Let’s admit that comedy is problematic
Godfrey Elfwick is deeply troubled by Konstantin Kisin’s reaction to a London university’s perfectly reasonable request
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Godfrey Elfwick is deeply troubled by Konstantin Kisin’s reaction to a London university’s perfectly reasonable request
An exhibition in Washington explores the Bard’s influence on the British Prime Minister
Going after Trump is the least subversive act in comedy
Once more, with feeling
Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes reviewed
Academy Awards viewers have dodged a bullet
It’s a mediocre vehicle that promotes Queen’s back catalog and some contemporary virtues
Education is now the most important thing to me, and I don’t want anyone thinking it has something to do with politics
First, they came for the Blues…
The Favourite reviewed
Four legs good, two films bad?
Another Music In A Different Kitchen and Love Bites Deluxe LPs by Buzzcocks reviewed
His films were boring, too
The director Nicolas Roeg, who died on Friday aged 90, was a master of daring, dreamlike cinema — so daring and dreamlike, in fact, that the studios often didn’t know what to do with his films. Walkabout (1971) lost money on its release, but slowly became a cult classic. Bad Timing (1980) so alarmed the … Read more
The politics of dancing
My Brilliant Friend reviewed
The Front Runner reviewed
The Marvel editor-in-chief turned the superhero world upside down by introducing ironic detachment and human foibles
A Private War reviewed
As World War One ended, a slender 29-year-old German dispatch runner named Adolf Hitler lay in a military hospital in Pomerania
Credit to SNL for inviting the veteran on. Well done also to that troll-doll-with-a-tape-worm, Pete Davidson, who ain’t so bad
The White Album is reissued at 50
It feels like a media Democrat’s idea of a shot for the sweet spot and the middle ground
The Other Side of the Wind reviewed
What’s the connection between shrinking profits and being vocally progressive?
Brian Kemp would have to win by several percentage points to quash claims his margin of victory was exceeded by the number of allegedly suppressed Abrams voters
Every time you think you understand him, he does something incomprehensible
Tintoretto looked not up to heaven, but down to the fallen angels of our modern age