by Max Astle | Jun 1, 2026 | Latest, Leaders, Present Day, Top Story
Nearly half a century ago, Idi Amin ruled Uganda with an authoritarian fist. Kevin Macdonald captured the man in The Last King of Scotland. 20 years on since the film’s release, the story resonates with Forest Whitaker and James McAvoy showing the dark...
by Lewis Kennedy | Jun 1, 2026 | Latest, Leaders, People, Top Story
Forty years on from its release, ‘Lady Jane’ (1986) remains the defining screen portrait of one of history’s most overlooked figures. Directed by Trevor Nunn, written by David Edgar, and starring a nineteen-year-old Helena Bonham Carter in her film...
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 Matthew Stanger | Jun 1, 2026 | Culture, Latest, Top Story
In Brian De Palma’s 1987 classic The Untouchables, Eliot Ness is framed as the righteous savior who rescued Chicago from the clutches of Al Capone. But historical reality reveals a very different story, a cash-strapped former agent who manufactured a myth to rewrite...
by Max Newman | May 29, 2026 | Latest, Leaders, Top Story, War
Head of the Churchill Archives, Allen Packwood OBE, discusses the reason films about Winston Churchill avoid his controversies. Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister during World War II, is often celebrated as a ‘bulldog warrior,’ with many lauding his strong...
by Tom Preston | May 29, 2026 | Culture, Top Story
Blue Moon follows one evening in the tragic life of Lorenz Hart, half of the songwriting duo Rodgers and Hart whose fame in the 1930s screenwriter Robert Kaplow likens to Lennon-McCartney, but what was it about the lyricist and this evening in particular that inspired...
