Invisible Women? Hollywood's female superhero problem
Monday, 17 August 2015, 15:59
Last update: about 12 years ago
The list of male superheroes starring in their own big-screen escapades is bigger than Tony Stark's ego, and the billions of dollars these films have generated rival the fortunes of the...
Ray-Ban invites its fans to body-painting dares at Creamfields
Monday, 17 August 2015, 15:00
Last update: about 12 years ago
Legendary brand Ray-Ban is inviting its fans to change the world this summer by being true to themselves and openly express their beliefs, world-changing ideas and deepest confessions. A...
Cliff Zammit Stevens’ concert with the MPO
Monday, 17 August 2015, 14:59
Last update: about 12 years ago
Maltese tenor Cliff Zammit Stevens is set to return to Malta for his seventh, annual summer concert. Cliff Zammit Stevens Concert with the MPO will take place on Friday, 4 September at the Renzo Piano...
A ‘smart’ narrator
Monday, 17 August 2015, 14:43
Last update: about 12 years ago
For most adults, dealing with the world of teenagers feels like gazing at an abstract work of art of which they cannot make sense. A kind of mystery that retains its cryptic nature, even though it is...
Laurent Ropa
Monday, 17 August 2015, 14:41
Last update: about 12 years ago
The historicity of Maltese seafaring knows its origins from the earliest of times; whether exploring, pirateering or indeed migrating in search of brighter days. The great migratory waves, however,...
Colonial encounters
Monday, 17 August 2015, 14:40
Last update: about 12 years ago
This volume brings together international and Maltese scholars, offering a line-up of innovative contributions to some of the most current and demanding, social, economic and cultural debates on...
In Lazzaretto
Monday, 17 August 2015, 14:38
Last update: about 12 years ago
Malta's history has served as an incomparable backdrop to countless novels in literature. Looking to the past century, though, there is one glaring omission: 1950s Malta, the decade before...
Hollywood takes on troubled minds with summer slate of films
Sunday, 16 August 2015, 15:55
Last update: about 12 years ago
The 1941 film "The Wolf Man" presents Larry Talbot's transformation from man to wolf as a form of schizophrenia. So little was known about mental illnesses then, the explanation may have seemed...
Ice Cube's son becomes him in 'Straight Outta Compton'
Saturday, 15 August 2015, 15:53
Last update: about 12 years ago
O'Shea Jackson, Jr. was determined to play his father, Ice Cube, in "Straight Outta Compton." Not only does the 23-year-old look uncannily like his dad, but he's got the rapper-turned-movie star's...
Long-lost Fitzgerald story finally published
Saturday, 15 August 2015, 15:18
Last update: about 12 years ago
A year before F. Scott Fitzgerald died of a heart attack, he completed a short story about a hard-drinking writer diagnosed with cardiac disease. "And as for that current dodge 'No reference to...