One of horror’s signature manoeuvres is the jump scare, when a person or object suddenly and startlingly leaps into view. But only once in living memory has this move been pulled off by an entire film. It occurred in 2022 after the release of X, Ti West’s nostalgic 1970s-set slasher about a massacre on a pornographic shoot.
My Lady Jane (Amazon Prime Video) could be innocently mistaken for something generated by ChatGPT. You can picture a bot processing the command to take a minor figure from Tudor history – a nine-day queen, say – and make her a feminist pin-up.
Kentucky basketball coach Mark Pope talked to the media about putting together the pieces of his first UK team.