The fantasy-free Platinum Jubilee reading list is pure literary snobbery
Instead, those few science fiction novels to make the countdown are fuddy-ishly familiar. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams is more smug comic caper…
Bloated, internet-baiting trailers are ruining cinema
One of the problems is that mainstream cinema and TV is more plot-driven than ever before and that has led to a certain amount of paranoia on…
A Tolkien scholar dissects our first glimpse of Amazon’s The Rings of Power
The casting of Latino actor Ismael Cruz Córdova as Arondir, like that of Sir Lenny Henry as a harfoot (not seen in the trailer), raises a point…