It turns out Leonardo DiCaprio’s Jack Dawson didn’t have to die in the Atlantic after all. We list some other films that take suspension of disbelief a plot point too far
February 2015
Guide daily
Fifty Shades Of Grey: has sex in cinema become boring?
Hollywood’s answer to the sexual excesses of the internet is the steel-and-glass status porn of EL James’s erotic megaseller
November 2014
The 100 best novels
The 100 best novels: No 62 – The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (1939)
Raymond Chandler’s hardboiled debut brings to life the seedy LA underworld – and Philip Marlowe, the archetypal fictional detective, writes Robert McCrum
February 2014
Raymond Chandler – quiz
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Raymond Chandler's arresting new formula for crime fiction
January 2011
Howard Hawks, Hollywood's finest practitioner of everyday chivalry
The Big Sleep – review
December 2010
The Big Sleep – review
The labyrinthine gumshoe movie, with Bogart and Bacall on top form, looks for all the world like something David Lynch might have dreamed up, writes Peter Bradshaw
October 2010
The 25 best crime films of all time
The Big Sleep: No 15 best crime film of all time
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September 2001
LA wakes up from Big Sleep era
Raymond Chandler's mean streets and the lure of the film industry have cast a long shadow over the Los Angeles novel, but Duncan Campbell sees signs of a healthy resurgence in Californian fiction
