by Max Newman | Jun 2, 2026 | Activism, Latest, People
Director Kevin MacDonald shares the challenges he faced when adapting Mohamedou Ould-Slahi’s memoir in the 2021 legal drama The Mauritanian (2021). Based on the 2015 memoir Guantanamo Diary, the film depicts Mohamedou Ould-Slahi, a Mauritanian engineer, and his...
by Joe Beck | Jun 1, 2026 | Activism, Heros, Latest, People, Top Story
On 11 April 1890, Joseph Merrick was found dead in his room at the London Hospital. Ninety years later, his life was immortalised in David Lynch’s The Elephant Man (1980), where, in one of cinema’s most famous final scenes, Merrick lies down to sleep ‘like normal...
by Harry Wenlock | May 29, 2026 | Activism, Heros, Latest, People
When Anthony Hopkins broke down at a poolside in One Life, he was channelling something most people never saw in Sir Nicholas Winton himself. The man who saved 669 children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia didn’t do emotion. But the story his daughter spent...
by Max Astle | May 29, 2026 | Activism, Culture, Latest, People
Harvey Milk was a revolutionary in the United States as in 1977 he became one of the first openly gay elected officials when he won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors untill he was assassinated. Harvey Milk’s approach to life and politics made him...
by Arib Dauhoo | May 29, 2026 | Activism, Latest
Greenwich Entertainment has released a trailer for the US release of Reading Lolita in Tehran. The movie is an adaptation of Azar Nafisi’s (played by Golshifteh Farahani in the film) 2003 autobiography about her life in Iran during the mid-1990s. The movie...
by Harry Wenlock | May 29, 2026 | Activism, Top Story
John Davidson has spent forty years trying to make the world understand Tourette syndrome. It might finally be working. Film still from I Swear (2025). Credit: via BBC When Robert Aramayo accepted the BAFTA for Best Actor in February 2026 for his...
