The real-life California scandal that inspired the iconic Los Angeles thriller
Alamy Now 50 years old, Chinatown is one of the all-time great crime films – and that’s partly because of a potent story based on
Why the British are obsessed with the Cotswolds
Getty Images Equestrian events – such as the one shown here at Blenheim Palace – are central to certain sections of Cotswold society (Credit: Getty
The film that shows women’s periods are still a taboo
Akanga Film Productions A Malay coming-of-age film about a girl who becomes a monster after her first period has been censored in its home country.
Pixar sequel could be this summer’s best Hollywood entertainment
Disney Inside Out 2 “glimmers with diamond-hard truths about the complex business of being a human” – and has one of the year’s best punchlines.
The world’s first global sporting celebrity
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How Saving Private Ryan’s D-Day sequence changed the way we see war
Alamy (Credit: Alamy) Today marks 80 years since the momentous World War Two Allied operation – and back in 1998, Steven Spielberg’s brutally immersive depiction
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IWM (B 5067 (Credit: IWM (B 5067)) Eighty years ago on 6 June, D-Day, the largest land, air and naval operation in history was unleashed
The radical 1970s roots of wellness
Alamy The ‘wellness’ boom of the 1970s was encapsulated, albeit cynically, in Don Draper’s spiritual retreat at the very end of Mad Men (Credit: Alamy)
Eight of the best films of 2024 so far
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Courtesy Cannes Film Festival US director Sean Baker’s latest film exploring the world of sex work has been greeted rapturously at the Cannes Film Festival