Eighties pop is the best genre for reducing anxiety, study reveals 

Eighties pop is the best musical genre for reducing blood pressure, due to its ‘positive nostalgia’, researchers have found.   Turkish researchers hooked up 1,540 volunteers aged between 18 and 65 to blood pressure and heart rate monitors and played them a variety of music on Spotify.  Music from the hit TV series It’s a Sin, … Read more

Saint Maud review: Entirely rooted in its own genre and yet still entirely its own picture 

Saint Maud starring Morfydd Clark manages the clever trick of being entirely rooted in its own genre and yet still be entirely its own picture By Matthew Bond for Event Magazine Published: 22:01 BST, 17 October 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 17 October 2020 Saint Maud                    … Read more

Ice-T wants to create a retirement fund for the ageing OG rappers that pioneered the genre 

Ice-T wants to create a retirement fund for the ageing OG rappers that pioneered the genre By Dailymail.com Reporter Published: 18:04 BST, 31 May 2020 | Updated: 18:14 BST, 31 May 2020 Ice-T wants to create a retirement fund for ageing rappers.  The 62-year-old star has floated the idea of creating a fund after Swizz … Read more

Alec Baldwin to take on the western genre as producer and star of the film Rust

Alec Baldwin to take on the western genre as producer and star of the film Rust By Dan Heching For Dailymail.com Published: 00:11 BST, 30 May 2020 | Updated: 00:11 BST, 30 May 2020 He’s enjoyed a supremely successful career in film and television ever since exploding onto the scene over 30 years ago. And … Read more

Jessica Alba set to return to action genre with leading role in Netflix film Trigger Warning

She’s back! Jessica Alba set to return to action genre with leading role in Netflix film Trigger Warning By Kevin Kayhart For Dailymail.com Published: 00:17 BST, 16 May 2020 | Updated: 00:17 BST, 16 May 2020 Netflix is taking another stab at the action film genre, only this time with Jessica Alba in the lead … Read more

No genre of literature offers a more colourful cast of characters than history

On Saturday, Dominic Sandbrook — one of our most eminent historians — celebrated the joys of non-fiction by paying tribute to the authors of diaries. Today, he celebrates historians. Whether it’s Edward Gibbon’s magisterial dissection of the fall of the Roman Empire or Ian Kershaw’s devastating portrait of Hitler, these works show it is only … Read more