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Forget Batgirl, where’s Superman Lives? The inside stories of Hollywood’s biggest abandoned films
Eliot Ness hunts a killer, Nicolas Cage plays the Man of Steel and Marilyn Monroe is The Girl in Pink Tights in films that were never released. A writer, a producer and a film expert tell the movies’ hidden histories
Lizzy Dening
12, Aug, 2022 @10:00 AM
Grow your likes: the unstoppable rise of the Insta plant
They’re green, photogenic and social media stars
Lizzy Dening
25, Jan, 2020 @11:00 AM
'Make sure they don't eat the set!' Movie animal trainers' tips
From Wonder Woman’s goats to a rat in a spacesuit and millipedes who starred with Malkovich, cinema’s creature teachers share their stories
Lizzy Dening
10, May, 2019 @9:00 AM
Swipe right for succulents: gardening in the age of Instagram
How to get the most out of propagation parties and #plantspiration
Lizzy Dening
17, Nov, 2018 @11:00 AM
Anti Diet Riot Club: the body-positivity meetings taking on ‘diet culture’
From life drawing to yoga for all sizes, new monthly meetups are taking the ‘BoPo’ movement off the web and into the real world
Lizzy Dening
25, Mar, 2018 @4:00 PM
Starry, starry nights: dark skies festival in North Yorkshire
The UK’s Dark Skies Festival begins today, offering stargazing in the best light – real dark. Our writer spies the heavens in North Yorkshire
Lizzy Dening
09, Feb, 2018 @10:58 AM
Breaking news: why does Hollywood gloss over the world of magazine journalism?
While Steven Spielberg’s drama again venerates the men who report the news, cinema still portrays magazine offices as the realm of shallow, shameful women
Lizzy Dening
03, Jan, 2018 @6:00 AM
Spice World: the feminist movie? When girl power hit the big screen
It ditched male charmers and knocked the Bechdel test out of the park. Two decades on, the Spice Girls’ film looks like a brilliant gateway to the F-word
Lizzy Dening
28, Sep, 2017 @5:00 AM
The Moomins: Tove Jansson’s feminist legacy
The Finnish author and illustrator used her books to subtly challenge views on how women should live and behave. Now, those stories are part of an Oxfam campaign to empower women around the world
Lizzy Dening
26, Sep, 2017 @8:35 AM
Bright sparks: why Jersey's dazzling glowworms are a secret worth searching out
Jersey’s beaches can be lit by the amazing bioluminescence of glowworms, though their beauty remains a secret to many tourists, and islanders. A walking tour hopes to give more exposure to this natural wonder
Lizzy Dening
12, Mar, 2017 @7:00 AM
Country diary: Coggeshall, Essex: The water babbles like a room of people
Country diary: Coggeshall, Essex: A lichen-flecked sign says we're on the Essex Way, and we follow the Harwich direction
Lizzy Dening
03, Jan, 2013 @9:00 PM
Country diary: Lackford Lakes, Suffolk: The lake is muted under the winter sun, like a faint watercolour painting
Country diary: Lackford Lakes, Suffolk: The cormorants' upturned faces give them a superior expression as they bask, their dark wings spread towards the sun like parasols
Lizzy Dening
20, Dec, 2012 @8:59 PM
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