Just a reminder for Christmas this year... if your birth year starts with a 19, wrap your presents on a table and not the floor...

Here is Roger Ebert's first paragraph of his review for "The Mummy" and it is why he was the greatest film critic to ever live

The first episode of The Clangers was originally broadcast on this day in 1969.

12 Monkeys (1995) is one of the best time-travel films ever made. Gilliam built it as a true closed loop inspired by La Jetée, so every twist feels inevitable, and on rewatch you see how tightly the whole loop was engineered from the start.

I’m at a loss for words. It all happened far too suddenly. Because of the strike, we weren’t able to shoot “OD” for a long time, and we were forced to reschedule to next year. Even during that time, Udo and I exchanged emails frequently. We stayed in close contact. When we met in

Of the 270-plus books I’ve read so far this year, these four (and various Icelandic sagas) are probably my favorites:

Incredible letter in The Times and The Sunday Times

Happy Birthday, Nick Park! As the mastermind behind Wallace and Gromit, he truly deserves to be Sir Nick by now. This chase from The Wrong Trousers (1993) surpasses most blockbuster action scenes, and Feathers McGraw is still terrifying.

Simply stupendous

A map of that there London showing fictional characters, and where they're from. Mr Benn - Putney - bottom left. I think this is Fabulous!!

Statement forwarded to ScotNews by Leanne Tervit #Holyrood2026 "My name is Leanne Tervit. I’m a full-time unpaid carer who grew up in Woodmill Crescent, Dunfermline. I donated a kidney to save my mum, who has had three transplants, and I live on £540 a month in Universal

Deep in ancient Mesopotamia, Babylonian scholars were doing geometry with a level of precision that still feels startling today. Around 1770 BCE, they inscribed a tablet known as IM 67118 with a geometric challenge: find the side lengths of a rectangle when you already know its

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

Mythological reptiles

When Emily Wilson published her translation of The Odyssey, it quietly but decisively shifted how many readers understood one of the foundations of Western literature. For centuries, English versions of the poem had been shaped by male translators who often filtered Homer’s Greek

The UK confirmed its plan to end private messaging. Ofcom is now being handed power to scan encrypted chats under the Online Safety Act. They’re calling it “client-side scanning.” What it means: every message on your phone gets checked before it’s encrypted. This isn’t safety.

Run by a 43-person team now It was created in 2010 by Marco Grossi, a Barcelona-based design student. simply because he needed an easy way to cut and paste pages in a PDF for a school project. He built it himself and ran the site alone from home for seven years The company

I love this woman. Claudia Riegler of Austria, 52, became the oldest woman to compete in a Winter Olympics. This is her fifth consecutive Games. She competed in the women’s parallel giant slalom, which is snowboard racing head-to-head. Yesterday morning, she beat out sixteen

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I have been with Barclays Bank since 1962. Yes, 1962. This week they turned me down for a short-term £1500 overdraft to tide me over while I am writing an exclusive book on World Cup 1966, with a foreword by Sir Geoff Hurst. I was the only reporter to get into the winning England