‘My parents didn’t talk about the past’: how director Caroline Huppert recovered her family’s wartime secrets

Memoir tells how the Jewish and Catholic parents of actor Isabelle and Caroline Huppert fell in love amid the rise of the Nazis. She explains why she wanted her ‘children’s children’ to know the story ...

The 25 best historical films of all time – and the five worst

From Barry Lyndon to Cabaret, we rank cinema’s greatest journeys into the past (and its most overrated misfires) ...

The most covered songs of all time, according to data

Stacker compiled a list of data from WhoSampled.com to discover what the most covered songs of all time were, across all ...
The National

The story of Neil Gunn – Scotland's unknown literature great

I’VE been writing over the last few weeks about MacDiarmid in Shetland and the exhibition currently running at the museum in Lerwick, and ...

After 40 Years, I Watched the First Marvel Movie Ever (And It Was Even Weirder Than I Expected)

Long before Iron Man kicked off the MCU, there was a bizarre 1986 Marvel movie that is like nothing you've ever seen.