Madagascar has submitted Luck Razanajaona’s Disco Afrika: A Malagasy Story to the Best International Feature Film category at the 98th Academy Awards, as its first ever Oscar entry.
News of the submission comes amid political turbulence…

Madagascar has submitted Luck Razanajaona’s Disco Afrika: A Malagasy Story to the Best International Feature Film category at the 98th Academy Awards, as its first ever Oscar entry.
News of the submission comes amid political turbulence…

A disability charity supporting people with additional needs into self-employment says the project will just “grow and grow”.
SAMEE, which stands…

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Julia Jackman has followed Bonus Track with this queer fantasy-fable that has a streak of earnestness to go with the romantasy energy and gorgeous costumes from designer Susie Coulthard. It’s adapted by Jackman from Isabel Greenberg’s 2016…

On the Death of Dr Robert Levet by Samuel Johnson
Condemned to Hope’s delusive mine
As on we toil from day to day,
By sudden blast or slow decline,
Our social comforts drop away.
Well tried through many a varying year,
See Levet to the grave…

Published: 12:52 pm, 20 October 2025

When the Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho was writing his latest movie, in 2021, he felt shame about the situation in his homeland as it took “a sharp turn to the right” under then president Jair Bolsonaro. “Well-informed friends…

Benedict Cumberbatch stars in The Thing With Feathers, writer-director Dylan Southern’s big-screen adaptation of Max Porter’s award-winning Grief Is the Thing With Feathers, which just screened at the 69th edition of the BFI London Film…

Intro. [Recording date: September 29, 2025.]
Russ Roberts: Today is September 29th, 2025, and my guest is author, podcaster, journalist Stephen Dubner. He is the author, with economist Steven Levitt, of Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores…