Why America loves a braggart
Donald Trump’s fans don’t care if he stretches the truth – they admire him for it. From the days of the Wild West, American culture has celebrated boasters and hoaxers
Donald Trump’s fans don’t care if he stretches the truth – they admire him for it. From the days of the Wild West, American culture has celebrated boasters and hoaxers
Every actor with something to prove longs
to play a character like Travis Bickle. But
forty years after “Taxi Driver” was made,
Robert De Niro has yet to meet his match
With America fixated on the coming election, Tom Shone nominates six vote-winners for the screen
An increasing number of film-makers are experimenting with virtual reality. But will a medium that makes its audience feel car-sick ever take off?
A supernatural thriller set in blue-collar America, “Midnight Special” proves its director Jeff Nichols is a minimalist master working in a maximalist genre
When is a work of art finished? A new exhibition explores the stories behind incomplete paintings. In doing so, it captures the essence of modernity
Bored with the pleasures of Hollywood, Christian Bale’s sleepwalking prince is led astray in Terrence Mallick’s answer to “La Dolce Vita”
As the race to Best Picture enters its final stretch, Tom Shone makes his final predictions
Why Iñárritu’s brutal Western will pip “Spotlight” to the Best Picture Oscar
The new HBO series captures the excesses of the music industry in Seventies New York. But it’s a shame he’s played this tune before
