Category: Films

Back in the early 20th century, Anyox was a booming mining town in British Columbia, Canada. It is now a deserted wasteland; only two residents [more…]

One Sunday night in September 1984, between championship darts and the news with Jan Leeming, the BBC broadcast one of its bravest, most devastating commissions. [more…]

The Oscar-winning British film director, Sir Steve McQueen, who is most famous for bringing the horror of the slave trade to cinema screens, has turned [more…]

I first catch sight of Demi Moore crouching on the floor in a hotel corridor, coal-black hair fanned across her back. She’s talking in a [more…]

On Sunday, the Toronto film festival will hand out its prizes and roll up its red carpet, a week after the Venice film festival did [more…]

It’s been a few years since Hollywood’s rush for young adult dystopian franchises, from The Hunger Games to Divergent to The Maze Runner. Which makes [more…]

Sir Ian McKellen dropped a stinker on the British talkshow This Morning earlier in the week so putrid that even Gollum himself might steer clear [more…]

Tolstoy famously suggested in barnstorming infidelity classic Anna Karenina that all happy families are alike, while the unhappy ones are unhappy in their own way [more…]

The current sorry state of Saturday Night Live, a weekly comedy show so consistently, maddeningly absent of laughs that it now borders on avant garde [more…]

‘So kind and gentle’ I got to meet James Earl Jones in 2010 for a moment after seeing the play Cat on a Hot Tin [more…]