SIMON MATTHEWS re-watches a glam-rock revival movie. Continue reading
Category Archives: Culture
Maxwell v Murdoch: the birth of a feud
Foreign ownership of a UK paper? It’s time to remember Murdoch, Maxwell and the News of the World, says PAUL SAFFER. Continue reading
Final Cut: Passport to Pimlico (1949)
Is it time to remake the Ealing classic Passport to Pimlico, wonders SIMON MATTHEWS. Continue reading
Final Cut: Eastern Promises (2007)
SIMON MATTHEWS on David Cronenberg’s thriller about the Russian mafia in London. Continue reading
Now That’s What I Call Music Hall
ALWYN TURNER likes Victorian and Edwardian music-hall songs. These are his favourite lyrics. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: The Blue Talisman
ALWYN TURNER reads an absurd but entertaining tale of Nigeria, London and, er, Atlantis. Continue reading
Final Cut: The Arsenal Stadium Mystery (1939)
SIMON MATTHEWS investigates a murder amidst the ‘prima donna preciousness’ of professional football. Continue reading
Advent of the Daleks
ALWYN TURNER on the first appearance of the Daleks in 1963. Continue reading
Final Cut: Age of Heroes (2011)
SIMON MATTHEWS watches Sean Bean and Danny Dyer tough it out in a WW2 movie. Continue reading
Rear-view review: Train, Train
DAN ATKINSON on a novel from ‘the Other 1980s’. Continue reading
Final Cut: When Eight Bells Toll (1971)
SIMON MATTHEWS watches Anthony Hopkins as a surrogate James Bond in When Eight Bells Toll (1971). Continue reading
Imperial fiction: Blackshirt
ALWYN TURNER on the long-running, if now largely forgotten, thriller hero Blackshirt. Continue reading
