Do mention the war
The Deer Hunter remains the most affecting of Vietnam movies, Christopher Silvester writes
Enemy of orthodoxy
Christopher Silvester reviews Groupthink: A Study in Self-Delusion, By Christopher Booker
The mobster and the Method
Al Capone’s relationship with the movies goes back a long way, writes Christopher Silvester
Lockdown Cinema
Staying frosty in plague times
The BAME killer – why Covid-19 is so serious for ethnic minorities
Is social deprivation the reason, as Sadiq Khan suggests?
Make Woke not Work
Social justice dons are de-skilling the Cambridge English Faculty
Reel hell of the Western Front
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
Polanski Politics
In light of the Césars drama, Christopher Silvester considers crime and censorship in film appreciation
Untrue story of the Kelly Gang
For a folk hero this Ned has zero contact with the ordinary Irish folk who will supposedly come to love him, says Christopher Silvester
Orson Welles and Lockdown’s Radio Renaissance
I’m listening to art made by dead people rather than DIY lockdown productions
The year the music died
It was 40 years ago today: the magnificent swansong of rock and roll
The death of Theatre Criticism
The great critics always began before they were forty. Who are their equivalents today?
The problem with Adam, Eve and Steve
Is Polyamory really a progressive, feminist-friendly modus vivendi?
Is the lockdown causing more problems than it is solving?
And how much longer can Britain’s WWII commemorations endure into the future?
‘A Confederacy of Dunces’ at 40: A book that can change your life
Alexander Larman recalls the glee and disbelief at one of literature’s most beguilingly horrible figures