John Lithgow as Dave Crealy, Geoffrey Rush as Stefan Mortensen, and Jenny Pen in James Ashcroft’s "The Rule of Jenny Pen." Credit: Courtesy of Matt Henley. An IFC Films and Shudder Release.

As March winds down into April later this week, the calendar turns to the annual day celebrated by pranksters and jokers ...

It is believed that in Scotland, April Fools’ Day was traditionally called 'Huntigowk Day', meaning 'Hunt the Gowk', as ‘gowk’ is a Scottish reference to a cuckoo or a foolish person.

In the late Victorian period, Old Kent Road had 37 pubs open for business. However, since changes in the law, environment, ...

Aimee Lou Wood's teeth have been a big talking point online, so much so that The White Lotus and Toxic Town star has confessed she's surprised by all the positive attention her gnashers are getting.

What does "nonce" mean in England? Once a harmless word, this British slang term has taken on a disturbing and highly ...

What with all the unnerving Trumpian/Muskian hoopla to process, I’ve found it more difficult to read for pleasure since Nov. 5, 2024.

With Riviera’s revenues doubling annually on strong passenger growth, the North American market potential definitely “now has the attention of the U.K,” she says. “While nobody outsells Riviera in the ...

Professor Sajni Mukherjee Kriplani of the Department of English, Jadavpur University from 1976 till the end of 2007, did not only make the earlier English language classics by Geoffrey Chaucer's ...

Gordon Jarvie’s ‘Dictionary of Idioms’ contains that example of a warning that has been with us since Geoffrey Chaucer’s 1385 epic poem, Troilus and Criseyde. When the storm is angry and ...