As the annual obligatory year-end lists are drawn up, many a great leading role will be the focus of praise and acclamation. It’s important, too, to recognise those who show up and totally dominate the screen for a few minutes apiece in smaller parts, in both film and TV, so…

While the crisis of 2020 provided something of a break in the mainstream movie calendar, with no blockbusters crowding streamers and screens and smaller efforts allowed dominate people’s viewing schedules, 2021 has seen personal cinema once again compete with the Spider-Men and James Bonds of the world for space in…

After a brief, desperate dalliance with merging film and TV into one end-of-year list in 2020, this year I’m happy to once again distinguish the two as the parade of content delivered into our laps ramped up once more. There needs to be two separate lists: it would be an…

Every few years it feels like Sir Ridley Scott is at risk of becoming Hollywood’s definitive journeyman director, leaping from one generic prestige project to another, getting the odd Oscar nomination and building one of the more impressive octogenarian directorial careers in recent memory. But then, like magic, the 83-year…

You’d have to live under a cavernous metaphorical rock to miss the fact that HBO’s Succession returns tomorrow night after exactly two years off air. Either a rock, or inside a cultural vacuum I do not understand. Succession hype is everywhere, and dominating everything. Most importantly, I can feel it…

In the final episode of Apple TV’s Mr. Corman, a ten-part series created by and starring Joseph Gordon Levitt, a character proposes that perhaps the reason the past few years have felt so much more globally distressing than the era that came before is that white men are now facing…