Authoritarian states have historically put a lot of effort into using movies for propaganda, sometimes with spectacular results. While the…
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Looking back at the best of 2022
Movie attendances bounced back in 2022 as quantity far exceeded quality. Only 20 exceeded the $1 million mark at the…
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Sherlock’s detective sister
The superiority of what streaming services provide for home entertainment is more obvious when cinemas can only rustle up second-class…
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Legend survives fictional life
The decline of Netflix is an example of Mark Twain’s saying that rumours of his death are greatly exaggerated. A…
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War poet’s survival guilt
It is a conventional view of history that World War I could have been prevented and its tragic legacy avoided….
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