If you need someone to adapt an all-American bestseller involving aquatic wildlife, Olivia Newman is the film-maker for you. Following 2022’s Where the Crawdads Sing, Newman has co-written and directed Remarkably Bright Creatures, a drama based on Shelby Van Pelt’s octopus-centric novel. Sally Field stars as Tova, a grieving aquarium …

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Today, just a few volumes in the library are chained – purely for display purposes. And the remaining books are now placed in the modern fashion with their spines out. But otherwise, the medieval room remains a remarkable time capsule of the library’s history. Near the entrance, visitors can even …

Two years ago, Richard Gadd had a surprise TV hit with his autobiographical Netflix drama about being stalked. This follow-up about two step-brothers is equally shocking. In Richard Gadd’s follow up to his galvanising Netflix hit Baby Reindeer, the character he plays roars on to the screen, a glaring, fearsome …

You could see Alpert’s popularity as a last hurrah for the sort of jazz-inflected easy listening that ruled the airwaves in the pre-Elvis era. But there was clearly something in these breezy instrumentals that captured the mid-60s zeitgeist, too. “I played A Taste of Honey in Seattle, Washington, and people …

This saccharine, reverential biopic about controversial music legend Michael Jackson is set to be one of the worst films of 2026 – removing “everything that might be deemed dramatic”. It’s bad. It’s bad. It’s really, really bad. The new Michael Jackson biopic, Michael, is produced by several of his relatives …

The lots were sold over a four-day period from 23 to 26 April 1996 across nine separate sessions. Space in the sale room was limited to about 2,000 potential buyers a day. Sotheby’s anticipated that the auction would raise more than $4.6m ($9.4m or £7m today). By the time the …

All the same, the allegations remain a part of Jackson’s life story, complicating the attempt to turn his life into a nine-figure Hollywood blockbuster. But given current demand for the pop star, it’s likely to be a big hit, too. Industry analysts are predicting that Michael will be even bigger than …

3. Rain Harvest Home, co-designed by Javier Sanchez Arquitectura and Robert Hutchison Architecture This is the porch of a family-owned bolthole in Valle de Bravo, a popular holiday destination for inhabitants of Mexico City, completed in 2020. Rainwater is harvested in this space, which contains a bathhouse, plunge pool under …

8. Kiki de Montparnasse with her Friends Thérèse Treize de Caro and Lily (Kiki de Montparnasse avec ses amies Thérèse Treize de Caro et Lily (c 1932)) Estate Brassai/ Succession Philippe Ribeyrolles copy At the same time that Brassaï was exploring Paris’s underworld he was also hanging out in bohemian artistic circles. …

Wintour has shrewdly positioned herself as someone game enough to embrace a caricature of herself. And the caricature is likely to be kinder now This is not the only recent film publicity tour to blur the lines between actors and fictional characters, an approach that suits this cultural and political …

She continued to work on music throughout the 1960s, but at a slower pace, while taking various jobs including a stint as the editor of the influential Journal for Conflict Resolution in Michigan. In letters to loved ones, written just before she vanished, she said she had struggled in life …

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In the 1930s, detailed X-ray analyses of the painting were undertaken and the unicorn discovered and restored. Later, in the 1950s, decades after every trace of the Saint Catherine disguise had been removed from the portrait, further radiographic analysis of the painting’s hidden layers revealed what appeared to be an …

Four years on, the provocative HBO drama is back, with Zendaya, Jacob Elordi and Sydney Sweeney all returning. Unfortunately, though, “it has become a series with very little to say”. Of all the twists you might have anticipated for Euphoria’s third and (rumoured) final season, turning Rue’s (Zendaya) story into …

From an outrageous Ryan Murphy body horror to a new Game of Thrones prequel BBC News

Although fewer than 1% of infections led to paralysis, the sheer scale of polio outbreaks meant that large numbers of children still ended up in iron lungs. They might remain encased from the neck down for days, months or even years. The patients Zogran cared for were still contagious, and …

And if Woo helped lay the foundations of modern action cinema, Chow was right alongside him, showing what the ideal action hero for these times looked like, both in Woo’s own work and other action classics like Ringo Lam’s City on Fire (1987). “He grounds the fanciful action of John …

Unexpected violence Tony’s shooting is arguably the ultimate example of how The Sopranos’ consistently surprised viewers with violence. It follows Ralph Cifaretto (Joe Pantoliano) murdering Tracee (Ariel Kiley) in University (s3:6) and Janice Soprano (Aida Turturro) shooting Richie Aprile (David Proval) in The Knight In White Satin Armor (s2:12). “Years …