Film fans might currently not be able to enjoy big screen blockbusters during lockdown but they’re certain about which movie legend would help make social isolation a bit more bearable.
Cinemagoers from the South-west would choose Dwayne Johnson, aka The Rock, as their favourite lockdown partner, according to a study by Showcase Cinemas.
Freya Lewis keeps a MAC lipstick in the centre of her make-up drawer, used by her best friend Nell Jones during the Ariana Grande concert at Manchester Arena nearly three years ago.
It was inside the tan bag Freya, then 14, was carrying when the terrorist bomb which killed 22 people went off metres from where she was standing.
Arm in arm, the friends had left the concert on...
Now is the perfect time to get lost in a classic movie.
Whether it’s glittering costumes or Nineties minimalism, film often uses fashion to dazzle – or even give inspiration for your own wardrobe.
When it comes to fashion, some films are a cut above the rest – where the style or certain characters have become iconic for a reason. Here are some of the most fashionable movies...
At 3pm on May 8, 1945, Winston Churchill sat in front of a microphone in No. 10 Downing Street, and declared in typically gruff tones that the war against Nazi Germany had been won.
A week after Hitler had taken his own life in a bunker beneath Berlin, the remnants of the regime under Grand Admiral Dönitz had surrendered, and the Third Reich was officially no more.
With lockdown only set to continue, bolster yourself with a few good reads…
Fiction
1. Redhead By The Side Of The Road by Anne Tyler (Chatto & Windus, £14.99)
Pulitzer prize winner Anne Tyler’s latest novel focuses on “what goes through the mind of a man like Micah Mortimer”. Micah, an unabashed lover of routine, runs his own one-man IT business helping mostly-...
Even if you’re not an avid reader, you will probably have encountered thriller-writer Harlan Coben’s work.
Jumping seamlessly from more than 30 bestselling novels to a string of top-notch original dramas – he’s the mastermind behind recent Netflix series The Stranger and Safe – he’s worth an estimated $25 million, with more than 70 million books in print and a lucrative contract with...
Alex Green speaks to veteran rocker Francis Rossi about fame, family life and his greatest regrets.
“I’ve become known as the bloke that spills the beans,” whispers Francis Rossi before emitting a sharp cackle.
Status Quo’s guitarist and songwriter is explaining the premise behind his latest venture – a tell-all tour aptly titled I Talk Too Much. He, of course, is best known...
As a former editor I can assure you that adverting in printed newspapers is a diminishing return. Why?
Latest statistics show that national newspaper sales have slumped by two thirds in 20 years UK national newspaper sales slump by two-thirds in 20 years amid digital disruption .
And, unlike digital advertising, it is very difficult to measure your return on investment....
Bestselling Irish novelist Marian Keyes, 56 – who has brought us love, laughter and all matters of the heart in her many novels, including Watermelon, Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married, This Charming Man and The Break – has travelled the world on book tours, charity events and speaking engagements.
Her latest novel Grown Ups follows the trials and tribulations of an extended and...
