Film Review
Belfast boy
Christopher Silvester reviews two semi-autobiographical movies: Oscar-contender Belfast and arthouse The Souvenir
Eternally complicit, hell-fired thugs
Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast transcends the identity strait jacket
Awful states
Two political thrillers reveal the intimate cruelties of life under dictatorship
Forgotten films
Streaming services contain a wealth of overlooked foreign-language war stories
Red pill, blue pill
Is The Matrix best judged as cinema or cultural phenomenon?
Victim at sixty
How much has really changed in the film industry since the Dirk Bogarde film “came out”?
Do mention the war
The Deer Hunter remains the most affecting of Vietnam movies, Christopher Silvester writes
Greater Polish representation with subverted expectations
Ben Sixsmith reviews My Friend the Polish Girl
For Heaven’s sake, not Robert Jenrick
He’s the ideal candidate if you want the Conservatives to lose
Sheikhs on a train
Patronising foreign people, and other progressive trends
British broadcasting capitulation
Editorial standards have been thrown out, and anti-white discrimination embraced at the BBC
England’s forgotten football dystopia
The beautiful game is not fit to be a national religion
Church visits and garden walks
From sumptuous architecture to delightful landscaping
Living the good life
The rising middle classes were decisive in shaping the late 19th century English town
Yachts wrong with the world
Donald Trump, whiteness, superyachts and other evils
Foul play
David Peace’s new novel is about much more than football
Save us from the menopause mystique
“Menopausal” products make life more rather than less alienating
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
JD Vance’s tech policy is a MAGA microcosm
Does JD Vance hope to restore the Jeffersonian tradition of freedom?
