On Tuesday YouGov published a roundabout set of polls concerning the public attitude towards the House of Lords under the heading 'Most people want fewer politi...
Perhaps it is time to return to university campuses and rally against the ‘unnatural division’ of the continent. It’s worth it for us, Europeans, to revisit ab...
With a fairly straight and narrow plot-line and a hero worth cheering for, it’s easy to like Elaine Constantine’s Northern Soul. And, like 20 000 Days on Earth,...
This past month has given us several films that one could describe as biopics but Tate Taylor’s Get on Up, about the life of James Brown, is certainly the trues...
Having received much validation from historians and those in-the-know, The Imitation Game is ultimately a waste of good source material.
Using a non-linear p...
Mike Leigh’s ‘not technically a biopic’ of the life of William Turner is the work of a true master and, like the work of Turner himself, the film Mr Turner find...
Certainly the best thriller I’ve seen in a while, David Fincher’s Gone Girl is a rare treat that’s not to be missed. What’s more, after it’s premiere at the New...
Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia and Nymphomania Parts I and II have brought him commercial success, David Fincher’s Gone Girl is just over the horizon and Christop...
Because I saw a dress rehearsal, but more so because I love Twelfth Night, I went in wondering if I could be fair. But the English Touring Theatre definitely di...
One-part Sightseers and one part TV’s The Returned, In Order of Disappearance is superbly paced and entertaining film. Some might be put out as it slides from d...
Socialists in England haven’t avoided the tough question over devolution just because the Scots voted No. The caucus still seems split over whether devolution i...
Any docu-fan, any filmmaker or anyone who’s been enjoying what digital cinema has to offer owes themselves a viewing of 20 000 Days on Earth.
Nick Cave conta...
After the New York Times declared S J Watson’s 2011 book Before I Go to Sleep an ‘out-of-nowhere literary sensation’ Ridley Scott was happy to put his name and ...
On the back of my Penguin Classics’ Fathers and Sons Turgenev’s hero is described as “one of the most remarkable figures in Russian Literature”. It continues “...
2013’s Night Moves has opened in UK cinemas; Kelly Reichardt’s first bout of writing since her 1995 offbeat thriller River of Grass. But this time both her dir...
The Dardenne brother’s are back, and they’ve thrown in nothing but the kitchen sink, in this finely cut French-language drama.
Two Days, One Night follows Sand...
Another troubling aspect of James Foley’s death is that he was captured initially in Syria. Already some academics are noticing the stability the Islamic State...
