Olivia Emily

Last week was a ‘bumper week’ for UK booksellers as sales hit £33.6 million in seven days. This is an 11% increase on the previous week, and the best first week of September on record.

When lockdown rele […]

The Royal Shakespeare Company have announced that they will remain closed until 2021, as well as their plans for redundancy consultations, in line with the end of the Coronavirus job retention scheme in October. […]

Selling Sunset lured many of us in at some point during lockdown with its glitzy houses, glamourous realtors, and a little bit of help from a very pushy Netflix algorithm. Giving an insight into the lives of the […]

Logan Lerman and Asa Butterfield are set to star in College Republicans, Deadline exclusively reported. James Schamus has signed on to direct the picture, which has been in development for over a decade.

Set […]

The Royal Shakespeare Company have announced the rescheduling of their 2020 Winter season, with hopes to reopen theatres as soon as possible- starting with rescheduled performances of The Winter’s Ta […]

Director Gina Prince-Bythewood has been confirmed for the upcoming historical epic, The Woman King, starring Academy Award winners Viola Davis and Lupita Nyong’o. The news comes over two years after Sony’s Tri […]

Jude Law is in talks to play Captain Hook in Disney’s upcoming live action Peter Pan reboot, Peter Pan and Wendy. The news comes four months after Ever Anderson and Alexander Molony were confirmed to be playing W […]

Aaron Sorkin’s star-studded upcoming film The Trial of the Chicago 7 is heading to Netflix. The streaming giant recently confirmed that it had bought the distribution rights from Paramount for $56 m […]

Dan Brown’s best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code has been confirmed as the next up-and-coming play to hit the UK. The world premiere of Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel’s adaptation will travel across the c […]

A new anthology of short, quarantine-created films is heading to Netflix. Homemade, spearheaded by filmmaker Pablo Larraín, will see 17 filmmakers unite to capture the shared experience of quarantine.

In the […]

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has officially announced a two month postponement of the 2021 Oscars Awards ceremony due to the continuing coronavirus pandemic.

The eligibility period for films, […]

Archaeologists have found the remains of London’s oldest playhouse, The Red Lion, in an excavation project on Stepney Way. The site is the former location of a SafeStore self-storage site, and was set to become a […]

It’s almost one month since I started reading A Little Life, the Man Booker Prize finalist by Hanya Yanagihara published in 2015. Prior to this, my lockdown reading had been speedy – almost frantic – as I tried […]

“I’m sure

Somebody died while

We made love. Some-

Body killed somebody

Black. I thought then

Of holding you

As a political act. I

May as well have

Held myself.”

(‘Stand’ in The Tradi […]

As a nation, we are all looking for a little bit of escapism in these strange times. Arecent report by The Guardian found that many of us are turning to books, withthe average adult’s reading time in lockdown h […]