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Young Lara Bauer is too curious by far, her mind yearning for stimulation, her soul yearning for companionship beyond the stern tutelage of her governess Miss Fontaine and

Eighty novels in just shy of eighty years is a worthy milestone for any author, but Mary Elizabeth Braddon was more beyond that notable achievement, a former actor

It began in the highlands of Bolivia in 2015, the expedition let by Doctors Tim Fanning and Jonas Lear to locate a mythical two-hundred-and-fifty-year-old man, a quest for

Built to carry 2,000, the Baltic Charisma has seen better days, now a second-rate booze cruiser plying the route between Stockholm, Åland and Åbo in Finland before returning

Running in the New Perspectives strand of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, as the programme notes point out, this is actually a return to an old perspective of

In the calm rural scenery of Ireland’s County Offaly, a farmer goes about his business under the wide skies, cutting and stacking peat when he uncovers something, a

By day the oil wells drain the dry earth. Indoors, Hossein hides from the light, craving his next fix, while his son Arash (Arash Marandi) negotiates with dealer

It’s five years since Guillermo del Toro, acclaimed producer and director of such films as El espinazo del diablo and El laberinto del fauno as well as more

With their ambition declared from the outset to create “the world’s greatest video travelogue ever,” under a montage of travel photos bestest buddies Clif and Derek introduce themselves

Vampires. Immortal, seductive, destructive, the lonely hunters who walk the night. They have been reinvented time and again in the stories of each generation, from Polidori’s The Vampyre