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CinemaBlend Copy to clipboard CinemaBlend participates in affiliate programs with various companies. We may earn a commission when you click on or make purchases via links. Ready Player One was an expansive sci-fi action-adventure that introduced audiences to a dystopian world which was simultaneously old and new. More specifically, it centered around the disenfranchised lives of wayward strangers who are connected by their desire to discover the lost fortune of mysterious billionaire James Hal...

21 min read What did The Irish Times first say about some works of literature that turned into classics? We trawled the archive to find out The Irish Times was founded in March 1859 and, more than 160 years later, is recognised for the quality and the quantity of the pages it devotes to Irish and international literature. Its deep engagement is reflected in the authors who have written columns for it over the years, among them Brian Friel, Kate O’Brien, John Montague, Maeve Binchy, Dere...

There’s a line at the opening of Kiley Reid’s hit debut, Such a Fun Age, that encapsulates the drama at the heart of the recent spate of nanny novels. Emira, a young black woman dressed for a night out, is stopped by a security guard in an upscale supermarket with Briar, the white child she looks after. It’s late, the guard wants to know where Briar’s parents are. He won’t let Emira leave with her. “But she’s my child right now,” she tells the guard. â...

8 Shows Like Bridgerton You Can Watch While You Wait for Season 2 on Netflix Check out even more shows about romance and high-society scandal Tim Surette Jonathan Bailey, Netflixs pearl-clutching romance  Bridgerton still has everyone talking. The drama, executive produced by Shonda Rhimes and set in 1800s London, is packed with steamy romance between dapper dudes and gowned gals, all with accents to melt your insides, as they elbow each other up the social ladder of high society. By...

Shows like Bridgerton you can watch on Amazon and Netflix while we wait for season two With filming for season two only just underway, were going to need something similar to tide us over The Bridgerton family (Image: Liam Daniel/Netflix) FIND OUT WHATS ON NEAR YOU WITH OUR NEWSLETTER Invalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. SIGN UP When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPriv...

This scandalous duchess inspired Vanity Fair – but her life was more like Elizabeth Taylors 4/5 Catherine Ostlers The Duchess Countess resurrects Elizabeth Chudleigh, branded a bigamist, the greatest anti-heroine of the Georgian era Anti-heroine: Olivia Cooke as Becky Sharp in ITVs Vanity Fair  Credit: Television Stills Even good biographies read like bad novels. Catherine Ostler refers to one of her characters “gazing into the middle distance with a faint, enigmatic smile”. There are pe...

The scandalous duchess who inspired one of English literature’s greatest works A new biography tells the story of Elizabeth Chudleigh, whose charm, ambition, and conviction for bigamy inspired Vanity Fairs Becky Sharp 7 April 2021 • 8:29am Olivia Cooke As Becky Sharp in ITV’s Vanity Fair, the novel inspired by the life of the ‘Duchess Countess’, Elizabeth Chudleigh “Miss Sharp put her pale face out of the window and actually flung the book back into the garden.” Here is Thackeray�...

The Untold Truth Of King Kongs Creators The Untold Truth Of King Kongs Creators United Archives/Getty Images By Sam Scott/April 6, 2021 7:02 pm EDT King Kong is such a part of pop culture that it seems like hes always been around. Those images — of the giant ape, of him fighting with prehistoric beasts, menacing a woman chained to an ancient altar, chained up himself in a Broadway theater, climbing the Empire State Building as biplanes circle for the kill — hit on such a gu...

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Anna Delvey is Manhattans most notorious conwoman Credit: Eric T White Styling: Jenesee Utley Anna Delvey is fresh out of jail and has recently moved into a new apartment in West Chelsea. Its the first home shes ever had in New York City. Until her three-year spell in prison, shed spent four years living it up in suites in five-star Manhattan hotels such as 11 Howard and The Standard - without paying for them. Hence the move to a not-very-five-star prison cell. Now shes adapting to life with ne...