The enduring wartime spirit that powers classic Christmas songs: Eighty years ago this week, Judy Garland walked into an MGM studio and recorded Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas for the first time. It was written for the musical Meet Me in St Louis (1944), only part of which is set at Christmas – but …
Castlevania: how the video game was inspired by classic Dracula horror films: If you’re one of the talented few who have completed Konami’s 1986 gothic horror action-adventure game Castlevania then you’ve seen the game’s unusual closing credits. Instead of a list of the names of people who worked on the game, it is instead an …
The Nun II successfully subverts the classic exorcism movie – a priest explains how: Warning: contains minor spoilers for The Nun II. The Nun II is an arresting piece of storytelling which satisfies and subverts audience expectations in equal measure. On one level, it is an extremely watchable piece of action horror, comfortably divorced from …
Blackadder at 40: the difficult birth of a classic TV comedy: As part of this year’s 40th anniversary celebrations of Blackadder, the classic historical BBC comedy series, the pilot episode from 1982 aired for the first time in years on Gold. It’s been hitherto kept under wraps, never broadcast or released on DVD. Why? It’s …
Greta Gerwig’s Barbie movie is a ‘feminist bimbo’ classic – and no, that’s not an oxymoron: The following article contains spoilers for Barbie. For some, Barbie is the ultimate “girlboss” – she’s glamourous, successful and owns her own DreamHouse. For others, Barbie represents an outdated female stereotype – a “blonde bimbo girl in a fantasy …
How classic psychology warped our view of human nature as cruel and selfish – but new research is more hopeful: DorSteffen/Shutterstock There are a number of classic experiments and theories that every psychology student learns about, but more recent research has questioned their findings so that psychologists today are reevaluating human nature. One example is …
The Wicker Man at 50: how the strange 1970s British film became a cult classic: It tops the poll of the 50 greatest British horror films, according to readers of Horrified Magazine, while the Guardian pitches it at number four in its list of the 25 greatest horror films. David Bartholomew of Cinefantastique magazine described …
‘Cracking down’ on antisocial behaviour is a classic pre-election strategy – but this government owes young people better: For a government that is committed to “levelling up”, Rishi Sunak’s administration seems to have taken a major shift towards “cracking down”. A new action plan on antisocial behaviour has certainly ratcheted-up the rhetoric. Perpetrators will face …
Tunisia’s president is targeting migrants to divert attention from serious domestic problems – a classic tactic: Thousands in Tunis protest soaring prices, corruption and denounced recent comments by the Tunisian president against sub-Saharan migrants. EPA/Mohamed Messara Tunisia’s president Kais Saied recently called for urgent measures against illegal immigration of sub-Saharan African nationals. He said they …
The Muppet Christmas Carol turns 30: how the film became a cult classic: “Cult” is often indiscriminately applied to film and television. In Cult Movies (1981), film critic Danny Peary argued that it should be reserved for “special films which for one reason or another have been taken to heart by segments of the movie …
A Christmas Carol: with new movie Spirited, the Dickens classic continues to haunt us: Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell star in the latest adaptation of A Christmas Carol, Spirited. Apple TV+ There’s something about A Christmas Carol that screams: remake me! Some count as many as 100 versions of the Charles Dickens story spanning film, …
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The King’s Horseman, Nigeria’s most famous play, is now a Netflix movie: what makes it a classic: Odunlade Adekola stars in Elesin Oba, The King's Horseman. EbonyLife Media/Toronto International Film Festival/Netflix Elesin Oba, the King’s Horseman is a new movie coming to Netflix. It is based on Nigeria’s most famous play, Death and the King’s …
NoViolet Bulawayo’s new novel is an instant Zimbabwean classic: Noviolet Bulawayo, Zimbabwean writer. Leonardo Cendamo/Getty Images In Zimbabwean author NoViolet Bulawayo’s new novel Glory – longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022 – animals take on human characteristics. Through this she explores what happens when an authoritarian regime implodes, using characters who are horses, pigs, dogs, …
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Ulysses at 100 – start here if you want to read this modernist classic: Ulysses is often written off as inaccessible but the epic is much more readable than most assume. mage Professionals GmbH/Alamy James Joyce’s Ulysses was first published 100 years ago. For a century, it has been seen as an intimidating read, but …