by Harry Wenlock | Jun 5, 2026 | Activism
The fog machines were already running by the time Francesca Finch arrived on set. Bicester Airfield had been transformed along one strip into a fragment of 1940s Britain with carriages, horses, trailers dressed as period vehicles, extras wrapped in heavy knitted wool...
by Ben Simpson | Jun 5, 2026 | Activism, Heros, People, Top Story
When the late Dr Haing S. Ngor had passed, the gold plating of his Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for The Killing Fields had been rubbed off. He’d been so proud of his achievement that he’d stroked the colour off of it. It was the symbol of an extraordinary man...
by Sophie Street | Jun 4, 2026 | Activism, Latest, People
When the film Calendar Girls hit theatres in 2003, it charmed audiences worldwide with the story of a group of working-class Yorkshire women who bared it all for charity. Led by Helen Mirren’s fiercely energetic character, Chris Harper, the film portrayed the...
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 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...
