The Latest From Neil McDonald
For those of us whose schoolboy French is not up […]
Jan 01 2017
9 mins
For those of us who still miss the carefully plotted […]
Dec 01 2016
11 mins
“Films these days move from one spectacular action scene to […]
Nov 01 2016
7 mins
The credibility problem with most of the so-called Golden Age of detective fiction is how the sleuth happens to be sailing down the Nile or travelling on the Orient Express when the murder takes place. In The Thin Man the relationships seem perfectly natural
Oct 30 2016
13 mins
When I read that Kenneth Branagh was going to set […]
Oct 01 2016
7 mins
The 'gentleman cracksman's' exploits are meant to be fun, but they are also blessed by darker textures. With lead characters based in part on Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas, there is a subtle gay sub-text in the originals -- just one of the elements that drew George Orwell's incisive attention
Jul 17 2016
15 mins
When, in the late 1980s, the legendary French director Bertrand […]
Jul 01 2016
11 mins
I first heard about King Hu’s A Touch of Zen […]
May 01 2016
12 mins
Reviewing “live” productions broadcast from theatres in New York and […]
Apr 01 2016
8 mins