Film
Richard Donner: an underrated director
Suggestions that Donner was a director-for-hire rather than a true auteur are harsh and inaccurate
Catholic tastes
Christopher Silvester on films of faith and the canonisation of three children’s divine visions
The Thing: 40 years on
Left to freeze by Thatcher’s censors, The Thing has finally been recognised as John Carpenter’s best film
Star of the sty
Christopher Silvester on a documentary with a solely animalistic cast
Sequel opportunities
What does Amazon’s purchase of MGM mean for cinema?
Indiana Jones is back!
A fifth film is looming, but I really, really, wish it wasn’t
A life in focus
Director Betrand Tavernier was able to admire both blacklisted directors and those who named names
Nomadland takes the hat-trick
From digital streaming to diversity, Christopher Silvester rounds up the longest ever awards season
The finest actress of her generation
How Helen McCrory blazed through her life and career like a comet
Hopkins and Oldman: The very best of British actors
Following the recent Oscar nod for Anthony Hopkins and Gary Oldman, Alexander Larman looks at other parallels between the two thespians
Our illiberal Terrorism Act
People should be censured for their actions and not for their beliefs
Justin’s dilemma
Spears got slutshamed; Timberlake was the stud
Jonathan Glazer’s speech was an affirmation of Jewishness
Critics who accuse him of denying his identity have things backwards
The Midas touch
The kind of skill that makes the breath catch in thousands of throats at once
Go west
Rishi has been a bit down lately
Jamie Tradescant: highbrow sports journalist
Jamie’s articles are not simply a riot of historical and philosophical allusions — no, they are all about style
All smoke and no fire
An Impact Assessment on prohibiting cigarettes is unconvincing
There is a lushness to this expanded Letters
There is frequent reporting of local news, often betraying a hobbit-like
preoccupation with the availability of beer
Their transition too (w/ Emma B)
Children are not secondary characters in their parents’ story
A monumental work on British buildings
Gavin Stamp’s posthumous book is a magnificent tour d’horizon, a bible of the styles available to architects between the wars
Make architecture art again
Attractive architecture should draw from the past while looking to the future
