Gorbachev. Nintendo. Robert Maxwell. All embroiled in the making of an elegantly simple video game that’s served as a blissful time-filler for four decades. As Apple TV Plus releases the biopic ‘Tetris’, James Mottram speaks to the game’s inventor and first key investor, along with the film’s star Taron Egerton
As protesters hit the streets of Paris over President Macron’s attempted pension reforms, Geoffrey Macnab salutes a country that has always used its political uprisings as fodder for great filmmaking
Ahead of the BFI’s Fred & Ginger Day next month, which pays tribute to the famous movie dance duo as part of a Ginger Rogers season, Geoffrey Macnab looks back at the couple’s movie magic – achieved, despite their off-screen tensions, through sheer hard work and sizzling sexual chemistry
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