by Joe Beck | May 26, 2026 | Latest, Leaders, Top Story, War
For over a century, filmmakers including Ridley Scott, Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese have wanted to capture Napoleon Bonaparte on screen. Yet, despite hundreds of attempts, millions of dollars, and some of cinema’s greatest minds, the true complexities of...
by Max Astle | May 26, 2026 | Latest, Leaders, Top Story
Harold Holzer is an Abraham Lincoln expert who has produced and published articles, books and served as an advisor on Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln. I spent an evening with him to see if we could find the truth, the exaggerations and the behind-the-scenes....
by Max Astle | May 26, 2026 | Latest, Music, People
The biopic Amadeus, released in 1984, depicts the life of Amadeus Mozart from his childhood to his last ten years in Vienna, and is the best example of this. In music, reception often refers to how listeners and audiences perceive, interpret, and respond to music,...
by Max Astle | May 25, 2026 | Extra, Latest, Top Story
From a mother’s touch to the blood, sweat and tears that dye the clothes from the inside out with the final group. In the Andes, the first thought is warmth, and the second is how to get it. Costume designer Julio Suárez shows us the thought process and truthful...
by Tom Preston | May 23, 2026 | Heros, Latest, People, War
Shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission at the height of the Cold War, Francis Gary Powers’s story of being captured and exchanged for a Russian spy went on to be immortalised in Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies. His son, Gary Powers Jr discusses...
by Matthew Stanger | May 23, 2026 | Latest, People, Sport
For generations, chess had been the Soviets’ game, a symbol of strategy and intellect that the US simply couldn’t attain. This wasn’t until Bobby Fischer’s American Dream style took offence to the Eastern reign and defeated Boris Spassky at the 1972 World Chess...
