Comic Con with a Shakespearean twist
Books and Arts‘Even when the story is dark, Superman still stands for something — and we need more good guys like that’
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‘Even when the story is dark, Superman still stands for something — and we need more good guys like that’
An interview with the director David Anspaugh as his new cut is released
As ever with David Fincher, formalism is very much to the fore
It is now inevitable that there will be a log-jam in post-production facilities
Like her poems, the move makes little sense
The MCU’s Midas touch appears to be dimming
If you thought the rivalry between the Rolling Stones and the Beatles died in 1970, you were wrong
If his legacy ends up being that of ‘tragic Friends actor dies young,’ that is an enormous shame
The movie is a hallucinatory masterpiece
Gavin Casalegno of The Summer I Turned Pretty fame is in hot water
It is impossible not to be swept up in the giddy exuberance of it all
He stands five-foot-seven in his stocking feet, but with Clarence White’s Telecaster slung around his neck, he looks ten feet tall
In our increasingly secular age, we worship rock stars as our deities, as figures who inspire our hopes and dreams and fantasies of excess
Of the four Beatles, Harrison was the most attuned to, and wary of, the mania side of Beatlemania
Cinema’s pet subversive deserves a proper reappraisal
There is, inevitably, a feeling of embarrassment and shame that emanates from institutions after they have been robbed
As Scorsese’s movie prepares to hit cinemas, Tulsa hangs on to its originalist oil history
The Eras Tour ’s success may indicate a path back to profitability for movie theaters, if not movies themselves
Everyone can find their own niche now, but we have so little to talk about together
Early reactions to the revised show have been generally positive
He was one of the finest screen actors of his generation and remains a symbol of American strength
Audiences are not willing to pay their $12 to go and see something new and original
He played countless iconic and legendary roles over the course of a sixty-year career on stage and screen
The secretary of state wants to change the world one song at a time
At first glance, this suggests that business as usual can resume, but the actors’ strike continues
The suspicion remains that the wokery at the show’s heart is being celebrated rather than satirized
Sam Lipman-Stern exposes the entire industry in his frenetic, rip-roaring investigative documentary
He has been given break after break and has done his best with them
CGI is no substitute for glue, tape and ketchup