After that final episode, if you're anything like me, you need to read about it, so here are links to Stateside reaction. • Homeland finale - showrunner Alex Gansa talks Season 6, Carrie’s future and planning the end game: from Variety's Cynthia more
I watched some terrific television over the weekend, and not all of it on television. Much of Sunday I spent at BFI Southbank with two screening programmes of the estimable Missing Believed Wiped project. This is the name that the BFI applies to showings more
So just how excited are we? Homeland S3 starts in the States on Sunday - and a week later, on Sunday 6 October, on Channel 4. In one of my Sunday Links... columns I highlighted the recent Varieties more
Continuing this weekend's British cinema theme (see Ealing before Ealing here), my first recommendation has to be for Xan Brooks' delightful Guardian essay and video A pilgrim's progress: on the trail of A Canterbury Tale. Brooks more
On Friday Netflix made available simultaneously all thirteen episodes of its House of Cards re-make (above). The serial, starring Kevin Spacey and directed by David Fincher, has had a mixed press - Alessandra Stanley for The more
Over the past couple of days there has been a lot of buzz about Snow fall - the avalanche at Tunnel Creek, written by John Branch for The New York Times. But 'written by' is only part of more
My strangest (and most welcome) discovery of the week was the 1929 avant-garde film La perle (above). Thanks to The Forgotten: Never Explain a Mystery, Never Wake a Sleepwalker by David Cairns at the ever-excellent Mubi.com's Notebook, more