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Robert Eggers’ blood-soaked Viking epic is a widescreen rallying cry for cinema in the age of streaming Bored of identikit blockbusters and flatpack franchises which always seem to end with something smashing something else amid an ocean of CGI? Thank Odin, then, for Robert Eggers and his mad, brilliant, violent, hypnotic, trippy Viking opus. And thank the heroic people who …

The world-famous landmark’s operators are bidding to have its planning permission extended An iconic part of London’s skyline could disappear for ever in a few years. The London Eye, which has become as much a part of the capital’s furniture as M&M World and adult ballpits, could be removed by 2028. The Millennium Wheel, as it was originally known, opened on December 31 1999. …

Qixi Festival – also known as the Double Seventh Festival, or Chinese Valentine’s Day – falls annually on the seventh day of the seventh month on the lunar calendar, and for this year that day falls on August 4. While it’s not as commonly celebrated nowadays, the Qixi Festival has been observed for over 2,000 years and it dates back …

Soho is the home of London’s main gay and LGBTQ scene and remains most visitors’ first port of call, whether for drag nights or mingling. It’s centred around Old Compton Street, where you can spend a raucous night at the enduringly popular G-A-Y bar or down unpretentious drinks at pubs like The Admiral Duncan. Here’s our pick of the best gay bars and …

Love them, hate them, or just accept them as a sort of immutable fact of life, Christmas songs are a thing, and as December 25 gets inexorably closer and closer they’re a thing that becomes increasingly inescapable. And although there’s been a fair amount of disposable novelty rubbish written over the years, the reality is that a lot of Christmas songs are bangers. There …

Breakups songs don’t fit one simple pattern, because breakups don’t fit one simple pattern. Okay, maybe they fit three or four simple patterns, but we’re talking some pretty radical extremes of feeling: are you happy, are you sad? Did you dump or were you dumped? Do you want them back or do you never want to see them again?  Breakup …

Looking for a bit of a reboot? Or just fancy a bit of well-deserved pampering somewhere warm, lush and full of deferential attendants bringing you nice things? Course you do. Nothing makes you feel better than beauty treatments, detoxes and a spell in a sauna or hot tub. We’ve rounded up the very best spas in London right now – from …

Sarah Hyland is furiously trending on the internet, don’t worry, as it is for all good reasons. Sarah left her fans teary-eyed when she announced her marriage to her long-time love, Wells Adams. She got married on Saturday, 22 August, and looked every bit gorgeous to people all over the world. Their dreamy marriage ceremony was no short than a …

To all the K-drama lovers who have been craving for more, this new year season, we come bearing good news in the form of a carefully curated list of the top hand-selected K-dramas that are all set to stream on Netflix in 2023. Right from classic romance to a seat-gripping zombie drama, we have made sure the list has something …

Adam Sandler is an actor who has given us some movies that go straight into that awful territory but in the right project. He is someone who can convey a lot without words. He has been relevant for the longest time. He gave us some amazing rom-com but at some time some movies we regret investing our time in. Here …