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There is much to be said – in these times of inflating prices and geopolitical turbulence – for the steady presence of an old reliable. Europe is nervous, war flickering at its edges. The Middle East is aflame. And reading/watching/hearing the news can feel like an exercise in self-torture, so anxiety-inducing can it be.

Israel has launched a strike against Iran, a U.S. official tells NPR. Taylor Swift's highly anticipated "Tortured Poets Department" is here.

Croydon Council boasts about the high profile movies filmed in the area attracting stars such as Tom Hanks, Brad Pitt and Michael Keaton to the borough, but it also suffers from a stabbing epidemic.

At a time when the Berlin Wall had largely lowered the city’s temperature and shifted the focus of the Cold War elsewhere, its symbolic presence was multiplied exponentially by films that cemented Berlin’s reputation as a city of intrigue and action.