filmmaking

The adventures of an improbable rock journalist

10 January 2026 9:00 am

Cameron Crowe started writing for Rolling Stone aged just 15. But both as reporter and later as filmmaker, his innate decency made him decidedly ‘uncool’

The inspiration for David Lynch’s mysterious, disquieting world

15 November 2025 9:00 am

A bizarre experience in the filmmaker’s adolescence involving a woman’s escape from domestic violence seems to have left an indelible mark

A hymn to self-loathing: Tibor Fischer’s How to Rule the World reviewed

14 April 2018 9:00 am

Tibor Fischer has a track record with humour. His first novel, the Booker shortlisted Under the Frog, takes its title…