The hypnotic, amoral spell of 'Longlegs'
2024 was a good year for horror movies, with movie theater audiences flocking to both arthouse provocations (Substance) and series reboots (The First Omen). But one movie in particular stands out. It is for reasons that should make us anxious. What's frightening about Longlegs isn't his love or ways, but the sense that he's backed […]
This exit poll portends total rejection of these amoral Tories – and incredible vindication for Labour | Hugh Muir
Gradually, and then suddenly. Ernest Hemingway famously described his characters’ bankruptcies.Thus came a brutal end to 14 years of Tory hegemony in Britain. If the exit polls published just after 10pm are even half right, this is more of a punitive blow than a change of government, and a well-deserved retribution: Keir Starmer and his […]