Descending into madness, brilliantly

ONE OF THE MOST GRIMLY FUNNY POEMS OF the past century is Philip Larkin’s “This Be the Verse,” with its opening salvo about how our parents invariably mess us up. Larkin used a saltier word for “mess,

SOME DAYS IT SEEMS WE LIVE IN A HORRID WORLD where most humans couldn’t give a fig about art. How many people in that world are going to care about a 65-year-old black-and-white movie—one that, for an

MIDWAY THROUGH MONSTER: THE ED GEIN STORY, the title character stares into the camera and warns: “You shouldn’t be watching this.” He’s talking to two strangers who’ve interrupted him in the bloody af

Robert Hutton on Cinema SAM TAYLOR/NATIONAL THEATRE ● ...

He was born just after Tchaikovsky completed the 1812 Overture and died the month The Beatles released The White Album. But Robert Grainier, whose fictional life story is told in Train Dreams – a new

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