ALWYN TURNER mourns the decline of the Dagenham Girl Pipers, the band that Hitler coveted. Continue reading
Category Archives: Culture
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
Final Cut: The Exception (2016)
SIMON MATTHEWS is impressed by a movie with Christopher Plummer as the Kaiser and Eddie Marsan as Himmler. Continue reading
The retail Altamont: the fall of Biba
60 years since the Biba boutique opened its doors, ALWYN TURNER remembers its fall. Continue reading
Rear-view review: Bloody Margaret
DAN ATKINSON revisits some Thatcherite fantasies by Mark Lawson. Continue reading
Final Cut: Alf’s Button Afloat (1938)
SIMON MATTHEWS watches the Crazy Gang and wonders whether they’re still funny. Continue reading
Final Cut: Four Dimensions of Greta (1972)
SIMON MATTHEWS watches Robin Askwith, Richard O’Brien and Leena Skoog in a 1970s sexploitation pic. Continue reading
‘Cathedrals are cathedrals’: the first 25 years of Talk Sport
From Caesar the Geezer to Covid, via the Two Mikes and the mighty H&J, ALWYN TURNER celebrates TalkSport radio. Continue reading
Final Cut: Hammerhead (1968)
SIMON MATTHEWS on the one movie excursion of Charles Hood, a wannabe James Bond. Continue reading
Final Cut: Yellowbeard (1983)
Ahoy, shipmates! SIMON MATTHEWS has things to say about Graham Chapman’s pirate movie, Yellowbeard. Continue reading
Final Cut: Manuela (1957)
SIMON MATTHEWS watches a prime piece of colonial fiction from just before the Winds of Change. Continue reading
