To mark the premiere in London of the new Bond film, Spectre, SteynOnline is offering its own quantum of Bondage this week, including Mark's take on Ian Fleming's original 007 novels; a celebration of...
We've been marking the death of Pete Seeger earlier this week with a look at his enthusiasm for mass murderers and at the story behind the song he stole from a talented African who died penniless. So I...
Signs (12A, selected cinemas) Deft manipulation Mark Steyn Signs is a pun. On the one hand, the title refers to the portents of something strange and terrifying in the cornfield. On the other, it also...
Mark Steyn Steamboy PG, selected cinemas Sometimes it’s fun to go back to an era and cast it in the pop vernacular of a later age. For example, there were no comic-book superheroes in Victorian England....
Mark Steyn King Arthur 12A, selected cinemas Ving Arthur is not your father's Round ./X.Table. There's no castles, no sword in the lake, no Mordred, no Holy Grail, no Camelot, no love triangle, no Richard...
Mark Steyn The Constant Gardener 15, selected cinemas The constant gardener is Ralph Fiennes, whose character — Justin Quayle, a minor diplomat at the British High Commission in Nairobi — is a youngish...
Rough rule of thumb: the more an animated movie drones on about the Great Spirit, the less likely it is to have any great spirit. - The Spectator EDIT ...
If the final destination's a bit of a disappointment, getting there is a lot of fun. - The Spectator EDIT Read More ...
For millions of people, Mel Gibson shows them their Jesus and their salvation. - The Spectator EDIT Read More ...
What's good about the movie is the lesser known up-and-corners who play the bright young things themselves, especially the appellatorily appropriate Fenella Woolgar as Agatha - The Spectator ...
Death Wish is a remarkable social artefact, a valuable record of the day before yesterday - 1974 - when New York and many other American cities seemed in large part ungovernable. - The...
As a disaster [movie] ... it's oddly reassuring. - The Spectator EDIT Read More | Posted Feb 2, 2018 ...
To get a franchise going, you need your own style, and this movie hasn't an original thought on anything. - The Spectator EDIT ...
It is ... for all its moments a quintessential Bruckheimer project: a big movie that at its core is just too small. - The Spectator EDIT ...
Outside the rap slams, either the acting or the persona is a bit joyless. - The Spectator EDIT Read More ...
It's the obsession with style that kills this movie. Not that having an obsession with it is the same as having it. - The Spectator EDIT ...
There's an easy confidence about the project. - The Spectator EDIT Read More | Posted Feb 2, 2018 ...
John Moore decided the time was ripe for a new Phoenix, so he sawed the old movie in two, rewrote one half and tries to get it to take off. - The Spectator EDIT ...
This director is a young dog who needs some new tricks. - The Spectator EDIT Read More | Posted Feb 2, 2018 ...
The quaintly hand-painted cityscapes of Syracuse are pretty. It would be nice if there was something going on in the foreground. - The Spectator EDIT ...
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