John Carpenter
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Joe Dante: You have to give a movie time to age, like wine
- Film
- October 20, 2020, 05:00
Joe Dante’s entry into the film business was so cartoonish it might easily be a scene from a Joe Dante movie. Arriving in California as an aspiring ed(...)

50 scary films to watch at Halloween
- Film
- October 18, 2020, 06:00
No Halloween parties. No trick-or-treating. What else is there to do but scare ourselves silly watching some terrifying films? Below you’ll find 50(...)

Duke and Duchess of Cambridge lay wreath at Garden of Remembrance
- Irish News
- March 3, 2020, 17:28
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge invoked the historic and sometime painful relationship between Ireland and Britain on Tuesday when they laid a wreat(...)

Stranger Things ‘meddling kids’ have worryingly gone full-1980s
- Culture
- July 5, 2019, 06:00
The teenagers in Stranger Things are far too quick to blame the interdimensional shadow monster for what’s gone wrong in their community of  (...)

French social discontent gets a look-in at Cannes
- Film
- May 17, 2019, 05:00
Here’s a question nobody seems to be asking. What effect have the gilets jaunes disturbances had on the Cannes film festival? The last time the bash b(...)

Fiona Glascott: On My Culture Radar
- Culture
- December 1, 2018, 05:00
Favourite current book? I just read Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. It’s about an old lady in America who’s in her 60s or 70s. The book is (...)

The best horror movies of all time – see them if you dare
- Film
- October 30, 2018, 11:00
At any random point in the last century, somebody, somewhere has been writing an article on “a new golden age for horror”. Meanwhile, somebody else wa(...)

Halloween at 40: The ‘horrible idea’ that became a horror classic
- Film
- October 15, 2018, 12:05
John Carpenter had only shot and scored two semi-obscure features when the film producer Irwin Yablans came to him with a proposal: make a low-budget (...)

Sean Dyche hopes Burnley can find a way through the fog
- English Soccer
- September 21, 2018, 22:30
Last season’s overachievers Burnley sit bottom of the Premier League with a single point from five games. Should they lose to fifth-placed Bournemouth(...)

Space Dimension Controller: ‘I can get really silly in my DJ sets’
- Music
- August 16, 2017, 14:00
As Space Dimension Controller, Jack Hamill has cultivated a style of electronic music that is indebted to synth-led cinema scores, the electro-funk ra(...)