The truth is, I wasn’t ready to like Down Cemetery Road. That’s because I am always wary of lightning when it attempts to strike twice. We already have a hit and a treasure in Slow Horses, which...
Time is strange - startlingly real to the human body, and not real at all if you’re trying to reconcile the theory of relativity with quantum mechanics. Twenty five years have passed since Mark...
Even in sepia Robert Redford’s eyes are Pacific blue. Californian azure. The truth and the lie. He’s the Santa Monica pretty boy no one wanted for Sundance; that’s no cinematic legend playing...
The final months of 2025 are packed with some of the most promising movies of the year. From James Cameron's highly anticipated Avatar: Fire and Ash to Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein and Scott...
At what age should you put aside your childish ambitions, your youthful dreams, your hopes of stardom? When should you admit defeat, admit failure, submit to adulthood? Mid 20s? Early 30s? Never? In...
“The actor is a moving space” Michelangelo Antonioni told his star Jack Nicholson, the actor most identified with the New Hollywood of the 1970s. In The Passenger, Nicholson takes Antonioni at...
Mitchell Lichtenstein's 2007 horror-comedy Teeth is transgressive and it’s hilarious. It's kind of terrible, but as part of that brilliant cinematic genre of good-terrible, resulting in a feminist...
Netflix’s Untamed has just been renewed for a second season, which is terrific news for those of us who obsess over the beauty of the American West. When it came out, I was surprised to read some...
This month, with the summer vacations in mind, we let ourselves be carried away by stories that encourage us to travel without leaving home. The books we recommend cover routes as diverse as they are...
After the finale of The Handmaid’s Tale this year, it didn’t take long for disappointment to surface on social media, with some viewers calling the last episode “awful.” However, that...
