CULTURE
How Winston Churchill’s ‘Iron Curtain’ speech launched the Cold War 80 years ago
- By Mainedigitalnews.com
- . March 3, 2026
Churchill reminded people how he had warned in the 1930s against the appeasement of Hitler and Nazi Germany but “no one would listen and one
‘It caused so much upset’: Why Tracey Emin’s messy bed shocked the art world in the ’90s
- By Mainedigitalnews.com
- . February 28, 2026
In 1999, an artwork of a dishevelled divan strewn with condoms and lager cans sparked a media frenzy and turned artist Tracey Emin into a
12 of the best TV shows to watch this March
- By Mainedigitalnews.com
- . February 25, 2026
The Comeback premieres 22 March on HBO and Max in the US Amazon Prime Video(Credit: Amazon Prime Video) 11. Bait Riz Ahmed has made his
11 of the Winter Olympics’ most striking images
- By Mainedigitalnews.com
- . February 22, 2026
7. Mass and motion Getty Images Transformed by a photographer’s lens into smudgy speed lines accelerating behind the carefully calibrated push of her polished curling
Why critics scorned Beryl Cook’s ‘saucy’ paintings
- By Mainedigitalnews.com
- . February 19, 2026
Jolly, kitsch and bawdy, Beryl Cook’s paintings were loved by the British public but derided by the art establishment. One hundred years after her birth,
A moving, tragic biopic of a tortured jazz great ★★★★☆
- By Mainedigitalnews.com
- . February 16, 2026
Bill Evans was a boundary-breaking US pianist who contended with multiple personal tragedies, and a serious drug problem. This new drama about him will draw
The Addams Family to St Elmo’s Fire: 12 of the best alternative romantic films
- By Mainedigitalnews.com
- . February 13, 2026
Alamy Julie & Julia (2009) Nora Ephron wrote When Harry Met Sally and she wrote and directed Sleepless in Seattle, so you might not think
This bold reinvention of Emily Brontë’s novel is ‘sexy, dramatic and swoonily romantic’
- By Mainedigitalnews.com
- . February 10, 2026
Robbie turns up in the first of many bright red-and-white dresses, and her performance is magnificent, making Cathy wild and selfish but with a conscience,
How Wuthering Heights became this year’s most divisive film
- By Mainedigitalnews.com
- . February 7, 2026
In the trailer, Robbie is seen doing some highly suggestive breadmaking, her cheeks flushed and her bodice heaving, as she remembers Elordi’s naked torso. Then
Why ‘masterpiece’ Wuthering Heights is so misunderstood
- By Mainedigitalnews.com
- . February 4, 2026
Heathcliff lives a life of torment and uncontainable grief, but inflicts that suffering on everyone around him and feels no remorse in doing so. By