Arts & Entertainment

Five romantic heroes who would definitely not be like that in real life

DO you find the leading men in romantic films completely unbelievable? That’s because they are. Here’s how they’d be in real life.

Othello is black: six carefully hidden woke messages in Shakespeare plays

THINK you love The Bard? You won’t when you find out he’s been hiding woke ideology in his plays for centuries. Right-wing historian Denys Finch Hatton explains.

The six bollocks superhero movies that will kill the genre

SUPERHERO movies have hit such a low that next week’s is Shang-Chi from 70s comic Master of Kung-Fu. And they’ll only get worse.

Ground Force and other 90s shit they'll bring back next

THE return of scrunchies and Changing Rooms apparently means the 1990s are back. What other awful 90s dross will be next?

Six cartoons that were much weirder than you realised as a kid

AS a child you uncritically sat through hours of cartoons while eating your Monster Munch. Here’s how some of them were far more messed-up than you realised.

Calling late-night 90s chatlines: weird things you used your landline for

LANDLINES are to be axed by the year 2025. Here are five things you used that humble copper wire for before the internet came along.

The seven stages of disappointment in a new streaming show

EXCITED by the latest much-hyped show on Netflix or Amazon? Here’s how you’ll gradually regret getting sucked into it.

Six movie romances that crashed and f**king burned shortly after the credits

IN MOVIES, even the most mismatched couples end up deeply in love forever. Here’s how those big-screen romances would have failed in reality.

Five ways a family festival will be ruined by your f**king family

IT’S easy to believe that taking your young family to a festival will be fun. Here's why the reality will be horribly different:

The Aniston-Schwimmer love affair, and other bullshit things to believe to make yourself feel better

IS your psyche so fragile you need to believe that Jennifer Aniston and David Schwimmer are in love to get through the day? These things could also work.