SIMON MATTHEWS watches Terence Davies’s rumination on the Liverpool that was. Continue reading
Category Archives: Culture
‘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
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
