Hugh Grant
Too cautious and wildly over the top at the same time: Paddington in Peru reviewed
Toy Story or The Godfather? Which way would Paddington in Peru go? Would the third instalment of a much-cherished series…
Hugh Grant is an amazingly convincing villain – who’d have thought it?
Heretic is the latest horror film from writer-directors Scott Beck and Bryan Woods (A Quite Place) and stars Hugh Grant,…
In praise of Spectator readers
Michael Beloff, QC and past president of Trinity College Oxford, has just had his memoir reviewed in The Spectator, and…
Is The Undoing properly great or just a run-of-mill thriller with a brilliant casting director?
There must be some people somewhere who vaguely know their own spouses — but if so, they don’t tend to…
Magisterial: BBC1’s A Very English Scandal reviewed
Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little, so you can imagine how sickened I was by the magisterial…
Ivory towers
Great novels rarely make great movies, but for half a century one director has been showing all the others how…
Not a trip to the cinema you’ll bitterly resent – or hugely enjoy: Florence Foster Jenkins reviewed
Before we turn our attention to Florence Foster Jenkins — but if you can’t wait, it’s so-so — I feel…
Why should we listen to Benedict Cumberbatch on Syrian refugees?
Because I just don’t know what to think about the Syrian refugee crisis — not even after Simon Schama’s powerfully…
Rod Liddle: Is Hugh Grant a pawn of the mad metropolitan left?
It is a peculiar alliance, when you think of it, which wishes to bring to an end 300 years of…
