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If only

Our columnists riff on what things would be like in an ideal movie world
  • Steve Bell's If ... on Johnson spelling out Tory strategy

    Steve Bell's If ...

  • 'Papandreou, he's so square'

    Steve Bell

    Steve Bell's If...

  • Scene from What Just Happened

    If only more exposés exposed more

    As another "insider" movie satire pulls its punches, John Patterson wonders if we'll ever get a Hollywood tell-all that tells all

  • Easy Virtue

    If only Hitchcock had adapted more Noël Coward plays

    Who knew that Alfred Hitchcock once filmed a terribly British Noël Coward stage play? John Patterson wishes he'd made a few more...

  • If only... British prison dramas were as hard-hitting as their American counterparts

    John Patterson

    I'm kickstarting a campaign for real jail - who's with me?

  • If only more actors had to play prostitutes

  • More sleaze, please

    John Patterson
  • If only heroes were a bit less 'super'

  • Bring on the superbums

    John Patterson
  • If only more film-makers were willing to break 'the last taboo'

  • Going down on the farm

    John Patterson
  • If only we had more geriatric heroes

    John Patterson

    What's the greatest adversary a hero must face? Old age, naturally - it saps their very life-force

  • If only it was 1960 again

  • Technicolor dream

    John Patterson
  • Never mind Osama, what about Rumsfeld?

    John Patterson

    If only ... Morgan Spurlock had set his sights a little closer to home. John Patterson suggests a more realistic quarry for the intrepid film-maker

  • If only ... we could call time on the wedding movie genre

  • Grounds for divorce

    John Patterson
  • Special defects

    If only... We had a new Roger Corman. John Patterson bemoans the excess of quality in our cinemas - who's left to put out the trash?

  • Carry on, abroad

    If only... American filmmakers would stop getting twitchy about the enemy without. John Patterson advises a long, hard look in the mirror

  • If only... film-makers would take titles seriously

    Underestimating the importance of a great title is pure folly. How would you remake the films with unsuitable monikers?

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