Film

Anya Taylor-Joy’s breakout movie gave horror a different kind of female lead

• *The Witch* launched Anya Taylor-Joy’s film career.
• Thomasin’s survival comes through embracing evil.
• The film is free with adverts on Plex.

Anya Taylor-Joy’s breakout role in *The Witch* recast the horror “final girl” as someone who survives by embracing the force threatening her, rather than defeating it. The 2015 film launched Taylor-Joy and director Robert Eggers into wider recognition, and its unsettling ending remains open to readings of either…

‘Enola Holmes’ Star Louis Partridge To Headline & Produce Film ‘One Last Summer’

• Louis Partridge stars in and produces *One Last Summer*.
• Filming wrapped in Tuscany, Italy.
• The story centres on a weekend of relationships and reflection.

Louis Partridge will star in and produce the coming-of-age independent film *One Last Summer*, which has completed filming in Tuscany. The project marks a new producing venture for Partridge and writer-director Misha Citron, who co-founded Pipe Dream Films to make it. Set over a weekend in the Tuscan…

‘The Notebook’ Musical Sets West End Run at Newly Renamed Judi Dench Theatre

• *The Notebook* musical is coming to the West End in 2027.
• It will open at the newly named Judi Dench Theatre.
• Tickets start at £20, with 50,000 priced at £50 or less.

The musical adaptation of *The Notebook* will make its UK premiere at the Judi Dench Theatre in London’s West End, becoming the first production at the newly renamed venue. The run brings the story, first published as a novel 30 years ago, to London audiences in a new…

In 1977, Alfred Hitchcock named the one movie he regretted never making. It was “written specifically” in his contract that he couldn’t

• Universal’s contract barred Hitchcock from making *Mary Rose*.
• He had wanted to adapt the play for decades.
• He named it as a regret in a 1977 interview.

Alfred Hitchcock was barred by his Universal contract from making *Mary Rose*, the supernatural mystery he had wanted to bring to the screen for decades. The case is striking because the director was given broad freedom to choose projects, yet one specific title was explicitly excluded. Hitchcock first…

7 Stephen King Books You Can Read in a Weekend

• King’s shorter books can deliver the pull of his longer epics.
• The article’s examples include *Carrie* and *The Gunslinger*.
• *The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon* centres on a child lost in the woods.

The article highlights seven Stephen King books that readers can finish in a weekend, arguing that his shorter novels and stories can offer the atmosphere, characters and tension of his longer works. It presents the selection as a way into King’s varied writing for readers who are short…

AI healthcare claim, eMudhra exits certificates; Telford restores artillery barrel production

Microsoft touts simulated medical advances as eMudhra leaves SSL and TLS certificates after weak-key reports. A new Telford factory restores UK artillery barrel production, while entertainment brings a Kubrick collection and TV news.

LISA’s ‘Press Play’: All 6 Tracks Ranked

• LISA’s new EP *Press Play* has six tracks.
• The review links its sound and visuals to Tarantino films.
• “V12” is described as more immediately striking than the title track.

LISA has released her six-track EP *Press Play* after a run of high-profile milestones, including becoming the first K-pop soloist to win the MTV Video Music Award for best pop. The article presents the EP as a vivid, film-inspired project, with LISA credited as a songwriter on every…

In 1976, Nick Nolte turned down one of cinema’s most iconic heroes. He said he’d only “play him as a schizophrenic”

• Nolte was considered for Superman in 1976.
• He proposed portraying the hero as schizophrenic.
• Christopher Reeve took the role, which Nolte did not regret.

Nick Nolte says he turned down the chance to play Superman in Richard Donner’s 1978 film after being approached in 1976. He told the filmmakers he would only play the hero as a schizophrenic, a deliberately unsuitable suggestion that helped rule him out. Christopher Reeve was eventually cast…

One of the Greatest WWII Movies of All Time Is Waiting To Be Rediscovered on Streaming

• *A Bridge Too Far* is streaming on Tubi and Pluto.
• The film depicts the failed 1944 Operation Market Garden.
• Its story follows Allied troops, civilians and German soldiers.

Richard Attenborough’s 1977 film *A Bridge Too Far* is now available to stream on Tubi and Pluto. Its portrayal of the Allies’ failed Operation Market Garden gives the war film its distinctive focus: the scale and complexity of military ambition, and the consequences when plans and intelligence fail.…