12. The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the ReapingWith or without Jennifer Lawrence's heroic archer, Katniss Everdeen, audiences can't get their fill of The Hunger Games, so 2023's The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is being followed by another prequel adapted from...
The Beauty premieres 21 January on Hulu in the US and 22 January on Disney+ in the UKApple TV11. ShrinkingWith Harrison Ford as its droll standout, this sophisticated comedy has one of the best ensemble casts on television, along with...
The blockbuster based on the brick-building video game came top at the US box office – and, with their "chicken-jockey" chaos, its colourful screenings pointed to the future of cinema.Oppenheimer is a cerebral drama with Cillian Murphy as the scientist...
Getty ImagesVirginia Giuffre's powerful posthumous autobiography Nobody's Girl detailed her sexual abuse at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein and his circle (Credit: Getty Images)But 2025 was also a year when memoirs attracted attention for the wrong reasons. Journalist Olivia Nuzzi's...
AlamyOrkney's Maeshowe tomb is a burial cairn created around 2800BC that conceals a stone-clad sepulchre (Credit: Alamy)We will probably never know the specific beliefs and rituals that inspired Maeshowe tomb. But it's nonetheless possible to understand the enormous significance of...
Immersive shows recreating the ocean liner's fateful voyage are attracting audiences globally. But are they valuable historical experiences, or cynically turning tragedy into entertainment?The grand interior rooms of the Titanic are slowly filling up with water. Videos projected on to...
An audacious planIn May 1951, the Glasgow University students – Ian Hamilton, Kay Matheson, Gavin Vernon and Alan Stuart – confessed all in a BBC radio interview about just what had happened that night. It all began late on Christmas...
Stag Dance by Torrey PetersThe follow-up to Torrey Peters' critically acclaimed debut Detransition, Baby is a collection of tales, each with an intriguing premise, ranging in genre from romantic to dystopian to historical. In The Masker, a young party-goer on...
Tom Brook was the first on the scene when the BBC reported on John Lennon's death, later interviewing his widow, Yoko Ono, and their young son. Today, he reconnects with Sean Ono Lennon on his parents' legacy – and giving...
Born just a year apart (Turner in sooty London in 1775, Constable in a serene Suffolk village in 1776), the two were, from the first, "fire and water" opposites, as another reviewer in 1831 would describe them. Turner, whose father...
