Film Review
Back in the arena
If you liked Gladiator, you’ll like Gladiator II
The horror of 7 October on film
The killers’ headset footage, CCTV, interviews with survivors and heart-rending last messages
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
Femcel fantasies
“The Substance” is an accidentally revealing film
Eerie decadence
“Blink Twice” accelerates from black comedy to dark drama
Cowboy quartet
A new screen Western is always welcome
A bore film
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is not just ahistorical, it is dull
Reboot camp
In the desperate hunt for stories, adaptations are now all-dominant
Violent delights
It’s 30 years since Pulp Fiction hit cinemas, and what a time it was to be young
This England
We should celebrate the glorious wartime cinematic masterpiece that Churchill wanted to ban
The strange death of the Office for Place
The demise of the Office for Place is a missed opportunity for housing
Trump’s first gambit fails
The Republican candidate was not as effective on the debate stage as he anticipated
October letters
Misquoting Shakespeare and a rounded sense of humour
You reap what you sow
Poor Daniel Zeichner was left to face the outrage that the Budget had caused
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
The Sturgeon delusion
How the former SNP leader inspired hope and then squandered it
Imagine there’s no Gove
Who’s in the room matters, and there were some which would have been better off without Michael Gove
The Church of England has to rebuild trust
The next Archbishop must love this church back into health
Disability is not an identity
Long before trans rights lobby, disability activists were denying biological reality
Explaining reality to Ed Miliband
You can’t ban baking and eat cake
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
