Christopher Silvester

Christopher Silvester reviews Groupthink: A Study in Self-Delusion, By Christopher Booker

Al Capone’s relationship with the movies goes back a long way, writes Christopher Silvester

Staying frosty in plague times

Is social deprivation the reason, as Sadiq Khan suggests?

Social justice dons are de-skilling the Cambridge English Faculty

The director wanted to show things as they were – badly-led, no one wanting to fight or knowing what they were fighting for, says Christopher Silvester

In light of the Césars drama, Christopher Silvester considers crime and censorship in film appreciation

For a folk hero this Ned has zero contact with the ordinary Irish folk who will supposedly come to love him, says Christopher Silvester

The most successful modern actor-director, Clint Eastwood, rejects “the auteur crap”