Shababa Iqbal

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey (2026) is everything audiences expect from a modern mythological epic: grand battles, brutal violence and a hero caught between glory and guilt. Adapted from Homer’s ancient Greek poem, the film is an impressive feat of action-adventure cinema. But for all its spectacle, it loses something when the myth remains so firmly centred on its hero: the women whose stories are left underwritten.

People are digging up everything — live concert footage, the short films he turned his music videos into, grainy rehearsal clips — and it’s all circulating across social media. Some of them weren’t even born when he died.

What if Beth March in Little Women (1868) hadn’t died of scarlet fever, but had been brutally murdered instead?

At the heart of the film is Jaafar Jackson. To say he embodies his legendary uncle would be an understatement. He doesn't merely play Michael Jackson — he channels him, and watching him, I found myself forgetting, more than once, that I wasn't watching the man himself.

If you are looking for a show that spirals gloriously out of control while still keeping things fun, “Big Mistakes” delivers exactly that. It is fast-paced, chaotic in all the right ways, and just self-aware enough to stay entertaining without tipping into exhaustion.

Romance has never existed apart from inequality. The genre depends on distance—on obstacles that make love feel hard-won.

Few genres are as unapologetically optimistic as romance. At its core lies the Happily Ever After (HEA), a convention so fundamental that it often stands in for the genre itself.

Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games series has captivated pop culture with its bold take on tyranny, sacrifice, and resistance, spanning Katniss Everdeen’s blazing defiance in The Hunger Games (2008) to her final stand in Mockingjay (2010) against Coriolanus Snow’s cold cruelty.