Just as satire films and war films summed up his predecessors' time in office, one major blockbuster defined the Biden era.

Kubrick was keen that the film stay as satire rather than farce – hence excising a final scene in which the War Room descends into a pie fight – but on stage there is no choice. As a play ...

Read our review of Dr Strangelove, adapted from Stanley Kubrick's film by Armando Iannucci and Sean Foley, now in performances at the Noël Coward Theatre to 25 January 2025. Nuclear annihilation might ...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s deeply disturbing 1847 poem about a woman escaping slavery and killing her child was written to shock its intended white female readership to the abolitionist cause. Mark ...

Well-man skeleton (Åge Hojem NTNU Vitenskapsmuseet) The elusive medieval man’s bones were first found in the well at Sverresborg Castle, but researchers lacked the tools at the time to do much ...

Released in 1967 during the Golden Age of the French New Wave, Weekend, a class satire set against a collapsed society, shows how the end of the world can feel right around the corner. When Jean ...

Dharmesh Patel, at home with Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) productions across the UK, is taking on a new challenge as Lincoln – a character caught in a series of dilemmas in the timeless tale ...

'We are not asking for your resignation. We are asking you to assume your rightful place as an ethereal lodestar in the hopes and dreams of your people' You can save this article by registering ...

A study of a remarkable medieval skeleton found in a well at a castle in Norway has helped to corroborate events detailed in an 800-year-old Norse saga. Michael Martin, one of the authors of the ...

The Sverris saga, a quasi-fictional historical account from the end of the 12th century CE, recaps the reign of the medieval Norwegian king Sverre Sigurdsson. One of the best-known passages ...

A new analysis indicates the human remains found in a well in Norway are from a 1197 raid described in a royal history. A new scientific examination of 800-year-old human remains in Norway ...