AlamyOrkney's Maeshowe tomb is a burial cairn created around 2800BC that conceals a stone-clad sepulchre (Credit: Alamy)We will probably never know the specific beliefs and rituals that inspired Maeshowe tomb. But it's nonetheless possible to understand the enormous significance of...
Apart from the sublime dialogue, flawless performances, the finger-clicking music and the mouth-watering Big Apple cinematography, there's one genius innovation that made Rob Reiner and Nora Ephron’s 1989 film so successful.By the time Harry Connick Jr is crooning away at...
Immersive shows recreating the ocean liner's fateful voyage are attracting audiences globally. But are they valuable historical experiences, or cynically turning tragedy into entertainment?The grand interior rooms of the Titanic are slowly filling up with water. Videos projected on to...
In visual media, the glitzy, greedy zeitgeist of the 1980s found expression in series such as Dynasty and Dallas, and films such as Scarface (1983) and Wall Street (1987). Launderette, a nostalgic, anachronistic pastiche of a mythical America, was served...
The third instalment in James Cameron's mega-hit blockbuster franchise is "197 minutes of screensaver graphics, clunky dialogue, baggy plotting and hippy-dippy new-age spirituality".Avatar and Avatar: The Way of Water are two of the highest-grossing films ever made, so you can...
Macall Polay(Credit: Macall Polay)7. Springsteen: Deliver Me from NowhereSpringsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere could have been this year's answer to A Complete Unknown – a drama about a revered American singer-songwriter that focused on one key point in his career....
An audacious planIn May 1951, the Glasgow University students – Ian Hamilton, Kay Matheson, Gavin Vernon and Alan Stuart – confessed all in a BBC radio interview about just what had happened that night. It all began late on Christmas...
4. The Hollow Man (1935) – John Dickson CarrWhen it comes to locked-room mysteries specifically, few are as high calibre as The Hollow Man. The novel is specifically referenced in Wake Up Dead Man by Daniel Craig's detective Benoit Blanc,...
Alamy(Credit: Alamy)A Grand Day Out (1998)Way before the feature-length Wallace and Gromit films of more recent decades, my family would tune in each Christmas to the BBC reruns of Aardman's original 1980s and 90s claymation classics. Today, the cosy, tea-and-toast-on-the-sofa...
Tom Brook was the first on the scene when the BBC reported on John Lennon's death, later interviewing his widow, Yoko Ono, and their young son. Today, he reconnects with Sean Ono Lennon on his parents' legacy – and giving...
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