Alfred Hitchcock
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Is the book always better than the film? Spoiler: it’s not
- Culture
- November 28, 2020, 05:00
Oh no. The champion of the untrue truism is back. He’s pressing you into the corner of the train carriage and puffing up to bore-for-Europe dimensions(...)

Sean Connery the man has died. Sean Connery the indestructible legend lives on
- Film
- October 31, 2020
It is just two months since Sean Connery, who has died, celebrated his 90th birthday. The appreciations will have given him some sense of how subseque(...)

Lily James: ‘I think I’m too submissive’
- Film
- October 27, 2020, 06:03
The problem with trying to be an actor but also trying to stay sane, says Lily James, is that you need a really thin skin to do the work, and a very t(...)

Netflix’s Rebecca: The new Mrs de Winter isn’t a patch on the first one
- Film
- October 21, 2020, 05:00
There is at least one promising moment (briefly reprised) in Ben Wheatley’s unengaging disinterment of Daphne du Maurier’s most durable melodrama. As (...)

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(...)

Netflix: The best 50 films to watch right now
- Film
- October 10, 2020, 06:00
Savour canny acquisitions and ambitious original productions. And catch the classics while you can. They may not be there next month. There h(...)

City council to investigate Central Bank’s bird scaring device
- Environment
- September 28, 2020, 19:36
The use of a bird-scaring device at the Central Bank building in Dublin’s docklands, which emits amplified recorded bird calls, is under investigation(...)

Room with a view: How David Hockney created digital art for a lockdown
- Art & Design
- July 18, 2020, 05:00
There are many ways in which David Hockney is a prescient genius, but how could he have predicted lockdown? Hockney has been mainly famous for his por(...)

Sex, swearing and flushing the loo: How these films broke big-screen taboos
- Film
- July 2, 2020, 06:00
A degree of kerfuffle is gathering round Alex Thompson’s imminent indie comedy Saint Frances. An argument can be made that it is among the first comme(...)

Julie Andrews: ‘I was certainly aware of tales about the casting couch’
- Film
- May 11, 2020, 06:00
The celebrated actor had a turbulent upbringing before becoming world-famous for playing two perfect nannies. Now she’s bonding with a new generati(...)