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HISTORICAL FACTS: 2 | History Defined

Mass Hysteria Cases Through The Years: Cause, Meaning And Is It Happening Again As Rapture 2025 Causes Fear?

These events are usually only recognised after the fact, when no environmental or medical explanation is found.

International Business Times UK

Amazon-Funded Startup Wants To Use AI To Recreate Orson Welles' Lost Film Footage Despite Family Opposition

Artificial intelligence has fueled countless breakthroughs in entertainment, but few projects have sparked as much debate as Fable's newest plan.

Benzinga

Film director’s daughter ‘angry’ at AI company’s proposal to restore father’s film

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The Independent UK

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Orson Welles’ daughter ‘disgusted’ by Amazon-backed AI company’s plan to reconstruct lost film

Showrunner plans to reconstruct 43 minutes of ‘The Magnificent Ambersons’ footage that was destroyed

The Independent UK

AI firm plans to reconstruct lost footage from Orson Welles’ masterpiece The Magnificent Ambersons

Film-making studio Fable has announced it will attempt to recreate the 43 minutes cut from the auteur’s 1942 film using AI

The Guardian - UK

127 Years Later, The Worst Movie of 2025 Butchers a Sci-Fi Literary Classic

Amazon Prime Video scrapes the bottom of the barrel with this baffling, product-stuffed screenlife sci-fi movie.

Inverse

I Like What Prime Video's War Of The Worlds Was Going For, Even If It Fails Miserably

The new War of the Worlds is an homage to the greatest version of the story.

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Prime Video’s latest sci-fi reboot bombs with 0% Rotten Tomatoes score

Ice Cube’s film adaptation of War of the Worlds panned as ‘infomercial for Amazon’

The Independent UK

Prime Video incredibly quietly adds new version of sci-fi classic

Ice Cube stars in War of the Worlds

WhatToWatch

This compact camera shot was inspired by Orson Welles – and proves that Benjamin Franklin was wrong

Here’s why this photograph, with its sensation of psychological disconnection, works –and the compact Leica gear behind it

Digital Camera World

Why film and TV creators will still risk it all for the perfect long take shot

In the second episode of Apple TV’s The Studio (2025–) – a sharp satirical take on contemporary Hollywood – newly-appointed studio head Matt Remick (Seth Rogen) visits the set of one of his company’s film productions.

The Conversation

Is Russell F1 2025's low-key hero so far?

There’s another common denominator beyond Lando Norris on the first two grand prix podiums of 2025: George Russell. He was third in both the Australian and Chinese Grands Prix – and yet, as with Orson Welles in The Third Man, the spotlight has flitted over him but briefly before alighting…

Motorsport

Has Russell's start to F1 2025 been underrated?

Autosport

76 Years Later, The Greatest Film Noir Ever Made Is Getting A Huge Upgrade

'The Third Man' is getting a stunning 4K Blu-ray release. Here's your chance to revisit the noir classic.

Inverse

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The Guardian - AU

Get Shorty: a madcap, loving spoof of the film biz

Starring John Travolta as a loan shark who lands himself in Hollywood, this noirish satire is pure pastiche. Like its lead, it’s a sucker for the movies

The Guardian - UK

Dame Joan Plowright obituary

Stage and screen star who was part of a radical generation of actors responsible for establishing the National Theatre

The Guardian - UK

Joan Plowright, celebrated star of stage and screen, dies aged 95

Actor helped shape British postwar theatre through her performances at the Royal Court, National Theatre and in the West End

The Conversation

Ten films that bend, stretch and play with time, from Citizen Kane to Memento

The festive season can have a strange effect on our perception of time. Days blur together, hours stretch or vanish, and a sense of timelessness sets in. So, what better period to enjoy films that help us to reflect on time itself?

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The Independent UK

12 actors who admitted they hated other actors’ movies

THE LIST: From Golden Age feuds to a regretful Jedi, Kevin E G Perry reflects on a dirty dozen times actors have risked biting the hand that feeds

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: Linford Christie runs for the hills

The athlete swaps the city for quieter climes. Plus: will Eddie Redmayne’s assassin come a cropper as The Day of the Jackal ends? Here’s what to watch this evening

LiveScience

'It's hard not to believe he saw something': Historian Greg Eghigian on how UFOs took over the world

An artist's impression of UFOs appearing over a small town.

The Conversation

The Third Man at 75: how a bombed-out Vienna helped create a gripping post-war thriller

A narrow, dimly lit street, night time, post-war Vienna. American hack novelist Holly Martins (Joseph Cotton) is slightly inebriated. He hears someone shuffle in a dark doorway. The countenance of the concealed man is briefly illuminated by an apartment light. It is a man he had presumed dead: his old…

The Guardian - UK

Box Office Poison by Tim Robey review – Hollywood’s fascinating flops

A hilarious account of film’s most stunning failures takes in hubris, stupidity and an assortment of disastrous animals

The Guardian - UK

The World of Tim Burton review – Johnny Depp’s scissorhands can’t cut through the cobwebs and corpses

The Design Museum, LondonThis world-touring exhibition showcases the kooky, gothy director’s early passions and obsessions – but he’s no Edgar Allan Poe

Marie Claire

The Coolest, Behind-the-Scenes Movie Photos

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