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
Alexander Larman
Alexander Larman is an author and the US books editor of The Spectator.
Monday
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
Wednesday
Sound of Freedom goes where mainstream Hollywood doesn’t dare
It shares with Taken a belief that vulnerable, impressionable children should not be allowed out of their parents’ sight, for fear of the worst happening
Wednesday
With Flamin’ Hot, Hollywood again makes a hero of the businessman
Remember when Big Business was the bad guy?
Sunday
Why is George Orwell so difficult to pin down?
The writer is an easy man to admire and sympathize with, but a hard one to like
Thursday
The Flash and the downside of hype
This is not an isolated example of hype over achievement
Thursday
The expendable Expendables: how has Hollywood’s least essential franchise persisted?
It is unclear who the target audience of these desperately unnecessary films is
Monday
Can Armie Hammer stage a comeback?
The LA County DA’s office said he will not be charged with any crimes
Monday
Succession gets the satisfying finale it deserves
The Roys bow out in style
Sunday
Where will the vogue for censoring our best-loved authors lead?
It seems that the ‘revised’ titles are likely to become the norm
Saturday
Martin Amis’s death is the end of a great British comic tradition
The novelist leaves a distinctive and distinguished legacy
Friday
Does Johnny Depp have a future in Hollywood?
This most quixotic of performers doesn’t seem at all bothered by his fall from grace
Wednesday
Mission: Impossible makes the Daniel Craig Bond movies seem anemic and dull
The Craig films appear ‘made by people who are embarrassed to make a Bond film’
Monday
The National is the next great American rock band
So much more than America’s Radiohead
Tuesday
Judy Blume steps on the J.K. Rowling landmine
It went badly, as might be imagined
