Killing Eve

Killing Eve

“You should never tell a psychopath that you’re a psychopath. It upsets them,” says the psychopathic half of BBC America’s new anti-buddy-cop drama. The eight-episode first season, which kicked off in early April, follows MI5 agent Eve (Sandra Oh) and psychopathic...
Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy Heads For TV

Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy Heads For TV

The attempt to turn Isaac Asimov’s sprawling and hugely influential Foundationsci-fi book trilogy is one that has frustrated filmmakers and studios for decades. It’s been mooted as a big screen project several times, but television – particularly the...
Al Pacino on Scarface 35 years later

Al Pacino on Scarface 35 years later

The team behind the crime classic reunited at the Tribeca film festival to celebrate the film’s 35th anniversary with some awkward moments When he declared that the world (and everything in it) was coming to him, the audience cheered. When he shot Robert Loggia (that...
Who are the real losers in Netflix’s war with Cannes?

Who are the real losers in Netflix’s war with Cannes?

The streaming giant has pulled its films out of competition at this year’s Cannes festival, leaving both sides feeling vindicated If you told a time-travelling film critic from, say, 2005 that today’s industry headlines are being dominated by a fierce corporate feud...
Book clinic: do editors often have to cut authors down to size?

Book clinic: do editors often have to cut authors down to size?

by Richard Beswick Overwriting is a common problem among beginners, but it happens to the best of them – ask a professional editor Most writers I know massively overwrite. How common is it for a published author to have had an editor do a big cutting job? Retired...