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...
by Matthew Stanger | May 23, 2026 | Leaders, People, Present Day, Top Story
Ali Abbasi’s The Apprentice laid bare one of the most revealing chapters of Donald Trump’s past. From Roy Cohn’s mentorship to Trump’s furious public backlash, the film traces how an origin story long dismissed suddenly became politically explosive in the shadow of...
by Tom Preston | May 23, 2026 | Latest, War
Jack El-Hai published the book The Nazi and the Psychiatrist in 2013; last year, it was adapted into Nuremberg, a film depicting the psychological standoff between Hermann Göring and psychiatrist Douglas Kelley before the Nuremberg trials. But what inspired El-Hai to...
by Tom Preston | May 23, 2026 | Latest, People
Centring on the life of Hugh Glass, a 19th-century fur trapper who survives a near-fatal grizzly bear attack, Tom Preston delves into the historical truth behind The Revenant for HistoFlick to reveal just how far the triple Oscar-winning epic strays from reality. One...
by Ben Simpson | May 23, 2026 | Activism, Heros, Latest, Top Story
How Kubrick and Trumbo forged Spartacus into a symbol of rebellion during the civil rights era in America, and how Kirk Douglas’ fight against oppression goes beyond the film reel. The day is October 28th, 1947. American screenwriter Dalton Trumbo stood before the...
