By Maria Bregman, writer, literary and art critic So, it’s finally done. Or at least, the handshake has happened. On Saturday, while most of us…
By Maria Bregman, writer, literary and art critic I was sitting in a coffee shop in Shoreditch the other day, listening to two screenwriters panic.…
By Maria Bregman, writer, literary and art critic I stuck Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men on the TV the other night. I haven’t seen it in years.…
By Sara Bright The Grand Egyptian Museum is opening. The announcement, when it finally came, felt less like news and more like the punchline to…
By Sara Bright So the news comes through about a museum heist in California. And your mind immediately goes to the movies, doesn’t it? The…
By Sara Bright It’s Kim Kardashian’s birthday. And the internet does what it always does. It rolls out the timeline, the highlight reel. The same…
By Maria Bregman I saw another one of those lists the other day. You’ve seen them. ‘Stars Who Grew Up in the Countryside’. It’s a…
The Beautiful Anxious Mess Is Gone. Diane Keaton is gone. And the obituaries will all say the same things. They’ll talk about Woody Allen, of…
By Sara Bright There is a particular quality to the light beneath the Mediterranean, a shifting, green-tinged twilight where the past does not so much…
By Sara Bright The Staple of the Nation There was an unmistakable quality to John Stapleton on screen, a sense of unflappable calm that made…