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Photo by Umair Dingmar on Unsplash (licensed under the Unsplash licence) In the summer of 2025, the two-part documentary ‘The Hunt for Shannon Matthews’ (Ben Sheldon, 2025) was released – all about the staged kidnapping that put my hometown of Dewsbury, West Yorkshire on the map. I watched it, of course. My whole family did. I even made my boyfriend – privately educated and capable of pronouncing his t’s – watch it too. A sort of “look at this crazy place I call home” exercis

Photo by Wallace Chuck via Pexels under the Pexels content licence “A man who’s not dangerous will never be seen as successful. You can’t be a little bitch,” Andrew Tate declares in the opening montage of Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere (2026), setting the tone for a documentary steeped in aggressive, chauvinistic rhetoric. While such vitriol may shock some viewers, it will come as little surprise to those familiar with the growing prevalence of online misogyny. In an

" BoJack Horseman in LEGO " by Ochre Jelly via Flickr (licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 ) One of my earliest memories as a child involves me sitting in front of our family TV, cereal bowl in hand, watching an episode of Little Einsteins . I remember patting along on my lap to get Rocket, the friendly spaceship, to launch, and hearing Vivaldi’s Morning Mood orchestrated as the animated children on screen encouragingly asked me to identify the shapes in the scene. This was my f

“A before David and an after David” is how Sabrina Sutherland described the change in her professional and personal life when she started working with Lynch; those who surrounded him seemed to feel the same gravitational pull.