With more than one hundred new entries, from Amy Adams, Benedict Cumberbatch and Cary Joji Fukunaga to Joaquin Phoenix, Mia Wasikowska and Robin Wright, and completely updated, here from David Thomson...

This book is both more and less than history, a work of imagination in its own right, a piece of movie literature that turns fact into romance.' Gavin Lambert was reviewing the first edition of David...

The third novel in David Thomson's series inspired by movie genres - an enchanting yet haunting celebration of screwball romantic comedies.In 1985, with the acclaimed Suspects, and then in 1990 with the...

Fu realizzato come un film per la tv e completato in meno di tre mesi. L’attrice protagonista veniva uccisa dopo soli quaranta minuti. Non c’era alcun lieto fine. E offriva agli spettatori la scena più...

In little more than a century of cinema - Birth of a Nation was one hundred years old in 2015 - our sense of what a film director is, or should be, has shifted in fascinating ways. A director was once...

It was made like a television movie, and completed in less than three months. It killed off its star in forty minutes. There was no happy ending. And it offered the most violent scene to date in American...

“A marvelous bombshell of a book, by one of our most formidably knowledgeable and insightful writers on film, it is filled with surprises and witty asides. Though Thomson is quick to pounce on the hypocrisies...

Ce livre raconte l'histoire des petits soldats du jihad français, ces adolescents qui ont appris l'islam jihadiste sur Internet, loin des mosquées et à l'insu de leurs parents. Au début de 2014, selon...

Depuis 2012, des centaines de Français sont partis rejoindre des groupes jihadistes en Syrie. Plus de 600 sont toujours sur place, près de 150 ont déjà été tués, mais au moins 250 ont choisi de rentrer....