By Tom Grater
30.04.2020 - 23:45 / hollywoodreporter.com
Released in 2013 (and translated into English the following year), Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century did the impossible —turn an economics text into a massive best-seller —in part because it was accessible to nonscholars, gathering the data and principles that confirmed what many readers instinctively knew: Fewer and fewer people controlled more and more of the world's assets, and this was a bad thing.
Given the extent to which it has informed public debates about economic
.By Tom Grater
By Nancy Tartaglione
Piers Morgan returned to Good Morning Britain today and appeared recharged with rage over the government’s most recent announcement about lockdown.
Dominic Raab has declared that there is to be no change in lockdown rules ahead of the bank holiday weekend.
Dominic Raab tonight insisted any changes to lockdown would be "modest, small and incremental".
By Tim Dams
The country will have to "adjust to a new normal" as it prepares for life after lockdown, the Foreign Secretary warned today.
Although it presumably didn't involve much financial risk, it was a gutsy move for Paramount Pictures to pick up the low-budget British teen gang drama Blue Story for domestic theatrical distribution in the current era in which studios concentrate on would-be franchises.
Carole Baskin seems to be taking a recent prank in stride.
A Bulgarian immigrant rails against Brexit-era Britain in Mina Mileva and Vesela Kazakova's thorny, thoughtful narrative debut.
The musician has called the track one of her favourite songs
Hot-button subject matter proves surprisingly less than compelling in Anthony Woodley's The Flood, a film about a British immigration officer interviewing a high-profile detainee. The pic was inspired by the experiences of director Woodley, screenwriter Helen Kingston and producer Luke Healy volunteering in the Calais refugee camp known as "The Jungle," and you can feel the efforts of the filmmakers to pack in all the insights they gleaned.
Leave it to Ricky Gervais to make a Zoom interview with Jimmy Fallon hilarious.