SIMON MATTHEWS watches Julie Christie and John Hurt In Search of Gregory. Continue reading
Category Archives: Culture
Final Cut: No Room at the Inn (1948)
JONATHAN CALDER on a 1945 child-abuse case and the play and movie that it inspired. Continue reading
Unusual sightings of Daleks
Daleks turn up in the oddest places, notes ALWYN TURNER. Continue reading
Dalek Invasion
It’s sixty years since the Daleks first invaded Earth. ALWYN TURNER on the TV hit of Christmas 1964. Continue reading
Final Cut: Carry On Columbus (1992)
SIMON MATTHEWS on the much maligned (perhaps wrongly) Carry On Columbus. Continue reading
Final Cut: Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957)
Ted Willis didn’t just write Dixon of Dock Green. SIMON MATTHEWS praises his film Woman in a Dressing Gown. Continue reading
Final Cut: Of Time and the City (2008)
SIMON MATTHEWS watches Terence Davies’s rumination on the Liverpool that was. Continue reading
‘Mystery among the muffins’
Miss Marple doesn’t really belong in Swinging London, concludes ALWYN TURNER. Continue reading
Final Cut: He Snoops to Conquer (1944)
George Formby’s up to his tricks in politics, and SIMON MATTHEWS is there to see him. Continue reading
Farewell to the Girls
ALWYN TURNER mourns the decline of the Dagenham Girl Pipers, the band that Hitler coveted. Continue reading
Final Cut: the index
Your A-Z guide to SIMON MATTHEWS’s movie reviews from 80 years of British cinema. Continue reading
Sausages: an anthology
ALWYN TURNER selects some passages from British literature that concern sausages. Continue reading
