Tarantino’s male fantasy rejects your hypothesis
Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood reviewed
Culture
The good, the bad and the ugly in books, exhibitions, cinema, TV, dance, music, podcasts and theatre.
July 30, 2019
Hollywood parrots the Chinese Communist party line
For almost a decade, American cinema has rolled over and had its fluffy belly tickled by grim-faced CCP censors
The Whitney Museum surrenders to the mob
Crying crocodile tears over tear gas ruins a great gallery
July 26, 2019
Will Trump declare war on Sweden?
Mobs attack IKEA, demanding refunds
July 25, 2019
The insufferable wokeness of public art
Tyrannical progressives in municipal governments are inflicting their agenda on us through the medium of sculpture
Instagram is ruining tourism. Could fandom save it?
May we all travel for our own loves, rather than for the ‘likes’ of others
Should a black British actor play Harriet Tubman?
A divisive movie for divisive times
July 22, 2019
Hey Samantha Bee, why don’t you drop out of your show?
The comedienne is calling for anti-war progressive Marianne Williamson to pull out of the 2020 race
July 20, 2019
Trump joins the A$AP Mob
A$AP Rocky needs help, so of course the celebrity-addicted president is stepping in
July 18, 2019
Stranger Things’s third season is self-indulgent
Where season one had the creeping menace of Alien, the mood here is closer to Scooby-Doo
Scarlett Johansson should only be allowed to play Scarlett Johansson in movies about Scarlett Johansson
Actors playing the parts of characters with whom they share no lived experience is nothing new
July 15, 2019
The brief bravery of Scarlett Johansson
Perhaps the actress would be better off playing a tree than a person with convictions
July 10, 2019
Aziz Ansari: Right here and wrong now
Why is politically correct comedy so depressing?
Tristan Priskett reviews: Stranger Things 3
Would it not have led to a more meaningful narrative if the ‘monster’ the Russians had brought into being was in fact climate change?
July 1, 2019
Simon Nye on The Durrells of Corfu
Most of what I know about the Durrell family comes from Nye’s television series
June 25, 2019
Are viewers falling out of love with the Trump presidency?
Watching the Donald used to be unmissable television. What happened?
June 22, 2019
Bob Dylan is rum and cokey
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese reviewed
June 14, 2019
The Unnamable Present with Roberto Calasso
My guest is a peerless explorer of what he calls the modern ‘revolution in the human brain’
June 13, 2019
Black Mirror is broken
It’s a Twilight Zone for Millennials
June 10, 2019
The walk-off songs 2020 Democrats should be using
Less Springsteen, more Britney
My terrifying journey into the dark heart of far right comedy
At a fascist evening, nobody was decent enough to openly express their white supremacy
June 9, 2019
Gorbachev’s war and peace
Meeting Gorbachev reviewed
June 7, 2019
Dr John, eminence gris-gris
In memory of a piano master
June 3, 2019
Love is the drug
The Souvenir reviewed
June 2, 2019
Morrissey hasn’t turned right: our establishment has turned insane
Did the former Smiths frontman ever stop being a provocateur?
May 31, 2019
Transgender dogma is naive and incompatible with Freud
Many observers noticed a tension in LGBT+ ideology between social constructivism and (some kind of biological) determinism
Daenerys did nothing wrong
As a social justice warrior, I identify with her
May 29, 2019
Laura Loomer’s life after cancelation
Dominic Green and Art Tavana discuss the fate of the deplatformed provocateur
May 28, 2019
Swedes in space
Aniara reviewed
