Film
The contested legacy of “Rocky Horror”
How should we interpret a film that is much more than a light-hearted camp classic?
Megalomania
Megalopolis is a gaudy, self-indulgent mess
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
Perfect victims and a tale of two films
Don’t idealise victims — listen to them
Ozi the Orangutan is no Winnie-the-Pooh
A misguided attack on palm oil production is enough to make you facepalm
Eerie decadence
“Blink Twice” accelerates from black comedy to dark drama
Cowboy quartet
A new screen Western is always welcome
The unorthodox Englishness of Derek Jarman
The filmmaker was too complex to be reduced to a mere iconoclast
A bore film
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is not just ahistorical, it is dull
Kimchi culture
A new gallery pursues a pungent kind of artistic and intellectual renewal
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
Good, mostly clean, fun
The Boys from Syracuse, Upstairs at the Gatehouse
“Trope” is not a synonym of “lie”
You cannot dismiss an argument by calling it a trope
Embrace your inner exile
How can we appreciate art in alienating times?
World Government or Peoples’ Governments?
As the nation state system falters, we are faced with a choice between centre and periphery
Labour’s timebomb
This one-term Labour government will bequeath a wretched economic mess
The bizarre campaign against Physician Associates
The interests of doctors are being elevated above the interests of patients
International Society for Libdem Consciousness
It’s a cult, but at least it’s one of the cheerful ones
Imagine there’s no Gove
Who’s in the room matters, and there were some which would have been better off without Michael Gove
