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Saturday, 22 February 2020
Billie Eilish’s eponymous theme for the new Bond film, No Time To Die, was released last week, to surprised murmurs …
Continue reading "Why James Bond themes, good, bad and ugly, have a special place in our culture"
By Alexander Larman
Saturday, 15 February 2020
A poll the other day revealed that more than nine out of ten members of Momentum, the pro-Corbyn “party within …
Continue reading "Leopoldstadt review – wise, weary and heartbreakingly sad"
By Alexander Larman
Saturday, 8 February 2020
Educating Rita, Willy Russell’s great, wise play about the value of education and class, is now 40 years old. Somehow, …
Continue reading "Educating Rita 40 years on – few plays have enjoyed such a rich afterlife"
By Alexander Larman
Saturday, 1 February 2020
As the old saying doesn’t quite go, you wait all year for an adaptation of Charles Dickens, and then three …
Continue reading "Dickens adaptations could do with more of Iannucci’s joie de vivre"
By Alexander Larman
Saturday, 25 January 2020
Something that American television and cinema has always done much better than the British equivalent is the high school comedy. …
Continue reading "Sex Education series 2 review – splendidly bingeworthy"
By Alexander Larman
Saturday, 18 January 2020
In our increasingly dull and sanitised age, where our rock and pop idols tend to be the privately educated milquetoast …
Continue reading "Elton John’s Me – hilarious, jaw-droppingly candid memoir"
By Alexander Larman
Saturday, 11 January 2020
Making a comedy about the Nazis is a bold and immensely dangerous undertaking. For every example of it working, usually …
Continue reading "Jojo Rabbit review – well-executed very serious farce"
By Alexander Larman
Saturday, 21 December 2019
Writing for a now defunct film publication a decade ago, I was given a comprehensive series of briefing notes. One …
Continue reading "Rise of Skywalker romp is a worthy finale to the Star Wars franchise"
By Alexander Larman
Saturday, 14 December 2019
Most actors, at some point, fancy a crack at directing, in the spirit of “anything some hack can do, I …
Continue reading "Motherless Brooklyn review – highly watchable with an air of melancholy"
By Alexander Larman
