From Marvel to Star Wars, cinema is rife with big-budget releases that want the kudos of progressivism while refusing to centre LGBT+ stories. On the face of it, Rian Johnson’s ‘Knives Out’ sequel is just another example. Louis Chilton thinks there’s much more to it.
The power players used to sleep on each other’s sofas and couldn’t land a decent role between them. As they launch their own new $100m production company, Geoffrey Macnab looks at their meteoric rise, and says their indie credibility withered long ago
As William Wyler’s 1953 film starring Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck is being re-released early next year to mark its 70th anniversary, Geoffrey Macnab looks at what makes it so special, and says, it has a grit and emotional depth most other romcoms lack
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