Drag Me to Dinner review – so stressful and chaotic, it makes The Bear look like a picnic
There are far too many chefs in the kitchen for this new cooking show – if you can call it that – following drag queens. I couldn’t stomach more than a couple of episodes
November 2022
Week in geek
Nazis in space: how Paul Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers brilliantly skewered fascism
A Hollywood studio is rumoured to be remaking the Dutch director’s 1997 space epic. But will it, like so many others, miss the irony behind the film’s pseudo-fascist bombast?
July 2022
TV review
Uncoupled review – Sex and the City’s creator should do better than this lifeless drama
Neil Patrick Harris’s charming turn as a newly single gay man in New York can’t stop Darren Star’s slow, derivative and poorly plotted drama from feeling flat
April 2022
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent review – Nicolas Cage is Nicolas Cage
Going full meta: Nicolas Cage and the actors who love playing themselves
December 2021
The Matrix Resurrections review – drained of life by the Hollywood machine
‘No one loves the extreme more than me’: Neil Patrick Harris on ‘dad life’, desire and Doogie Howser
November 2021
'His songs are like a fabulous steak': an all-star toast to Stephen Sondheim
Netflix drops ‘hurtful and derogatory’ Latina housekeeper role from Neil Patrick Harris sitcom
January 2017
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events review – fabulous steampunk fun
The wacky tale of the Baudelaire orphans comes to life in Netflix’s funny, Burtonesque series that’s loyal to the books – and just as whipsmart
December 2015
TV and radio blog
NBC cancels Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harris and signals the end of the variety show
The decision to not renew the Ant and Dec-inspired show reveals a slowly truth dawning on US TV executives: variety shows are dead
September 2015
Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harris review – a spectacular TV coup
Best Time Ever: how Neil Patrick Harris can make Tuesday the new Saturday
July 2015
Film blog
When the laughter stops: how sitcom stars have fared in Hollywood
Patrick Dempsey and Neil Patrick Harris pay tribute to Amanda Peterson
May 2015
TV upfronts: NBC shies away from comedies as Fox enters the post-Idol era
Famous for hits like Friends and Seinfeld, NBC is now looking to drama, while Fox finally cancels American Idol and bets on new scripted shows
March 2015
Oscar telecast producers end three-year stint in charge of ceremony
Neil Patrick Harris: 'I don't know if my family or soul could take another Oscars'
February 2015
Neil Patrick Harris's Oscars stint achieves lowest ratings since 2009
