What real-life mobsters really thought of The Godfather
The FBI saw mobsters emulating the movie – kissing rings, carrying themselves like the characters, and using the term Godfather (which was invented by Puzo – possibly…
How The Godfather saved Brando’s career – and enraged Sinatra
This year, Francis Ford Coppola’s seminal film The Godfather celebrates its 50th anniversary. It is regularly hailed as the greatest picture ever made, and is deeply imbued…
What the arts should do more of – and less of – in 2022
Art Where to start? Enough with “blockbuster” shows that fail to shed fresh light on their subjects. Time, surely, to stop pretending the NFT (non-fungible token) “boom”…
The new Olivia Colman drama set to reinvent ‘true crime’ on TV
“Humankind cannot bear very much reality,” said TS Eliot, but then he never had Netflix. In fact, it would appear that humankind cannot get enough of the…