The special relationship between the UK and USA – on rails? SIMON MATTHEWS investigates. Continue reading
Category Archives: Culture
Final Cut: Hampstead (2017)
SIMON MATTHEWS on a rom-com that could have been so much more. Continue reading
Final Cut: Ships with Wings (1941)
‘Get up, you filthy Hun!’ SIMON MATTHEWS watches a 1941 classic war movie. Continue reading
Final Cut: Murder, She Said (1961)
SIMON MATTHEWS on Miss Marple, The Mousetrap and Margaret Rutherford. Continue reading
Final Cut: Beau Brummell (1954)
SIMON MATTHEWS revisits a fictional account of the greatest dandy of them all. Continue reading
History cops: Endeavour
So what do we learn of British history from watching the period cop show Endeavour? ALWYN TURNER is our guide. Continue reading
Final Cut: The Blockhouse (1973)
SIMON MATTHEWS on Peter Sellers’s 1973 excursion into art-house movies. Continue reading
Final cut: Juggernaut (1974)
SIMON MATTHEWS on a state-of-the-nation movie for a nation that wasn’t watching. Continue reading
Remembering Chirgwin
ALWYN TURNER on one of the greatest stars of the British music hall. Did he really influence Alice Cooper? Continue reading
Halloween hits: I’m the Man that Buried Flanagan
Exhumed from the vaults for Halloween, here’s a 1911 song by Billy Williams. Continue reading
‘A sinister, if gifted buffoon’
SIMON MATTHEWS on Aleister Crowley – magician, poet and 73rd Greatest Briton. Continue reading
‘As if to take the piss…’
ALWYN TURNER on the FA Carling Premiership, Fever Pitch and the realisation that everything had gone wrong. Continue reading
