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Published years before WW2, Sally Carson's prescient novel captures the dawn of Nazi tyranny in a small German town - and remains relevant today.

Decades before Tom Cruise was making audiences gasp, the Gallic star was getting up to even more hair-raising exploits on screen - sometimes with few safety measures.

On 12 June 1962, three men escaped from the notorious Alcatraz prison. While their fate remains unknown, the ingenuity of their escape continues to captivate.

In 1956, Commander "Buster" Crabb disappeared during a visit to the UK by Soviet leader Nikita Khruschev. In 2006, a BBC reporter read the files that detailed his secret mission.

This year's Costume Institute spring exhibition and Met Gala are honouring black "dandy" style, and the tradition of bold tailoring worn by black men that has made a statement.

From Thunderbolts* to Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, these are the films to stream at home and watch at this cinema this month.

From Tina Fey's new relationship comedy to an action drama from the creator of Lost, and the return of Sarah Jessica Parker in the third season of And Just Like That ...

A new Apple TV+ series explores the life of the so-called "King of Chefs and the Chef of Kings" - shown as a wild enfant terrible who blazed a trail for future generations of cooks.

The latest in the superhero franchise "is scrappy, scruffy-looking, down-to-earth fun", with a "charismatic" Florence Pugh at its centre.

Ryan Coogler's vampire film had an extraordinary second weekend at the box office. It's a victory for a wholly original big-budget film in a cinema landscape of familiar franchises.