Disney’s Lilo and Stitch remake and Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible outing have opened as two of the biggest films of year released last week. That made it the second highest opening of 2025 so far after A Minecraft movie. Misson Impossible- The Final Reckoning, the eight film in the franchise, also proved a hit with $190m ( £140m) in ticket sales. Cruise playing agent Ethan Hunt since 1996, and seemingly confirmed The Final Reckoning would be the last instalment. Lilo and Stitch, which revisits the 2002 animated family favourite, has exceeded expectations with taking of $341m ( £252m) around the … Continue reading Disney’s Lilo and Stitch record

McLaren’s Lando Norris won the Monaco Grand Prix for the time controlling the race from start to finish. Norris craftly navigated the potential pitfalls of a new rule requiring driver to us three sets of tyres during the race to lead throughout and beat Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc for the Briton’s second victory of the season.  McLaren’s Oscar Piastri took third , with Red Bull’s Max Verstappen  fourth and Lewis Hamilton’s Ferrari in the fifth. Norris negotiated both pit-stop periods, starting on medium tyre followed by two stints on the hard, splitting the race more or less into thirds. Verstappen went into the … Continue reading Norris wins Incredible Monaco Grand Prix

Brazilian-born, Sebastião Salgado, one of the world’s greatest documentary photo-journalist has died at the age of 81. His amazing vivd black and white images of hardship, conflict and natural beauty, captured in 130 countries over 55 years, chronicling major global events such as the Rwanda genocide in 1994, burning oilfields at the end of the Gulf War in 1991, and the famine in Sahel region of Africa in 1984. Instituo Terra, the environmental organisation he founded with his wife Leila Wanick Salgado, said in a statement “ His lens revealed the world and its contradictions, his life, the power of transformative … Continue reading Sebastião Salgado, photo-journalist dies at 81

Lydia Millet, with a masters degree in environmental policy, staff writer for non-profit Center for Biological Diversity since 1999, in Atavists: Stories, paint a fast-moving, heart breaking collection of linked stories that evokes the joy and alienation between generations and classes in the era of mass overwhelm. Atavists follows a group of families, couples and loners in their collisions, confessions and conflicts in a post-pandemic America of artificially lush lawns, beauty salons, tech-bro mansions, assisted-living facilities, big box stores, gastropubs, college campuses and medieval role-playing festivals. The various “-ists” who people these linked stories- from futurists to insurrectionists  to cosmetologists – … Continue reading Joy and alienation between generations and classes

Max Verstappen’s spectacular move to take the lead from McLaren’s Oscar Piastri at the first corner, and then by the pace to win the F1 Grand Prix at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix in Imola. Verstappen never looked like losing the race once he was in the lead, true to Red Bull’s advert “Red Bull gives you wings”. McLaren were left to rue some of what Piastri described as “wrong calls” during the race. The decision to pit early for fresh tyres cost Piastri in the context of the way of the race unfolded, with first a virtual safety car … Continue reading Verstappen’s spectacular drive wins F1 in Imola