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Zuckerberg may have a point, but it's hardly the first time that a film has twisted the truth for dramatic and thematic purposes. "As a historian and someone who believes very strongly in media literacy, I always approach and encourage...

"The idea started as a concept after watching Poltergeist for probably the 100th time," Leonberg tells BBC Culture. "In the opening of that film, the family's dog clearly senses the presence of the ghost before anyone else. That trope of...

Released on 24 October in the US and Canada, and internationally from 30 OctoberDisneySpringsteen: Deliver Me from NowhereAre we moving on from the era when pop music biopics such as Ray, Walk the Line and Elvis would squeeze decades of...

Less than a year earlier, Teresa Gullace, a six-month-pregnant mother of five had been shot in Rome by a Nazi soldier after she waved at her captive husband. In the film, Francesco shouts "Teresa", as an homage. At the time,...

 Apple TV+10. Down Cemetery RoadEmma Thompson and Ruth Wilson team up in this suspense series based on one of Mick Herron's non-Slow Horses novels, the first of his four Zoë Boehm books. Thompson plays Zoë, in a leather jacket and...

Enter William Taynton, a 20-year-old office boy who was working downstairs from Baird's makeshift laboratory. He told the BBC 40 years later to the day: "Mr Baird came rushing down full of excitement and almost dragged me out of my...

Wearing rubber boots, Zelano waded from the train station through Strada Nova, which was still about 40cm (1ft 3in) underwater. She went to the house of a friend of a friend. The tide had retreated by the time she got...

This coding error occurred in World 1 level 2, which was introduced on screen as "World 1-2". After Mario had glided through the wall and down the pipe in World 1-2, text would appear on the screen to indicate which...

Eldest son Arthur expected that the role to be given to him, and that he'd enjoy a free hand with his controlling interest in the brewery, only to learn at the reading of his father's will that he would be...

The formal innovations might not have worried the Lord Chamberlain too much, but some of the songs' lyrics would definitely have had him reaching for his blue pencil, especially those with the "four-letter words, explicit sexual content, rituals, drugs" mentioned...