Caspar Salmon

London

Freelance Journalist at Freelance

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Articles

Riz Ahmed and Richard Ayoade can’t quite believe their luck

3 weeks ago | theface.com | Caspar Salmon

“Everyone on set can free themselves up with the delivery of dialogue and have the confidence to deliver what they have to with simplicity”
Pity the new Harry Potter kids

3 weeks ago | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Caspar Salmon

Last week, the central trio of children for HBO’s upcoming, much-discussed Harry Potter television series was revealed. The kids seem perfectly amiable and doubtless very happy to get to play Harry and Hermione and the other one, and yet the news has been greeted cautiously online and in the media. The show comes at a time when the Harry Potter intellectual property, despite its continued commercial clout, has become fiercely politically contested.
Cracked Actor: Carmen Maura

4 weeks ago | metrograph.com | Caspar Salmon

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988) On the dynamic performances of the actress who shaped Pedro Almodóvar’s cinematic world. Volver a Carmen opens at Metrograph Friday, May 30. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988). All About My Mother (1999). Talk To Her (2002). Right away, Pedro Almodóvar’s films announce his interest in women and femininity.
Can Carol Vorderman save Britain?

Sep 12, 2024 | theface.com | Caspar Salmon

Carol Vorderman loves a scrap. Cannot get enough. In the last two years, the former numbers lady from Countdown and two-time winner of Rear of the Year has discovered that whenever she has a pop at the Tories online – which she does with increasing frequency – her replies and retweets go through the roof. Speaking about it now in a London hotel room, Carol can barely conceal her glee. “I’ve always been a bit of a mischief maker,” she says.
What Alice Munro did

Jul 12, 2024 | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Caspar Salmon

The book world has been in disarray since the revelation over the weekend by Alice Munro’s daughter, Andrea Robin Skinner, that the recently deceased Nobel prize-winning author sided with her husband, Gerald Fremlin, when Skinner told her that he (her stepfather) had abused her as a child.
Hollywood, what did you do during Israel’s war on Gaza?

Apr 22, 2024 | middleeasteye.net | Caspar Salmon

Last week, the grassroots organisation Cinema For Gaza raised over $326,000 for Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) by auctioning donations provided by high-profile film world figures including Tilda Swinton, Ayo Edebiri and Josh O’Connor. A small operation at the outset, organised by group of UK-based film-makers and authors, it initially offered such lots as a walk-on part in Gurinder Chadha’s next film or a Zoom mentoring session with a director.
Sit back, stretch your legs, and ignore the murders: seven ways to survive ITV’s Red Eye

Apr 19, 2024 | ca.news.yahoo.com | Caspar Salmon

At some point in your life, odds are that you will have to take a red eye flight for work, or a holiday. These long-haul flights, departing at night and arriving at their destination early in the morning, can be exhausting. But they are not always predictable – and, as is the case in ITV’s new thriller Red Eye, one of the passengers may be an agent intent on preventing the truth about a shadowy organisation from getting out.
Oscars 2024: Jonathan Glazer and the need to divest from US film over Gaza

Mar 18, 2024 | middleeasteye.net | Hazem Fahmy |Caspar Salmon

Jonathan Glazer was trembling as he denounced the instrumentalisation of Jewishness in the name of killing.
‘Upending the genre’: the children’s author rewriting the rules of sex ed

Oct 9, 2023 | theguardian.com | Caspar Salmon

“I see my role as a trusted adult,” says Canadian sex educator Cory Silverberg. “A lot of advice for parents skims over the fact that they are not good at stuff. We’re bad at friendships. We are bad with money: we do an online shop at 1am, but we also know we need to make our kids financially literate. At the end of a long day, if my kid asks a question, I’ll give them a short answer.
The Lesson review: a serviceable literary thriller

Sep 25, 2023 | bfi.org.uk | Lou Thomas |Michael Brooke |Caspar Salmon |Annabel Jackson

A young tutor gets caught up in a wealthy family’s secrets and lies in this entertaining country house drama, featuring a star turn from Richard E. Grant as a duplicitous writer. 25 September 2023By Lou ThomasNews, reviews and archive features every Friday, and information about our latest magazine once a month. An auspicious debut feature for both director Alice Troughton and screenwriter Alex MacKeith, The Lesson’s chief selling point is its performances. Richard E.