How The Odyssey is already gunning to be 2026’s biggest film
Marketing campaigns for summer blockbusters have traditionally kicked in around six months before release. But one film not playing by these rules is Christopher Nolan’s
Intimate images of ‘the real Hotel California’
When, in 1969, the duo opened a sister studio in LA (and another in Sausalito in 1972), they supercharged the original concept, creating a sort
What is the controversial ‘princess treatment’ and why is Gen Z obsessed with it?
With a new Downton Abbey film coming this autumn, and the heroine of Lena Dunham’s new Netflix series, Too Much, fantasising about being courted by
‘It makes me feel strong’: Burlesque is back
Before we get lost in such layered timelines, here’s a brief history. Burlesque’s origins are in Victorian Britain: it grew out of music hall and
The woman who redefined chimps – and human beings
In 1986, Jane Goodall told the BBC how similar chimps and humans really are Source link
What film and TV get wrong about London
Of course, London has been portrayed in different ways throughout cinema history, including its bombed-out ruins after World War Two, in films such as 1949’s
Why Alice Cooper saved the Hollywood sign
The exact date the monument went up is contested, but its official centenary was celebrated on 13 July 2023, making it 102 years old this
How Superman started out as a radical rebel
All the same, few comic characters were as militant as Superman. In one early issue, he demolishes a row of slum homes in order to
The inside story of the wildest shoot in film history
The harsh conditions were totally alien to most people there. “The crew complained a lot about the heat, humidity, hotel rooms, bugs, mosquitoes,” he says.
The forgotten story behind the most famous side-eye in Hollywood history
Alamy One of show business’s most glamorous – and notorious – images, there’s more to this 1957 snapshot of Sophia Loren and Jayne Mansfield than