Review of reviews: Books

CARMEN felt that the time had finally come to find out if her dear brother still lived. It had been a long and terrible second half decade in a 10-year war. Mexico had been traumatised, the factions o

In 1943, Hollywood star Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) sent a radio message back to the people of Lambeth – his “fellow Lambethians”, as he called them – remembering the “hard streets” that shaped him, a

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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Comedy historian Robert Ross pays tribute to some of the finest and funniest, but often overlooked, names in showbiz