Film
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
Diversity at the BAFTAs
The BAFTA film awards have seen plenty of diversity in recent years, but have gone down in film history as the least diverse film awards ever. Why?
Wilde encounters
The rambling and discursive nature of the writing lends Rupert Everett’s book an enjoyable appeal
Gaslighting
The origins of the word
The blissful political incorrectness of Soviet comedies
Soviet cinema reveals to the West that life in the USSR was not all grey, unsmiling misery; instead, the Soviets were just like us