Billie Eilish’s eponymous theme for the new Bond film, No Time To Die, was released last week, to surprised murmurs of approval. This is nothing
A poll the other day revealed that more than nine out of ten members of Momentum, the pro-Corbyn “party within a party” in Labour, believe
Educating Rita, Willy Russell’s great, wise play about the value of education and class, is now 40 years old. Somehow, this anniversary seems momentous, in
As the old saying doesn’t quite go, you wait all year for an adaptation of Charles Dickens, and then three come along at once. Last
Something that American television and cinema has always done much better than the British equivalent is the high school comedy. From American Pie to Election,
In our increasingly dull and sanitised age, where our rock and pop idols tend to be the privately educated milquetoast children of investment bankers and
Making a comedy about the Nazis is a bold and immensely dangerous undertaking. For every example of it working, usually at a slight remove –
Writing for a now defunct film publication a decade ago, I was given a comprehensive series of briefing notes. One of them was simple. “Our
Most actors, at some point, fancy a crack at directing, in the spirit of “anything some hack can do, I can do better”. The results
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