Frank Capra

What kind of Christmas songs are Jingle Bells and Winter Wonderland? Funny you should ask

It’s a swizz: both belong to a large class of winter songs that have been shuffled cynically on to the Christmas playlist

Sun Dec 15 2024 - 05:00

Don’t blame social media for people’s partiality to nonsense

US Politics: Great torrents of quackery wash through Facebook, but so do facts about vaccine efficacy

Tue Jul 20 2021 - 13:58

Paddington 2 the ‘Greatest Film Ever’? Giving any film that tag is not worth the effort

Donald Clarke: Rating what movie is best is fun, but a waste of intellectual energy

Sat May 01 2021 - 05:00

A Christmas Story never took off here, but its time will come

Some US films fail to travel – Bob Clark’s 1983 comedy, however, is worth your attention

Sat Dec 19 2020 - 05:00

No more sex scenes: Film-makers advised to revert to chaste style of golden era

There’s a touch of pearl-clutching in report aimed at keeping ‘intimacy’ safe in the pandemic

Thu Aug 20 2020 - 13:28

Irresistible: Soft-focus political satire in small-town America

Review: Jon Stewart directs a witty and neatly drawn look at politics and big money

Fri Jun 26 2020 - 05:00

Banzai Japan! A country wraps the world in its unique embrace

Tournament sometimes dwarfed by the scale and beautiful strangeness of its host country

Sat Sept 28 2019 - 02:00

Trial over diet drug that led to deaths of ‘up to 2,000’ begins in France

Servier accused of knowingly marketing Mediator despite apparent heart and lungs hazard

Mon Sept 23 2019 - 19:41

Of course Darth Vader voted for Trump. Get over it, libs

Donald Clarke: All the Friends voted Democrat, right? No wonder the party is in trouble

Fri Nov 09 2018 - 05:00

“I said ‘I’m in the movie,’ and the guy on the gate said 'Yeah sure, me too' ”

Veteran character actor Richard Jenkins (70), who shared the screen with Newman and Pacino, is finally ready for the limelight

Fri Feb 09 2018 - 10:47

Tom Hanks: The most famous man we know nothing about

The actor has written a book of short stories. Do they contain any clues to the real man?

Sat Oct 28 2017 - 05:00

2016: The 50 best films on Netflix

While some movies have vanished from the streaming service, many have arrived and there are plenty to fill the summer evenings, from comedy classics like ‘Airplane’ to thrillers such as ‘Winter’s Bone’

Fri Jul 29 2016 - 12:30

Marina Hyde: José Mourinho fast becoming much ado about nothing

The Chelsea manager is hardly the leading player in a Shakespearean tragedy

Wed Dec 16 2015 - 23:01

Maureen Dowd: Be warned, young people have strokes too

Fit, healthy and not one to overindulge, my niece Tara was an unlikely victim

Mon May 04 2015 - 01:00