Culture
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The faux-historic mansions dividing opinion
Why grand country houses built to look like they’re centuries old are in demand Source link
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Why a new TV version of horror classic Carrie is already annoying people
Flanagan’s new version, which is set in the present day and is being promoted with the tag line, “If you…
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Ethan Hawke on his role in tense 2001 drama Tape
Shot in six days using handheld digital-video cameras, the 86-minute film stars Hawke, his then wife Uma Thurman and his…
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Tom Cruise takes the ‘biggest risk of his career’ in this ‘love-it-or-hate-it’ folly ★★★★☆
The first way in which it departs from Cruise’s recent work is that his character, Digger Rockwell, isn’t an athletic,…
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The heroic US lawyer who put Nazi death squad members on trial at Nuremberg
“And in order to really understand how a civilised country like Germany could commit and tolerate the type of atrocities…
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How controversial 2000s paedophile-hunting show To Catch a Predator rocked US TV
“Why you see the issue of paedophilia, child predation and child trafficking [become] such an issue in politics is because…
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12 of the best films to watch this October
From Verity and Digger to Sense and Sensibility Source link
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Four things Jane Austen adaptations get wrong
As a new Sense and Sensibility hits cinemas, experts share the common mistakes Source link
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Eight homes for wildlife around the world
From a bat refuge in the UK countryside to a multi-species home in the Catskills Source link
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JRR Tolkien on ‘the most tragic moment’ in The Lord of the Rings
“One of the cardinal things in The Hobbit is one of the few adventures I ever went through in my…
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