In his passionate advocacy of John Osborne, Arnold Wesker and the other “angry young men”, Kenneth Tynan denigrated the popular dramatists of his day, Terence Rattigan, Rodney Ackland and NC Hunter. Hunter’s plays, in particular, were dismissed as bloodless, sub-Chekhovian studies of middle-class angst. Only the last part of that […]
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It did make me wonder if they were running out of material, though. The film’s most memorable sequence involves a live-action cat clambering up a skyscraper while rampaging through a plastic metropolis. You could take this to be a reference to Godzilla or King Kong, Warner’s original creature feature. But […]
But after English-language remakes of Insomnia, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and Let The Right One In, Hollywood began to lose its taste for “Nordic noir”. So when Martin Scorsese pulled out of The Snowman, the first film based on Jo Nesbø’s Harry Hole series, it fell to Swedish […]
In Heisenberg: The Uncertainty Principle (the title is a philosophical red herring), two strangers meet at a station and embark on a relationship that is at once utterly unbelievable and drearily predictable. Georgie (Anne-Marie Duff) is a kooky American of the kind that is, thankfully, only encountered on stage and […]
Directed by Douglas Rintoul, with a stark war zone setting by Cordelia Chisholm, it takes time to get to grips with the typically baroque plot. Prince Dardanus, son of Jupiter, is in love with Iphise, daughter of his enemy King Teucer. She is betrothed to her father’s new ally Anténor […]
When Ziggy played The Marquee Club in Soho, London, in October 1973, most people could never imagine this would be the last time. David Bowie had created one of the most iconic and game-changing figures in modern pop culture but was about to leave behind his alter-ego forever. The star […]
The Star Wars community has been going over the Last Jedi main trailer with a fine-tooth comb. One eagle-eyed fan has spotted an extraordinary detail which may accurately predict the timeline of the movie by comparing it with the other footage already released, most notably the behind-the-scenes video and photographs […]
Terry is hoping he can break the X Factor curse that has left many previous winners tumbling from their thrones with tarnished crowns. For every Leona Lewis there has been a Leon Jackson and the odds are sadly not in Terry’s favour. Terry spoke of today’s single release and said: […]