Category: 5. Entertainment

Holly should be about 7 or 8 in season five, based on the show’s canonical timeline. Instead, she is portrayed by 14-year-old Nell Fisher.

Holly was presumably recast to an older age so she could be more involved in…

What does the familiar film tagline “based on a true story” really mean? Leaving aside questions of historical fidelity versus poetic license, what does an audience get from the assurance that a given story “truly happened”?

At…

20. Deep Rising (1998)

Stephen Sommers’ sci-fi horror pulp follows a bunch of scene-stealing character actors playing mercenaries hired to destroy the cruise ship Argonautica for insurance purposes. But a giant mutant octopus has got there…

When Toy Story was released in theaters on November 22, 1995, it not only won over audiences around the world, but it put Pixar Animation Studios on the map. As the first fully computer-animated feature film, it was considered a…

It’s easy to forget that true wellbeing doesn’t just play out on your yoga mat or on your plate, but also in your relationships. In the same way that physical and mental fitness builds a healthy body, social fitness builds a healthy…

A Roman mosaic uncovered in what was the capital of Roman Britain is to go on display for the first time in 1,800 years.

It was discovered in the 1980s in Colchester when builders were working on a shopping centre. It was fully revealed outside a…

Tonight’s South Park is something of a breather in what has been their most story-driven season (or seasons, as it turned out) ever. There is some advancement to the overriding plot of Donald Trump attempting to kill the unborn baby he’s…

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In the early 1600s four Danish women were condemned to death as part of an alleged “society of witches in North…

Douglas Adams’s sci-fi comedy about Earth’s destruction and Arthur Dent’s intergalactic adventures has become a stratospheric enterprise since the original radio series in 1978. That spawned six books, a TV series, a film, comics, stage…