Hollywood

Richard Donner: an underrated director

Suggestions that Donner was a director-for-hire rather than a true auteur are harsh and inaccurate

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Hollywood’s suicidal mission

How Aperture 2025, the Academy’s new set of equality and diversity regulations, will ultimately stifle creativity

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Is Hollywood bullying the next #MeToo?

New revelations about Hollywood producer Scott Rudin are a sad but unsurprising indictment on the entire industry and its practices

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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

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Moping about Muppets: Another humiliation for Disney

The Muppet Show’s widened appeal has become Disney’s Achilles’ heel as the puppet show becomes the latest victim of cancel culture

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Why can Hollywood never get the King Arthur story right?

Like natural disasters, adaptations of the Arthurian legend seem to arrive about once a decade and leave devastation in their wake

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Martin Scorsese vs Marvel: a tale of two different cinematic perspectives

At a time when studios are afraid of investing substantial amounts of money in films without a guaranteed audience, it’s time to ditch the snobbery towards popular films

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Why are so many actors and filmmakers being cancelled?

From Kevin Spacey to Armie Hammer, why are those in Hollywood facing the axe of cancel culture more than ever before?

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The remarkable career of Christopher Plummer

Cinema, theatre and the world will be poorer for no longer having Christopher Plummer as a part of them

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What does the Carey Mulligan controversy tell us about film criticism today?

How one misinterpreted film review may have set a dangerous precedent

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