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Power of Madonna
‘Power of Madonna’ is the 15th episode in the Fox TV series, Glee, featuring a show choir or ‘glee club’ in a fictional Ohio high school. The choir tends to attract the quirkier, less popular...
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‘Are You a Jackie or a Marilyn?’
‘Are you a Jackie or a Marilyn?’ is the question posed in ‘Maidenform’, Season 2, Episode 6 of AMC’s Mad Men. First broadcast in 2008, and set in 1961, the storyline concerns on a proposed advertising...
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The Pendle Witch Child
Simon Armitage – one of Britain’s leading poets – was born in West Yorkshire. Like many local children, he would have been raised on stories of the Pendle Witches in nearby Lancashire. A grimly...
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Amy Winehouse: The Day She Came to Dingle
“Amy Winehouse arrived on a wild, stormy night – ready to sing, and ready to talk.” A year after Amy Winehouse’s tragic death, a new documentary has been screened as part of the BBC’s prestigious...
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Sex, Lies and a Very British Scapegoat
Sex, Lies and A Very British Scapegoat was first broadcast on ITV1 on December 22nd, 2013. Presented by the composer and theatrical impresario, Andrew Lloyd-Webber, the documentary marks the end of a...
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TV Review: ‘The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe’
Over at Immortal Marilyn, you can read my review of The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe, a mini-series based on J. Randy Taraborrelli’s biography, which aired on the US Lifetime Channel recently. (Both...
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Thanhouser and the Birth of Cinema
A 52-minute documentary, The Thanhouser Studio and the Birth of American Cinema, will be screened in the US on TCM tonight, July 5, at 9 PM (Pacific Daylight Time), followed by three classic...
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2015: A Year in Film
After his great performances in W.E., Inside Llewyn Davis and The Two Faces of January, Oscar Isaac is fast becoming my favourite contemporary actor. He has gone from strength to strength in 2015, with...
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2016: A Year On Film
My favourite films this year were homegrown, showcasing what British cinema does best – not plummy period pieces, half-baked gangster flicks or corny rom-coms, but cutting-edge dramas with true grit....
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Marilyn Monroe: Auction of a Lifetime
These rare stills are taken from amateur footage filmed in July 1960 by Frieda Hull, one of the fabled ‘Monroe Six’, as Marilyn arrived in New York to make test shots for The Misfits. Miss Hull’s vast...
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BBC Plans Profumo Drama
The Profumo Affair has been the subject of two films (The Keeler Affair, Scandal), several plays, and a West End musical. Now the BBC is planning a six-part drama about the controversy, Yahoo reports....
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Marilyn in Love, and Art
I have written two new reviews for the Immortal Marilyn website. The first, Dead Blondes: You Must Remember Marilyn, covers film historian Karina Longworth’s podcast series from earlier this year,...
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Liz Smith 1923-2017
Liz Smith, the veteran gossip columnist known as the ‘doyenne of dish’, has died aged 94. She was born Mary Elizabeth Smith in Fort Worth, and graduated from the University of Texas with a degree in...
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2017: A Year In Film and Music
For me, this year was dominated by the return of Twin Peaks, reaffirming David Lynch’s status as the most daring filmmaker of our time. Dark, playful and thrilling, it once again pushed the outer...
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Urban Myths: ‘It’s Me, Sugar’
“She was the biggest star in the world; she had a lot of attention on her, a lot of pressure… there is a scene, when she comes to the door, she says, ‘It’s me, Sugar.’ It took forty-seven shots to...
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2018: A Year in Film and TV
I’m lucky enough to live just around the corner from the Duke of York’s, England’s oldest independent cinema; and so this year I made the most of my Picturehouse membership. I like movies that blend a...
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From ‘Soledad’ to Hope, With Lynch and Lana
SOLEDAD is a new journal from my good friend Jeremy Richey, the maestro behind ART DECADES. Soledad is (of course) the Spanish word for solitude, which is one of my favourite things. It can be sad,...
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Artists in Love: Marilyn and Arthur Miller
This article can also be read at Immortal Marilyn Artists in Love is a ten-part documentary series, produced in Italy for the satellite channel Sky Arts, and first broadcast in 2016. Among the famous...
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Dear Christine: A Tribute to Christine Keeler
I can’t remember a time when I didn’t know Christine Keeler. She’s almost a mythical character, like folklore … Dear Christine: A Tribute to Christine Keeler, a new multi-media exhibition of women’s...
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Soledad 2: Twin Peaks, Joe D’Amato and More
The Italian actress Cinzia Monreale lies in her coffin on the cover of SOLEDAD Arts Journal‘s second volume, available now on Amazon for just $6 in the US, or £4.73 in the UK. It’s a still from Buio...
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