writer So Mayer explains, this was a contradictory moment. "What's happening in the early 1990s is the crest ...
Why Her Majesty the Queen was a cultural icon like no other
Queen Elizabeth II's evolving dress sense was a masterclass in royal image-making. In this article, first published in June, we ...
Have film and TV got Gen Z all wrong?
Bodies Bodies Bodies attempts a precarious balance between empathy and mockery, more often leaning towards the latter in widely generalised ...