At an unknown point in the near future, a woman is giving birth. As her contractions start, her home in London is flooded and, as…
View More ‘Her waters break and the flood comes’: author behind new Jodie Comer film on motherhood in an apocalyptic LondonTag: Film
Anchorman director to sell Sex Panther prop in climate fund auction
It may smell like pure gasoline, but it could now help Just Stop Oil. The director of Anchorman is selling the film’s original Sex Panther…
View More Anchorman director to sell Sex Panther prop in climate fund auctionOrgasm gap: how Hollywood and science neglected female pleasure
Hollywood sex scenes tend to follow a predictable formula: hot, passionate and rarely anything short of euphoric. So the basis of Emma Thompson’s new film,…
View More Orgasm gap: how Hollywood and science neglected female pleasureForce pension funds to align with net zero goal, says Richard Curtis
Pension funds should face legal obligations to bring their investments in line with the net zero greenhouse gas emissions goal, the film-maker Richard Curtis has…
View More Force pension funds to align with net zero goal, says Richard Curtis‘It parodies our inaction’: Don’t Look Up, an allegory of the climate crisis, lauded by activists
Don’t Look Up, the latest celluloid offering from the writer-director Adam McKay, has become Netflix’s top film globally despite dividing critics and viewers. The film,…
View More ‘It parodies our inaction’: Don’t Look Up, an allegory of the climate crisis, lauded by activistsJane Fonda on the climate fight: ‘The cure for despair is action’
The first time I was ever arrested, I was picked up for smuggling drugs into the US from Canada. They were vitamin pills, but that…
View More Jane Fonda on the climate fight: ‘The cure for despair is action’‘Stranger than anything dreamed up by sci-fi’: will we ever understand black holes?
So, what would it feel like to fall into a black hole? “Well, at the moment you crossed the horizon, you wouldn’t feel anything –…
View More ‘Stranger than anything dreamed up by sci-fi’: will we ever understand black holes?Space race 2: Russian actor bound for ISS in same month as Tom Cruise
The space race appears set for a relaunch following the news that Russia is to send an actor and director to the International Space Station…
View More Space race 2: Russian actor bound for ISS in same month as Tom CruiseHow to save the planet? Richard Curtis says it involves pensions, actually
His romcom Love Actually is frequently voted the nation’s favourite Christmas film but Richard Curtis’s latest festive offering aims to shock viewers into action, as…
View More How to save the planet? Richard Curtis says it involves pensions, actually