Van Morrison is a sane man in a mad world
The Morrison cancel mob are dancing to the tune of the oligarchy that is trashing American democracy
The good, the bad and the ugly in books, exhibitions, cinema, TV, dance, music, podcasts and theatre.
The Morrison cancel mob are dancing to the tune of the oligarchy that is trashing American democracy
Hawkwind played notes from underground, but they had a global influence
Diversity drama at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association could prove fatal
Everything seemed so dated
Still, I hope he kills it
Castellano and Castaldo descended upon Narrowsburg with a gust of wind, declaring that they would open an acting school, start a film festival and make it ‘the Sundance of the East’
For those of us who have followed Korean film for many years, the triumph of Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite, Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden or the living-dead series Kingdom on Netflix came as no surprise
For Cousteau, scientific investigation, combined with the potential for good image-making, presented an unavoidable hazard to sea life
In the Eighties, Japan had prosperity, optimism, loads of bizarre porn and the solace of technological gadgetry
How do you rein in the overactive bits of Manfred Honeck’s imagination without driving him away?
Part of what makes them special is the depth of their catalog
Hats off to the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond. They’ve discovered a new form of racism. Some people say we have enough ethnic division already but in south-west London they’re gagging for more apparently. A new play, Prodigal, examines the prejudice endured by a Ugandan chap whose mother moved to London when he was a
Shouldn’t my tastes have evolved in the past 13 years?
Poor Chet Baker. He really was born to be blue
As he collects nearly two decades of essays and criticism, Marco Grassi recalls a life in the art world
Robert Redford’s film festival goes virtual
Ken Burns’s Hemingway is a pleasant surprise
There probably is something here for everyone. But maybe only one thing
One hundred years on from the seminal Chaplin flick
‘Audiences worldwide want to be challenged, not dumbed down and patronized,’ says Tom Six
Rebellion used to be sexy, and bad used to be so, so good
Frederic Raphael wrote the script for Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut. Now he writes a personal letter to the director’s shade
Raised by Wolves reviewed
Whatever happened to the heroes?
Why can black actors play white roles but not the other way around?
Gates never once uttered the words ‘genocide’, ‘extermination’ or even ‘ethnic cleansing’ to describe Ottoman atrocities
Stupid Cupid or cancel-culture victim?
What Joss Whedon’s downfall tells us about the application of morality
Hopefully she can now reprogram herself to think only correct thoughts