Cinema
Long story short
Movie length seems to have become a way for directors to tell us what serious people they are
A festival for women — and men?
You cannot address the underrepresentation of women by including men
Ghostbusted
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is heroically pointless
Saltburn and the significance of sound
Why has Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s “Murder on the Dancefloor” caught the world’s attention again?
Is it still a wonderful life?
The values Frank Capra celebrated seem to be fading in our times
Enjoyable destruction
Godzilla Minus One may not be especially profound but it is great fun
Michael Powell: an auteur who loved to work with others
In our age of the Saw torture-porn franchise, Peeping Tom still has the capacity to disturb
The beauty and the bomb
Barbenheimer is a true cinematic event
DPRKino
The wonderful world of North Korean cinema
Into thin Air
A pro-capitalist cinematic curiosity
Roger Scruton’s naive nationalism
Cultural nationalism is an ill-fitting model for the modern nation state
Cultural appropriation is here to stay
So-called cultural appropriation is an American obsession, cheerfully ignored by a fast globalising world
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
Have we been barking up the wrong tree?
Mark Rowlands believes that humans have a lot to learn from dogs
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
Release the hounds
The best university sport? Beagling
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
Something has gone very wrong with “human rights”
When the “rights” of foreign sex criminals are being prioritised above the safety of Britons, we need change
“Scottish visas” would double down on two failed ideas
The plan offers the worst of devolution and mass migration in one policy
Belle époque on a plate
The Goring offers a level of enchantment seldom found in the environs of Victoria Station
Hoorah for winter!
Life comes alive again in October when you can start anticipating proper National Hunt racing
