Chris Rogers
‘Patriots’ at the Almeida Theatre
For a powerful man to claim ‘I have the country’s best interests at heart’ is easy; assessing whether he is right is rather harder. When...
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Chris Rogers
- Jul 19
- 8 min
Screen saver
Today the British Film Institute regains control of the IMAX cinema it built at Waterloo twenty years ago, a decade after being forced by...
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Chris Rogers
- Jun 25
- 4 min
"Things you people wouldn't believe..." Blade Runner at forty
Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, initially unsuccessful but now an accepted classic and hugely influential, was released four decades ago...
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Chris Rogers
- Jun 11
- 5 min
Hello darkness, my old friend
You might think you know Walter Sickert, creator of dark interiors suggesting darker deeds. But as I found at Tate Britain’s current...
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Chris Rogers
- May 31
- 3 min
What if… the Blitz had missed the Square Mile?
Eighty years ago Nazi Germany’s bombing offensive devastated the City of London, then as now the financial centre of the British capital....
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Chris Rogers
- May 26
- 3 min
BBC What four
For a while in the 2000s it looked like Canadian comedian Mike Myers, of all people, had accurately predicted the expansion plans of the...
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