Has Hollywood lost interest in making sci-fi movies for adults?
Audiences are not willing to pay their $12 to go and see something new and original
Alexander Larman
Alexander Larman is an author and the US books editor of The Spectator.
Monday
Thursday
Michael Gambon was so much more than Professor Dumbledore
He played countless iconic and legendary roles over the course of a sixty-year career on stage and screen
Wednesday
What does the end of the WGA strike really mean?
At first glance, this suggests that business as usual can resume, but the actors’ strike continues
Monday
Sex Education: it’s time class was dismissed
The suspicion remains that the wokery at the show’s heart is being celebrated rather than satirized
Monday
Kenneth Branagh: the luckiest man in Hollywood?
He has been given break after break and has done his best with them
Wednesday
Is a Kevin Spacey comeback possible?
The actor is not going to disappear into the shadows quietly
Tuesday
Has the Taika Waititi backlash finally arrived?
Time for the very talented by increasingly one-note figure to take a sabbatical
Monday
Tuesday
With The Killer, will David Fincher return to his former greatness?
The keepers of the Fincher flame have been disappointed in recent decades
Monday
What does Dune: Part Two’s postponement mean for the movies?
Audiences want to go and see films, but the writers’ strikes are denying them the chance
Monday
The rise of the comic murder mystery
The perfect comfort viewing in these rather more treacherous times
Friday
Maureen Ryan exposes the Hollywood horror show
At the end of Burn it Down , it’s hard not to wish that the industry could simply be shut down and rebooted all over again
Monday
Is the Musk-Zuckerberg cage match off?
The debacle played up to caricatures of both men
Monday
Why didn’t William Friedkin get much credit when he was alive?
There’s more to the late director than The Exorcist and The French Connection
Tuesday
Paul Reubens lived life on his own terms
His strange talent was one that Hollywood could never quite handle
Monday
Oppenheimer and the triumph of Christopher Nolan
The director has made a lot of people a lot of money, so he is allowed to do what he likes
Wednesday
Why What We Do in the Shadows works
A vampire sitcom that doesn’t suck
Monday
Arnold Schwarzenegger is back
With a new Netflix documentary and series, the actor is ubiquitous once again
Friday
What’s happening with the SAG-WGA strike?
We may be seeing the death throes of cinema as we know it
Monday
Napoleon heralds the return of the man’s movie
The recreations of the battles of Austerlitz and Waterloo, among others, look peerless
