TV presenter and author Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club proved a literary sensation during the Covid-19 pandemic, before its transition to Hollywood Richard Osman(Image: PA) Presenter and podcaster Richard Osman has said that some of the cars featured in The Thursday Murder Club film are not genuine. The 54-year-old …
Read More »‘Dreadful’ 2025 box office bomb quietly added to Netflix that film fans say is ‘awful’
The film contains one of Marvel’s most successful actors in a lead role The film made just over $6 million around the world(Image: Vertical) A ‘dreadful’ 2025 box office bomb has been quietly added to Netflix that film fans say is ‘awful’. It’s been a mixed year for movie studios …
Read More »Bring out your stamps: UK’s Royal Mail celebrates Monty Python
Published on 07/08/2025 – 10:42 GMT+2 ADVERTISEMENT Britain’s Royal Mail has issued stamps celebrating the absurdist comedy of Monty Python… and from all of us here at Euronews Culture, who frequently cut down the mightiest trees in the forest with a herring: it’s a “Ni!” of approval. The 10-stamp series …
Read More »Beetlejuice star announced for Liverpool Comic Con 2025
Fans were thrilled as Comic Con announced its latest guest for 2025 People at Comic Con Liverpool(Image: Liverpool Echo) Comic Con has announced Beetlejuice star Alec Baldwin as its latest guest. Comic Con returns to the Exhibition Centre from Saturday, May 3 to Sunday May 4 next year. Alec Baldwin …
Read More »How Britain was duped into falling for the romance of Auden's 'Night Mail' – The Telegraph
The documentary that built the mystique of the Royal Mail's night-time rail service contains almost as much fiction as fact. Source link
Read More »Royal Mail celebrates Paddington Bear’s 65th birthday with special stamps
A set of special stamps are being issued to celebrate 65 years of Paddington Bear. ADVERTISEMENT The marmalade-loving Peruvian bear will feature on six postal stamps taken from Ivor Wood’s cartoons, which were originally published in the London Evening News in the late 1970s as the character became a star …
Read More »Harry Potter star’s heartfelt new movie filmed in Devon
Eight towns and villages in Devon have starring roles in a new film being released in cinemas this week. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry stars Jim Broadbent and Penelope Wilton, and arrives in local cinemas on April 28. Based on the best-selling book by Rachel Joyce, it tells the …
Read More »what on earth has happened to Royal Mail’s stamps?
There is a once-notable aspect of our culture that has reached a dead end, apparently for reasons of naked cynicism. I refer to the subjects of what are now called by Royal Mail, without humour, our special stamp issues. This absurd programme presents second-rate designs highlighting populist trash in the …
Read More »The Quietus | Features | In Conversation
Joe on his round in Somerset The image of the cheerful British postie, out delivering mail in shorts in all weathers, is something of an anachronism in an age where internet shopping and emails have long since changed the nature of the profession, and given the current state of affairs, …
Read More »Young people are officially more likely to fall for scams
There’s a common misconception that most scam victims are elderly people who are all too eager to reply to emails from mysterious ‘Nigerian princes’ promising them 30 million pounds if they just send over their bank details. But this isn’t the case: research published by Visa in 2021 found that, …
Read More »