ADVERTISEMENT Tim and Millie are very much in love. Still, like many couples, they find themselves at a crossroads. Having been together for a decade and still smitten about each other, there are some cracks starting to show beneath the lovey-dovey surface. Something doesn’t quite stick: they haven’t been intimate in months and the unemployed
ADVERTISEMENT While it was highly anticipated, Zach Cregger’s Weapons has become the breakout hit of the summer no one expected. Not only did the American filmmaker’s sophomore horror film top the box office during its debut weekend and has raked in a reported $92 million internationally at the time of writing (on a budget of $38
ADVERTISEMENT It’s just one word – but two leading Holocaust historians say it warps history. The Imperial War Museum (IWM) in London has refused to alter an information panel in its Holocaust Galleries after two leading historians criticised its wording as historically inaccurate. Describing the Nazi's 1935 Nuremberg race laws, the disputed caption reads: “Under
ADVERTISEMENT A new exhibition at Gagosian in London will showcase Paul McCartney’s candid photographs of the Beatles during their meteoric rise in the early 1960s. Titled "Rearview Mirror: Liverpool–London–Paris", the show opens on 28 August and offers an unusually intimate look at the band’s early days – through the eyes of McCartney himself. Shot between
ADVERTISEMENT Hello, and welcome back for a fresh serving of cultural recommendations that'll (hopefully) have you drooling like a xenomorph. Indeed, Alien: Earth crash lands on small screens this week, taking us back to the origins of face hugger-to-human contact. Meanwhile,Together hits cinemas, utilising the concept of codependency for some sick supernatural body horror nightmares.
ADVERTISEMENT The most unbelievable thing about 2024's A Quiet Place: Day One was not its premise of world-invading ultrasonic-hearing aliens, but rather that a cat in such a situation wouldn’t have everyone within its vicinity immediately killed by tapping a delicately balanced glass off a table. Cats are - and I say this with nothing
ADVERTISEMENT From the get-go, writer-director Zach Cregger aims to get under your skin. A child narrator sets up the “true story,” in which “a lot of people die in a lot of really weird ways.” The unseen youth is not wrong. Before we get to those deaths, we’re presented with Weapon’s central mystery through enduring imagery:
ADVERTISEMENT Tudor Lakatos is fighting discrimination against the Roma people, one Elvis Presley song at a time – and doing it in rhinestones, a quiff, and oversized sunglasses. Strutting across restaurant stages from Bucharest to remote villages, the 58-year-old schoolteacher doesn't call himself an Elvis impersonator. No, Lakatos says he channels the King – using
ADVERTISEMENT Scientists have unearthed the remains of a heavily armoured dinosaur, complete with rib spikes, a bony neck collar and a tail that may have doubled as a weapon. The fossil, discovered in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains, dates back 165 million years and belongs to a newly identified species of ankylosaur called Spicomellus. And this wasn’t
ADVERTISEMENT Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum, home to the world’s largest collection of works by Vincent van Gogh, has issued an extraordinary warning: without fresh government funding, it may be forced to shut its doors. The museum says a shortfall in state support threatens a €104m renovation plan - and with it the safety of the