Malcolm Peel

A TV drama written and directed by Sir David Hare, produced by Sir Nicholas Hytner and starring Ralph Fiennes would be expected to excite any broadcaster. But the award-winning…
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In the opening episode of the third series of Succession, the much-acclaimed TV series about power struggles within a fictional media family, Roman Roy calls his sister Shiv to…
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Alec Baldwin was the tough screen face of blue-collar America in the 1990s. And it suited him. His best early roles were gritty ones in brutal films such as Miami Blues, or the…
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A picture of chaos and concern on the set of Alec Baldwin’s new western, Rust, has emerged from fresh accounts of the lead-up to the fatal shooting during filming on Thursday.Only…
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The staging of the final novel in Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall trilogy has, arguably, been the flagship theatrical event as the West End re-opens after lockdown. One critic described…
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In March of 2020, at the beginning of the first Covid lockdown, Edgar Wright was in post-production on his new movie, Last Night in Soho. With a cast that includes Anya Taylor-Joy,…
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For years, it seemed that the greatest film ever to come from Frank Herbert’s quasi-biblical 1960s sci-fi novel Dune would be a 2013 documentary about the failure to make a great…
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Joe Lycett vs the Oil Giant9pm, Channel 4Comedy’s nice guy Joe Lycett – formerly Mr Hugo Boss – is no stranger to sticking it to big business. For his latest viral stunt, the…
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As an aspiring teenage guitarist, Carl Nichols was drawn to the blues discovered in his mother’s record collection – Robert Cray, Corey Harris – while his hometown of Milwaukee…
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The films of Wes Anderson, with their intricately layered details and fanatically meticulous design, almost invariably reward a second viewing. That is certainly the case with his…
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