I took my daughter to see Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour
It is impossible not to be swept up in the giddy exuberance of it all
Alexander Larman
Alexander Larman is an author and the US books editor of The Spectator.
Monday
Friday
Age is catching up with our much-beloved musicians
In our increasingly secular age, we worship rock stars as our deities, as figures who inspire our hopes and dreams and fantasies of excess
Monday
Is Taylor Swift ushering in a new era for movie theaters?
The Eras Tour ’s success may indicate a path back to profitability for movie theaters, if not movies themselves
Tuesday
Were we all wrong about Frasier?
Early reactions to the revised show have been generally positive
Monday
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
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
