Netflix
The career of David Fincher – not so black and white?
David Fincher’s eleventh film is his most personal and revealing yet
His own best character
A new Netflix release has been trailed as a masterpiece, with myriad claims to Oscar recognition, says Christopher Silvester
How true is The Crown?
The suspicion that it has a partial basis in fact makes the saga splendidly and addictively watchable
Time’s up for licence fee
The BBC must face reality over its future funding
The death of the DVD commentary
How the rise of streaming platforms has killed home entertainment
Break a leg
Woke Oscars tries to cripple the film industry, Stonewall capture the police and the Scottish enlightenment is cancelled
Cuties: how Netflix normalised the sexualisation of children
Netflix’s latest controversy has highlighted another troubling conflict between the Right and the Left
America’s Southern Gothic Moment
Why is the American south still regarded as repository for all the shortcomings of America?
Rave that runs out of puff
Summertime and the streaming is easy, but Netflix’s White Lines leaves Adam LeBor cold
Hollywood or Hollywoke?
Can drama successfully rewrite history to satisfy modern sensitivities?
Scary cute
CUTE, a new exhibition at Somerset House is a deliciously unsettling stroll down the uncanny valley
Grandmasters: a meeting of great minds
Napoleon and Goethe: Touchstone of Genius by Raymond Keene
The joy of pets
Pet ownership is one of life’s simple pleasures, but it also lifts the soul
Chasing votes on foreign soil
Viktor Orbán has created a pipeline of support for his Fidesz political project by granting full citizenship to thousands of ethnic Hungarians in Romania
The Met is watching you
We are passively accepting the development of a society of hyper-surveillance
The meaningless models of “public health”
Another brick in the “public health” fortress of unreality
Are Labour the real racists?
Conservatives should stop trying to play the victim on identitarian grounds
The problem with public sector procurement
The Social Value Act has brought questionable benefits and serious costs
Women in prisons deserve better
Classifying male criminals as women adds insult to injury
Can criminals be judges?
Freemasons, extremists, even members of the Garrick Club can be appointed to the bench
Staying in place
How history and heritage enrich our surroundings
