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Saturday, 12 October 2019
There are at least as many tour guides in Oxford as there are colleges. Virtually every kind of introduction to …
Continue reading "Philip Pullman continues to produce wonderful fantasias of the imagination"
By Alexander Larman
Friday, 4 October 2019
It is rare that a mainstream film is released with the intensity of hype employed to promote Joker. There is the …
Continue reading "Joker review – a smart, dark look at American urban life"
By Alexander Larman
Friday, 27 September 2019
Visitors to the new William Blake exhibition at Tate Britain – a show that we are contractually obliged to refer …
Continue reading "Woke Blake blockbuster doesn’t work"
By Alexander Larman
Friday, 20 September 2019
Amid the myriad comic-book sci-fi films of the past few years, there has been another genre existing alongside, catering to …
Continue reading "Ad Astra review – cinematic voyages like this do not come along too often"
By Alexander Larman
Friday, 13 September 2019
This weekend, the cinematic event of the year is released. Ad Astra? Joker? Little Women? Wrong on all counts, alas. …
Continue reading "The decline of Downton"
By Alexander Larman
Friday, 6 September 2019
In the largely disappointing Rufus Norris regime at the National, the premiere of Hansard was unexpected. A one-act, 90-minute play, …
Continue reading "Hansard at the National review – thought-provoking theatre"
By Alexander Larman
Friday, 23 August 2019
There is an old dictum in Hollywood, especially relevant in our cheapened times, that franchises never end, but only remain …
Continue reading "Will the Matrix remake be more than a lazy cash in?"
By Alexander Larman
Friday, 16 August 2019
One of the most unexpected resurrections of an existing film has recently occurred in the US, in the form of …
Continue reading "TV spin-off cannot hope to recreate the success of Four Weddings"
By Alexander Larman
Friday, 9 August 2019
The front cover of this week’s Radio Times has an unlikely trio of cover stars: Captain Mainwaring, Sergeant Wilson and …
Continue reading "Sitcom remakes show a lack of adventure in modern entertainment"
By Alexander Larman
