[ad_1] From The Last of the Mohicans to Collateral, Michael Mann has always been fascinated by a certain kind of masculinity: men who are consummate professionals, with a clenched precision about their work (whether a cop or a safecracker), who are fundamentally alone. His biopic of former race car driver, automotive innovator, and notorious womaniser…
[ad_1] It’s getting late at the Wernham Hogg Christmas party. DJ Keith is playing slow jams. The empties are piling up on the desks. Someone has already crashed out on a sofa. In a corner, David Brent, Gareth Keenan and Tim Canterbury are going round in circles over a riddle about a surgeon. Tim has…
[ad_1] Stand by your controllers: the Steam winter sale is almost here. Gamers will be able to scoop some top titles at a reduced price during the annual sale, which has become a fixture of the gaming calendar. Steam is a video game distribution company owned by Valve – a platform through which PC users…
[ad_1] Overseen by new presenter Kiell Smith-Bynoe, tonight’s Great British Sewing Bee special put a festive spin on its indefatigable formula: four celebrity contestants competing for the favour of judges Esme Young and Patrick Grant, amid lots of Christmassy jokes. “Grab your holly, let’s get jolly!” said Smith-Bynoe, before the camera panned out to reveal…
[ad_1] Christmas is almost here, which means it’s nearly time for the Christmas No 1 to be announced. The prestigious ranking is something of a Christmas tradition, with recent years dominated by charitable endeavours. LadBaby have scooped the top spot for the past five years with singles raising money for the UK’s food bank charity…
[ad_1] Pick of the day: The Great British Sewing Bee: Celebrity Christmas Special 9pm, BBC One There are fewer celebrities handy with a needle and thread than are able to cook and bake – to judge by the paucity of famous faces in this first-ever Sewing Bee celebrity special. Even those who’ve turned up aren’t…
[ad_1] The misogynistic remarks aimed at journalist Ava Evans by Laurence Fox on GB News’s Dan Wootton Tonight show prompted more complaints than any other TV programme in 2023. The list of “TV’s most complained-about moments” published by media watchdog Ofcom showed that the episode, which resulted in Wootton’s suspension and the sacking of Fox,…
[ad_1] Vanishing Act is a new three-part crime drama that has arrived on ITV1 concerning the real-life disappearance of Australian millionaire Melissa Caddick. The series stars Australian actor Kate Atkinson (Wentworth, SeaChange) as Caddick and Jerome Velinksy (Funhouse, The Evil in Us) as Caddick’s husband, Anthony Koletti. The dramatised series is followed by a documentary…
[ad_1] Games Workshop has signed a deal with Amazon to produce TV shows and movies based the Warhammer 40,000 tabletop wargame (Photo: Oli Scarff/ AFP vi Getty) Imagine that, 10 years ago, an elderly great-aunt left you £1,000 in her will, and you thought you’d be sensible and invest it. Sure, you could buy Google…
[ad_1] A question we’ve surely all pondered has finally been answered: if a centaur was to wear a suit, would the horse half wear trousers, or would the human half wear the jacket? What do you mean you’ve never even thought about it? But centaur fashion (the answer is just the jacket, by the way)…
