Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are getting married so all eyes will be on Windsor this weekend for the royal wedding. Harry and Meghan announced their engagement to a flurry of excitement in November 2017, just days after Harry had popped the question over roast chicken. But who will be on the guest list? What dress will Meghan wear ? There's been a lot to sort out for the £32m event . There was also a last-minute setback as Meghan's father Thomas claimed on Monday he was no longer planning to attend after reports of his alleged dealings with paparazzi and reports of a heart attack . Although later expressing he still wished to be at his daughter's wedding, he is understood to be undergoing major heart surgery and will not recover in time for his daughter's big day, according to reports. We now know Prince Charles will walk Meghan down the aisle. Everything else seems to be on track though, so what can you expect? Subscribe to the Mirror's royal podcast Pod Save The Queen … [Read more...] about What time is the royal wedding on Saturday
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Mary Shelley Is a Tragically Flat Coming-of-Age Film
Mary Shelley has all the makings of a classic teen girl coming-of-age film. There’s a passionate, star-crossed romance, spats with pseudo-intellectual sexist bros who undermine our heroine’s intelligence, drunken parties, and nights filled with scribbling in a notebook instead of sleeping. The themes are so familiar, so well-worn, that you might forget this is a movie about Frankenstein author Mary Shelley, who wrote the groundbreaking sci-fi horror story when she was just a teenager in the early 19th Century. The surprisingly limited scope of Mary Shelley, directed by Haifaa al-Mansour, is precisely what makes it a drag. Elle Fanning, who’s continuing to successfully move on from the fragile, doll-like roles of her youth into harsher territory, stars as 16-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft-Godwin, the daughter of philosopher William Godwin and feminist advocate Mary Wollstonecraft. She possesses dreams of being a great writer who can make readers’ “blood … [Read more...] about Mary Shelley Is a Tragically Flat Coming-of-Age Film
Here’s Everything That’s Banned on Facebook, All on One Page
Facebook has publicly released its most complete community guidelines to date after many years keeping the specific rules its moderators used to govern the platform secret. The update tacked over 5,000 more words onto the already unwieldy document, which now includes highly specific examples of banned or heavily regulated content. Is any of it at all surprising? Well, yes. Most platforms have rules that outline common-sense genres of content they’d rather not be liable for—harassment, hate speech, gore, child endangerment, etc.—and these are no different. But as a reflection of its size and global reach, Facebook’s guidelines include some of the most granular examples of what not to do online. Cannibalism is off limits. “Sexualized massages” are specifically barred. Staged animal fights won’t fly, and neither will videos of animals being processed for food. Images of buttocks or an anus are a no-go, “unless photoshopped on a public … [Read more...] about Here’s Everything That’s Banned on Facebook, All on One Page
What Syfy’s Superman prequel series Krypton is doing right
Superman’s origin story is so well-known that Grant Morrison opened his All-Star Superman series by summing it up in just eight words: “Doomed planet. Desperate scientists. Last hope. Kindly couple.” Krypton showrunner Cameron Welsh, who cites All-Star Superman as one of his favorite Superman stories, has the unenviable task of trying to make audiences really care about the “doomed planet / desperate scientists” half of that story. Prequels always struggle to justify their existence, and that’s especially true for Krypton, Syfy’s pre-Superman prequel series. The show has to deal with the fact that all of its characters are doomed, and its eventual endpoint was first established 80 years ago. It also has to deal with the inevitable comparisons to DC’s other current superhero-prequel series, the lackluster Batman show Gotham. Welsh has risen to that challenge by abandoning the serialized monster-of-the-week structure of DC’s other … [Read more...] about What Syfy’s Superman prequel series Krypton is doing right