Has The Odyssey made the classics cool now? Life&Style Are they elitist or universal? Either way, they’re Christopher Nolan’s new film The Odyssey shows they’re going viral, says Eliot Wilson Classics – the study of ancient Greece and Rome, their languages, literature, history and art – is perceived not only as elitist, but as irrelevant, abstruse, without concrete value and self-indulgent. That you could [...]
Mickey 17 review: Parasite director has another five star hit Life&Style One of 2025’s most anticipated movies, Mickey 17, arrives this week, as Oscar winner Bong Joon-Ho returns to the big screen for the first time since 2019’s Parasite. Robert Pattinson stars as Mickey, a nice but dim-witted man living in a future version of Earth. In financial difficulties, he signs up to be an “expendable” [...]