Blogs
on August 13, 2025
Prairie has scars on her back and experiences traumatic episodes, but won't burden her adopted parents with her story. Instead, she takes to the internet, finding like-minded friends via the medium of YouTube.
That's right. Forget Marvel. This is the show to watch if you want a rich, existential look at the interconnectedness of all things. The world of the OA is vast and the way it works follows the most unexpected rules.
‘He used to help out the community in Hackney and help to get the boys off the street. That's why he opened up the gym. To get boys to have a safe space to exercise and box. Since he stopped boxing, he has done so much in that area and has written a book about his experiences as well.
Of the six sons reared by their Jamaican and Grenadian parents, Charles-Cook was the most slightly built. Even so, he spent school holidays in his uncle's gym, where Dame Elizabeth Taylor was an unlikely patron until 2011. Any ambitions he harboured of a career in the boxing ring were curtailed by two things. One was his size and the other was the desire to follow in the footsteps of his two older siblings. Football came a good deal easier to all of them.
‘I've adjusted to the Highlands,' he insists. ‘This is my home now and when I go to London that feels like the holiday now. Where it used to feel normal, London actually feels like everything goes at 100mph.
Rebecca Hall makes her directorial debut in magnificent fashion with her adaptation of Nella Larsen's 1929 novel Passing. It tells the story of two light-skinned Black women, one of whom chooses to "pass" as white. Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga embody the duality at the heart of this delicate story, shot in black and white. Gracefully handled, Passing is a tender portrait revealing powerful psychological depths.
'I had to pay for years of childcare - with a mortgage like millions of others. They are utterly selfish to have put you in this position and suggest if you have a good relationship with your son talk it out with him.'
While TCU's first-round rout of Seton Hall was impressive -- the program's first NCAA Tournament victory since coach Jamie Dixon was a starting guard for the Horned Frogs in 1987 -- an even bigger deal comes Sunday night.
Former Strangeways officer reveals the 'first priority' was... Thigh's the limit! Racegoers go all out for the final day of... The 'Mouth of the South' who became the first Watergate... Beary cute! Kate Middleton can't contain her giggles when...
His House is a horror flick that hits close to home. Revealing its supernatural evils through a harrowing human story, it follows Bol and Rial, a refugee couple from Sudan, who struggle to adapt to their new life in an English town. Don't expect straightforward jump scares -- His House plays into the psychological specters of the past, adding even more corridors of torment. A heartrending, powerful piece.
Twitter has repeatedly clashed with Trump since it began challenging his tweets in May.
The president has threatened to change laws on social media after Twitter labelled one of his tweets about postal voting inaccurate and hid a tweet about looting, which Twitter said fomented violence.
He could have used some of his old uncle's muscle when some online numbskulls soured the day he became leading scorer in the Premiership after a goal against Rangers in a 3-3 draw in January. Moments after speaking to journalists, the attacker switched on his phone to find his social media account polluted by multiple messages of racist abuse. Even now he finds it hard to fathom the thinking of the dimwits under investigation by Police Scotland.
But Dixon said he wasn't obsessed with ending the drought prior to Friday's game. He said he was thinking about his parents -- who couldn't make the trip due to illnesses -- and his late sister Maggie, the former Army head coach who tragically died in 2006 at age 28 due to a heart issue.
The OA is difficult to describe, because it sews a handful of different genres into its own ethereal plane. The OA is surreal at times. Yet instead of floating images gently knocking against each other, the sci-fi here is delivered with the grounded assuredness of a Christopher Nolan movie. It moves with the same relentless force.
"I received a DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) takedown order this morning for that video, and a few hours later a suspension letter", Donktum posted website on Locals, another digital content platform.
Somewhere along the way he has even managed to find a surrogate for the five brothers he left behind when he moved to the Scottish Highlands. Before facing Celtic at Parkhead on Saturday, Charles-Cook and his fellow Londoner Joseph Hungbo will spend the hours before the game going through their weekly ritual of psyching each other up. The engine parts driving Ross County's recovery this season, their bond has forged on a slightly surprising rocket fuel.
The fifth and latest film on Angelina Jolie's directing CV turned out to be her best. Based on Cambodian author and human rights activist Loung Ung's memoir, the biographical thriller recounts the horrors Ung suffered as a child under the rule of the deadly Khmer Rouge. With an empathetic lens framing a shocking story from the perspective of a child, First They Killed My Father is a unique war movie made with control and finesse.