Chris RogersJul 31, 20225 minOther things‘Patriots’ at the Almeida TheatreFor 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...
Chris RogersJul 19, 20228 minFilmScreen saverToday the British Film Institute regains control of the IMAX cinema it built at Waterloo twenty years ago, a decade after being forced by...
Chris RogersJul 9, 20228 minArchitectureHome workIn three months’ time Leighton House, the studio-turned-museum built by artist Frederic Leighton in the latter part of the nineteenth...
Chris RogersJun 25, 20224 minFilm"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...
Chris RogersJun 11, 20225 minArtHello darkness, my old friendYou might think you know Walter Sickert, creator of dark interiors suggesting darker deeds. But as I found at Tate Britain’s current...
Chris RogersMay 31, 20223 minArchitectureWhat 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....
Chris RogersMay 26, 20223 minTelevisionBBC What fourFor a while in the 2000s it looked like Canadian comedian Mike Myers, of all people, had accurately predicted the expansion plans of the...