Gunn's most striking idea is to start his story not at the beginning, but somewhere around the middle, as if this were the third or fourth film in the series. When we first meet Superman, played by the suitably handsome...
This ultra-violent, sexually graphic film was condemned – but became influential Source link...
The exact date the monument went up is contested, but its official centenary was celebrated on 13 July 2023, making it 102 years old this week. It has now become synonymous with the film industry, but it wasn't originally intended...
All the same, few comic characters were as militant as Superman. In one early issue, he demolishes a row of slum homes in order to force the authorities to build better housing (a risky strategy, that one). In another, he...
By that measure, All Fours has been an unequivocal success. On July's Substack page, a community of women have gathered to share not just their love for the book, but how it has changed their lives. They talk of feeling...
The harsh conditions were totally alien to most people there. "The crew complained a lot about the heat, humidity, hotel rooms, bugs, mosquitoes," he says. "The mud – sometimes knee-deep – was a real challenge." Damien Leake, who played a...
Getty ImagesThe Championships have begun, and the quintessentially British tennis tournament has some very particular codes for attendees to follow. How are spectators expected to behave, and what should they – or should they definitely not – wear?Afternoon tea, a...
Universal StudiosStarring Scarlett Johansson and Jonathan Bailey, the latest in the dinosaur blockbuster series follows the template created by the original Jurassic Park – but it's no match for it.Eww. There is a definite whiff of staleness about the latest...
In July 1987, 38 years ago this week, a Nazi war criminal, the "Butcher of Lyon", was sentenced to life in prison by a French court for crimes against humanity. Four years earlier, in 1983, the BBC reported on how...
AlamyOne of show business's most glamorous – and notorious – images, there's more to this 1957 snapshot of Sophia Loren and Jayne Mansfield than might first appear.On the night of Sophia Loren's "Welcome to Hollywood" dinner party in April 1957,...
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