Hollywood
Hollywood whinge-fests undermine contemporary feminism
Hollywood is often a slimy, cynical business, but weaponizing feminism against a critic you don’t like is a new low
The unkindest cut
Why can’t film directors let their work go?
His own best character
A new Netflix release has been trailed as a masterpiece, with myriad claims to Oscar recognition, says Christopher Silvester
The rise and fall of Johnny Depp
Now that Depp has lost his libel case, it is now widely believed that his career is all but over
Sean Connery: the man beyond Bond
Who was the “real” Sean Connery?
Teens on screen
The coming of age genre is experiencing a renaissance
Disclaimer: Mel Brooks is cancelled
HBO attempts to protect snowflakes from Blazing Saddles
How Hollywood managed to celebrate German culture in 1954
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s musical coming out just nine years after the end of World War II invited Germany back into polite society
Hollywood or Hollywoke?
Can drama successfully rewrite history to satisfy modern sensitivities?
Adventures in La-La Land
Simon Callow reviews A Fate Worse than Hollywood by David Ambrose
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
England is not yet lost
Where else would you rather be from?
The far enemy
The motivations for the 9/11 attacks are still misunderstood and moralised
Kemi’s men of mystery
The second tier Conservatives had a chance to shine
The end of art critics
The critics who are now lackeys of the art world
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
Murders for November
Another mélange of murders, from Japan to Scotland
The effects of Brexit are still being misreported
A new paper has received a lot of attention — all of it undeserved
The French far right are losers
Will Rassemblement National will ever be the ruling party?
Cynical in Venezuela
The corruption and incompetence of its political system seeps into the soul
Journeys in Genderland
The stories of people caught up in the madness of gender ideology are beyond belief
