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April 25, 2025In the recent film The Critic, adapted from Anthony Quinn’s novel Curtain Call, the eponymous theatre reviewer Jimmy Erskine, as played by Ian McKellen, cannot be...
March 3, 2025The death of the actor Gene Hackman at the age of 95 has left behind a whole raft of iconic and legendary roles, from Clyde Barrow’s brother (in Bonnie and Clyde) to...
February 24, 2025In a season five episode of the estimable sitcom 30 Rock, itself based on the goings-on of a network television show closely modeled on Saturday Night Live, the writer and...
January 13, 2025Roughly up until the heyday of John le Carré, the British spy novel tended to follow an approved pattern. A well-educated but bored man, somewhere between youth and middle...
January 7, 2025Hollywood has always been addicted to remakes, re-imaginings and straightforward rip-offs of existing films. Sometimes, this can be hugely successful, as the lucrative release...
