Netflix has just made Mad Men available on streaming, just in time for the announcement that shooting for the long-awaited season five is due to start next week. This, of course, led my editor to...
In the week since the death of English singer Amy Winehouse much newsprint, or the virtual equivalent, has been spent on her struggles with substance abuse. The analysis of her music, such as it is,...
It would be fair to say that neither I nor anyone else expected the sheer volume of the reaction to last week’s piece on Hermione Granger. It was a silly idea, one I submitted to my editor almost...
Badlands, Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line, The New World, and The Tree of Life - with only 5 films directed in the last 40 years Peter Biskind was on the money when he called Terrence Malick,...
When The Book of Mormon opened on Broadway in March, it became an immediate commercial and critical success. Since the show is sold out for some time and scalpers are commanding upwards of nine...
Damon Galgut’s novel, In a Strange Room, did not win the Man Booker Prize last October. It lacked the novelty of Emma Donoghue’s powerhouse, Room, the historical significance of Andrea Levy’s...
Su Tong, Madwoman on the Bridge, Transworld Publishers, 2008. Su Tong is a Chinese author who has gained international recognition for his work, recently being nominated for the Man Booker...
“The newly rich are doing well but we old rich are the new poor.” So sayeth the fifty-something Anne Mette, in just one of her many Oscar Wilde-like bon mots. The younger half of the female...
The Honey Killer at London Independent Film Festival Dontcha just hate well-heeled City boys? Those untouchable masters of the universe. They’re still cock of the wall despite losing your money,...
Judy Chicago and Frances Borzello, Frida Kahlo: Face to Face, Prestel Publishing, 2010 The name “Frida Kahlo” tends to provoke a passionate response among art fans and feminists alike. At...
