From the beheading in The Omen to the attic scene in The Birds, here’s a countdown of the genre’s most iconic moments – in glorious, old-school pre-CGI styleTowards the end of the 20th century, when film-makers’ overreliance on CGI was increasingly making special effects less special, it took the old-school…

A recording of a closed-door meeting revealed some faculty sought to delay the vote, but others urged immediacyFaculty members at Cornell University are pressing ahead with a no-confidence vote in campus leadership over its handling of a gang-rape scandal involving students at a fraternity at the Ivy League…

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A game is not a moral exemption to your usual self. Sometimes the best way to puncture ‘it’s just a game’ is to show people that you’re judging them in realityRead more Leading questionsMy sister-in-law is nearly 40 but cannot handle losing at board games. No matter how high or low the stakes, she has to win…

Sinfonia of London/Wilson/Kilsby/Parkes(Chandos)The Sinfonia and John Wilson bring warmth and sparkle to works by Ireland, Walton and Goosens; rising star tenor Laurence Kilsby and Christopher Parkes are expressive soloists in the Britten SerenadeThis is John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London’s third album exploring…

Afshar’s experiences as a young woman in Iran have shaped her artistic career in Australia, focusing her eye on the humanity within inhumane systemsGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailWhen Hoda Afshar was a teenager, coming of age in theocratic and authoritarian Iran in the 1990s, she and her friends were…

Victorian court to hand down decision on Friday on two appeals regarding Patterson’s triple murder caseGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastErin Patterson is set to find out if she could face a longer prison sentence or a new trial, as Victoria’s highest court hands down its decision on two…

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Resolution Foundation says 2020s set to be the worst decade, by far, for more than half a century for rising living standardsSelling nicotine-free vapes to children under the age of 18 has become illegal from today, the government has said.Children were already banned from buying vapes containing nicotine. But, under…

Giving evidence at her husband’s rape trial, Laura Brand says couple previously split up over his promiscuityRussell Brand’s wife has told a court that they previously split up over his promiscuity but that he was a “wonderful father” and an “amazingly attentive husband”.Giving evidence at her husband’s…