In the wake of the news that Ian Fleming’s 007 books are being rewritten for modern audiences, Geoffrey Macnab argues that we’re mature enough to see racism and sexism for what it is. Today’s progress is good, but censorship of the past, he writes, is hardly necessary
As the new film ‘BlackBerry’, about the group of Canadian misfits who designed the BlackBerry phone, premiers at the Berlin International Film Festival this week, Geoffrey Macnab looks back at the wave of 1980s nerd movies and asks, is the genre making a comeback?
The 1993 time-loop movie is being celebrated this week at the Berlin Film Festival to mark its 30th anniversary. Geoffrey Macnab looks back on the film that appealed in equal measure to kids, Nietzschean philosophers, misanthropes and old-fashioned romcom fans
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