Cinema
Killer roles
The Dungeons & Dragons romp-com
Soon to be pulped non-fiction
Quentin Tarantino’s new book is a disappointment
Romcom revival
Making romcoms modern: plausible obstacles to happiness and a broadening of vision
Unlikely auteur of mercy
Dan Hitchens makes the case for film director Shane Meadows as a genius of Christian art
Carry Ons: Phwoar! What a lovely set of hits
Grim, funny glimpses of a Britain in decline
Day of the junta
Political thrillers from South America
Martin Scorsese: rinse and repeat self-indulgence
The director of Goodfellas has debased his talent
A silent crook
The recent restoration of Erich von Stroheim’s Foolish Wives shows that the original movie is astonishingly modern
’Verse averse
The idea that there are multiple universes and that it might be possible to “‘versejump” is surely one way of explaining the cinematic urge
Fair pay is a fiction
Public sector workers are chasing a fantasy
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
October letters
Misquoting Shakespeare and a rounded sense of humour
The opportunism of anti-police activists
Continued agitation around the death of Chris Kaba is inexcusable
The Meloni effect
How the Italian prime minister could reshape European politics
Why Christian culture is essential to education
It deeply informed our art and our ideas
Non-euclidean Toryism
The Conservative Party appears somewhat lost
The strange history of Keir Starmer and assisted suicide
How long, and to what extent, has the prime minister supported legalisation?
What is behind the ECHR debate?
We should stop pretending that moral disagreements can be reduced to technical debates
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
Reject the culture of death
Darkness lies beyond the euthanasia rubicon
