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Sword-and-sandals epic is no Roman holiday, even for an empress We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Brad Newsome Save Normal text size Stan, from Friday* The figure of Livia Drusilla looms large in the history of Rome. For 50 years the wife of Julius Caesar’s adopted son, the emperor Augustus Caesar, she gave birth to another emperor, Tiberius, and from her line followed Caligula, Claudius and Nero. In between she became Rome’s most powerful empress. Of course, that makes things sound a good deal simpler than they were. And, as...

Anthony Horowitz This sequel to "Magpie Murders" is on one hand a deeply respectful blown kiss to the brainy and beloved old school British tradition of Agatha Christie and G.K. Chesterson crime books. But don't forget the thoroughly modern meta fiction innovations such as the novel-within-a-novel. Indeed, in order to solve a murder at the stately and pastoral hotel on the Suffix coast, returning heroine and book-editor-turned-sleuth Susan Ryeland has to re-examine a bestseller by her late author Alan Conway — one starring HIS series protagonist, Atticus Pünd. The characters and settin...

Netflix Added 29 New Movies And TV Shows This Week Netflix in the last week. Highlights include the period drama  Bridgerton, as well as Charlie Brooker’s  Death to 2020 special, and the George Clooney-directed  The Midnight Sky. What’s been made available, then, to the platform in the last seven days? Well, on the movie side, Brooker’s Death to 2020 adapts his  Screenwipe review format for Netflix, with the likes of Hugh Grant,  Stranger Things‘ Joe Keery, and Samuel L. Jackson popping up in a fictional take on this year’s events. Given the quality of the recent  Black Mirro...