Child’s Play

SFX’s time machine hurls us back to a random month once again

WHETHER PLAYING MALEVOLENT MANIACS OR GARDEN GNOMES, THE SCOTTISH ACTOR HAS CONSTANTLY REINVENTED HIMSELF. AND NOW, WITH HIS DIRECTORIAL DEBUT CALIFORNIA SCHEMIN’ , HE’S REALLY CHANGING THINGS UP

We know Donald Trump thinks of himself as a cinéaste. His method of repeatedly consuming Jean-Claude Van Damme’s gaudy 1988 thump-’em-up Bloodsport by fast-forwarding through the non-fighting scenes –

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I’ve been very lucky in that, for most of my life, I have known what I wanted to do, job-wise. Not exactly born with the knowledge, but laser-focused on it once I realised, some time in the mid-’80s,