By Sara Bright When Jeff Bezos posed a deceptively simple question to his social media followers – Who’d you pick as the next Bond? –…
By Alexander Stone There is a particular kind of Hollywood stardom that does not announce itself. It accumulates – role by role, year by year,…
By Alexander Stone The story of Alan Ritchson’s career reads like a script that no studio would greenlight – a military brat from North Dakota…
By Sara Bright In 2020, Al Pacino died. Not theatrically, not in character, not for the cameras – he actually died, clinically and completely, on…
By Tessa Nolan Something peculiar is happening to Agatha Christie on British television. The Queen of Crime, whose novels have sold more than two billion…
By Sara Bright When Scott Beck and Bryan Woods released 65 in March 2023, the film arrived to a collective shrug from critics and a…
By Maria Bregman, writer and film critic Hollywood finally exhaled. After years of wringing its hands over the death of the theatrical experience and the…
By Maria Bregman I was in Paris when they announced it. The Golden Lion for Father Mother Sister Brother. There was this collective, slightly confused…
By Maria Bregman It was raining on Sunday, which is basically the only tradition the British Academy manages to uphold with any real consistency. The…
For twenty years, Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair existed as cinema’s most tantalising ghost. Quentin Tarantino screened it at Cannes in 2006, then locked…