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 Christopher Randall | Jun 2, 2026 | Culture, Latest, Music, Top Story
If you can brush past the high-flying singalongs and postcard-perfect Austrian mountains, you’ll find that The Sound of Music tells a story of something darker in its own way. But how, and why, does your favourite model musical avoid the twisted truth of history? ‘The...
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 Moleed Mire | Jun 2, 2026 | Activism, Culture, Music, Present Day
What does Elvis Presley, Amy Winehouse and Weird Al Yankovic have in common? All three are famous musicians, and all have had a biopic made about their lives that have been released in the past decade. They’re not the only ones. Robbie Williams, Bob Dylan, David...
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...
