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Nov 17, 2025
The results of last night’s Booker Prize – the most prestigious and generous prize for literature in the country – were not entirely as anticipated. In a notably...
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Oct 16, 2025
At the close of Milos Forman’s Oscar-winning film, Amadeus, the central character, the terminally envious court composer Salieri, declares: ‘I speak for all...
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Oct 8, 2025
“Eternity’s a terrible thought. I mean, where’s it going to end?” — Rosencrantz, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, 1967
I have met Tom...
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Sep 10, 2025
Imagine the situation. Either you’re a first-time writer who’s recently acquired an agent thanks to a brilliant idea, or you’re a seasoned pro, about to tackle your...
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Sep 8, 2025
In the old days of Hollywood, stars and starlets alike were anointed as “It” girls and men. Nobody was ever quite sure what “It” denoted – star quality,...
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Aug 14, 2025
Weapons, Zach Cregger’s sophomore picture after the acclaimed Barbarian, was a conspicuous success story in its opening weekend: brilliant reviews, an A- CinemaScore from...
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Jul 23, 2025
When I saw Master and Commander, Peter Weir’s fine adaptation of two of Patrick O’Brian’s novels, upon its initial release in 2003, it was an interesting...
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Jun 27, 2025
In a largely patchy summer for blockbusters – the excellent 28 Years Later aside – Joseph Kosinki’s F1 stands out for two distinct reasons. The film has arrived at...
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Jun 18, 2025
One of the most memorable dinners I ever had was about 20 years ago, at a Michelin-starred restaurant in Fitzrovia called Pied à Terre. It’s still going, and indeed...
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Jun 3, 2025
The death of the novelist David Lodge at the beginning of this year appeared to denote the end of a sub-genre that Lodge, amongst others, had been responsible for popularising,...
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May 23, 2025
When the eighth and supposedly last Mission Impossible film, The Final Reckoning, is released this week, there will be little discussion of its writer-director...
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Apr 25, 2025
In the recent film The Critic, adapted from Anthony Quinn’s novel Curtain Call, the eponymous theatre reviewer Jimmy Erskine, as played by Ian McKellen, cannot be...
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Mar 3, 2025
The death of the actor Gene Hackman at the age of 95 has left behind a whole raft of iconic and legendary roles, from Clyde Barrow’s brother (in Bonnie and Clyde) to...
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Feb 24, 2025
In a season five episode of the estimable sitcom 30 Rock, itself based on the goings-on of a network television show closely modeled on Saturday Night Live, the writer and...
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Jan 13, 2025
Roughly up until the heyday of John le Carré, the British spy novel tended to follow an approved pattern. A well-educated but bored man, somewhere between youth and middle...
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Jan 7, 2025
Hollywood has always been addicted to remakes, re-imaginings and straightforward rip-offs of existing films. Sometimes, this can be hugely successful, as the lucrative release...
Nov 17, 2025The results of last night’s Booker Prize – the most prestigious and generous prize for literature in the country – were not entirely as anticipated. In a notably...
Oct 16, 2025At the close of Milos Forman’s Oscar-winning film, Amadeus, the central character, the terminally envious court composer Salieri, declares: ‘I speak for all...
Oct 8, 2025“Eternity’s a terrible thought. I mean, where’s it going to end?” — Rosencrantz, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, 1967 I have met Tom...
Sep 10, 2025Imagine the situation. Either you’re a first-time writer who’s recently acquired an agent thanks to a brilliant idea, or you’re a seasoned pro, about to tackle your...
Sep 8, 2025In the old days of Hollywood, stars and starlets alike were anointed as “It” girls and men. Nobody was ever quite sure what “It” denoted – star quality,...
Aug 14, 2025Weapons, Zach Cregger’s sophomore picture after the acclaimed Barbarian, was a conspicuous success story in its opening weekend: brilliant reviews, an A- CinemaScore from...
Jul 23, 2025When I saw Master and Commander, Peter Weir’s fine adaptation of two of Patrick O’Brian’s novels, upon its initial release in 2003, it was an interesting...
Jun 27, 2025In a largely patchy summer for blockbusters – the excellent 28 Years Later aside – Joseph Kosinki’s F1 stands out for two distinct reasons. The film has arrived at...
Jun 18, 2025One of the most memorable dinners I ever had was about 20 years ago, at a Michelin-starred restaurant in Fitzrovia called Pied à Terre. It’s still going, and indeed...
Jun 3, 2025The death of the novelist David Lodge at the beginning of this year appeared to denote the end of a sub-genre that Lodge, amongst others, had been responsible for popularising,...
May 23, 2025When the eighth and supposedly last Mission Impossible film, The Final Reckoning, is released this week, there will be little discussion of its writer-director...
Apr 25, 2025In the recent film The Critic, adapted from Anthony Quinn’s novel Curtain Call, the eponymous theatre reviewer Jimmy Erskine, as played by Ian McKellen, cannot be...
Mar 3, 2025The death of the actor Gene Hackman at the age of 95 has left behind a whole raft of iconic and legendary roles, from Clyde Barrow’s brother (in Bonnie and Clyde) to...
Feb 24, 2025In a season five episode of the estimable sitcom 30 Rock, itself based on the goings-on of a network television show closely modeled on Saturday Night Live, the writer and...
Jan 13, 2025Roughly up until the heyday of John le Carré, the British spy novel tended to follow an approved pattern. A well-educated but bored man, somewhere between youth and middle...
Jan 7, 2025Hollywood has always been addicted to remakes, re-imaginings and straightforward rip-offs of existing films. Sometimes, this can be hugely successful, as the lucrative release...