- December 23, 2024
How Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life became a Christmas classic
Alamy Released in 1946, Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life was derided as an “over-sentimental” Christmas yarn. In History looks
12 of the most striking images of 2024
Getty Images (Credit: Getty Images) From the awe-inspiring photo of a surfer in Tahiti to the iconic shot of US
How LGBTQ stories got real in 2024
Netflix/ Film4/ A24/ BBC (Credit: Netflix/ FIlm4/ A24/ BBC) From Queer to Baby Reindeer and Will & Harper, LGBTQ representation
The blistering drama showing the US’s racist past from a new, first-person perspective
L Kasimu Harris (Credit: L Kasimu Harris) The Oscar-tipped film by RaMell Ross adapts Colson Whitehead’s novel about two boys
How ultra-traditional tweed found a new fanbase
Getty Images (Credit: Getty Images) Once synonymous with the aristocracy, the thoroughly British winter favourite is now in demand more
How Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour became a near-religious experience
Getty Images (Credit: Getty Images) Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, a “cultural juggernaut” remarkable for both its scale and intimacy, comes
Why we’re ‘living in the golden age of the doppelganger’
Getty Images (Credit: Getty Images) It’s been a year of lookalikes – but the lure of the “second self” goes
How the fall of Pyongyang brought the world to the brink of crisis
Getty Images In December 1950, a BBC cameraman captured the fall of Pyongyang, a defining moment in the Korean War.
12 of the best films to watch this December
Searchlight Pictures From a steamy age-gap thriller starring Nicole Kidman to a Bob Dylan biopic featuring Timothée Chalamet, these are
Nine of the best TV shows to watch in December
Netflix (Credit: Netflix) From the small-screen adaptation of a classic novel to the return of the phenomenon that is Squid