Luke Holland

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Luke Holland

It’s amazing to think that, not so very long ago, people were actually excited at the prospect of a new Star Wars show. Or when it emerged that a fresh Lord of the Rings saga was, through some kind of Gandalfian wizardry, being squeezed on to the small screen, the reaction was one of giddy awe. Even the faintest whisper of another trip to Hogwarts would have set the whole internet ablaze. And now? Well, here’s a test: there’s a new Harry Potter series coming out soon. How does that make you feel?

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Peter Bradshaw |Stuart Heritage |Phil Hoad |Anne Billson |Laura Snapes |Lucy Knight | +6 more

Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Peter Bradshaw |Stuart Heritage |Phil Hoad |Anne Billson |Laura Snapes |Lucy Knight | +6 more

Archie Leach makes an appearanceOne of Hollywood’s most durable Easter eggs debuted in Howard Hawks’s His Girl Friday (1940) when Cary Grant’s character says: “The last man who said that to me was Archie Leach just a week before he cut his throat!” And in Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) his character sits pensively in a cemetery where Archie Leach’s gravestone is to be seen. In Charles Crichton’s A Fish Called Wanda (1988), John Cleese’s character is called Archie Leach.

1 month ago | readlion.com | Adam Wittenberg |Katelynn Richardson |Luke Holland

A Wisconsin teen with ties to a satanic cult has been charged with killing his parents so he could have the money and autonomy to assassinate President Donald Trump. It was part of a plot to overthrow the United States’ government, authorities say. Police arrested Nikita Casap, 17, in Kansas in late February after he allegedly killed his mother and stepfather two weeks earlier. He had a gun, $14,000 in cash and $14,000 worth of his mother’s jewelry when he was arrested, WISN reported.

1 month ago | readlion.com | Michaela Estruth |Luke Holland |Alexa Schwerha |Grant Braaten

A bureau of the U.S. State Department announced Sunday that it is monitoring the case of a British woman on trial for engaging in civil conversation with women inside a “buffer zone” of a nearby abortion facility. The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL), which defends individual liberty and democratic freedoms worldwide, posted a statement on X about the case ahead of its April 4 verdict, Fox News reported.