Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
Strong, silent — but still box office gold
Clint Eastwood is as much a part of the American landscape as the Grand Canyon
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
Flawed paean to a heartless auteur
A lack of empathy goes to the hollowness at the heart of so many Kubrick movies
Spilling the beans on the great spymasters
Fantasy is an essential part of what we are pleased to call reality
All action, no abstraction
On the hunks and lunks who dominated two decades of Hollywood
Deconstructing a giant of the screen
For a gay, Hegelian, terrorist-sympathising dialectician, Fassbinder was a rather conservative moviemaker
A shapeless, moving, end in itself
So entropic is Geoff Dyer’s latest that the reader seeks desperately for structure
A square prehistory of popular music
Rock versus pop, and orchestral numbers versus guitar solos
Amour fou of the star-crossed lovers
The relationship between Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh was one of all-consuming passion
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
Let’s scrap the Table Tax
The state should stop using our cafes, pubs, and restaurants as a cash cow
Spirits, a seven-year-old and a death camp
Balancing the gap between what the narrator knows and what the reader does
Beyond the binge
Let’s try subtlety
Gender self-ID was never the law
Barrister Akua Reindorf KC speaks about the controversial trans guidance the government is so loath to implement
Woke politics was never trivial
Wokeness was a lot more, and a lot worse, than a passing online fad
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world