by Harry Wenlock | Jun 4, 2026 | Activism, Latest, People
On National Hug Your Cat Day, we revisit one of cinema’s most unlikely redemption stories and the ginger tom who made it possible. There is a moment in A Street Cat Named Bob (2016) where James Bowen, a homeless addict barely keeping himself alive on the streets of...
by Matthew Stanger | Jun 4, 2026 | Latest, People, Top Story
When Flight 1549 took off from LaGuardia Airport, Sully Sullenberger and Jeff Skiles thought it would be a regular flight to Seattle, with a planned intermediate stop in North Carolina. Neither of them thought that they were about to lose both engines of their...
by Ben Simpson | Jun 4, 2026 | People, Sport
Sean Porter was a deputy probation officer at Camp Vernon Kilpatrick, with one simple idea: to change the lives of the kids in his juvenile detention centre. He wanted to bring them together through American football. And so, the Kilpatrick Mustangs were born. Porter...
by Matthew Stanger | Jun 3, 2026 | Culture, People, Top Story
For the UK release of ‘Leonora in the Morning Light’, documenting the life of surrealist painter and novelist Leonora Carrington, Histoflick writer Matt Stanger attended a Special Q+A after a showing of the film with directors Lena Vurma and Thor Klein at the Showroom...
by Ben Simpson | Jun 2, 2026 | Latest, People, Top Story
Wladyslaw Szpilman’s story was anything but ordinary; a Polish Jewish pianist evading capture in the Ghettos of Warsaw by sheer will, wit, and immense luck, watching his people ordered to their death at the camps of Treblinka. His parents and his brother were some of...
by Max Astle | Jun 2, 2026 | Culture, Heros, Latest, People, War
Alan Turing biographer, Jack Copeland, discusses the massive misconceptions about the World War II British hero who cracked Germany’s Enigma code. The Imitation Game focuses on Alan Turing, a mathematician, computer scientist, and cryptographer, who is often...
