David Thomson

Aug 8, 2024 | thescottishsun.co.uk | David Thomson |David Oliver |Robert Thomson

He was ranked one of the Top 50 prospects in world footballABERDEEN have signed up former Man City youth midfielder Ante Palaversa. The Croatian kid has signed a one-year deal at the Dons as Jimmy Thelin's fifth recruit of the new regime. And he comes with promise having been a highly rated prospect first at Hajduk Split and then Man City. So much so, Pep Guardiola's side shelled out €7m for his services five years ago. He was also included in the 2019 list of wonderkids in the NXGN series.

Jul 2, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Adam Nayman |Kate Stables |Rachel Pronger |David Thomson

Despite an affecting central performance from Lupita Nyong’o and some thrilling action sequences, this apocalyptic origin story feels thin. 2 July 2024In Alien (1979), Ellen Ripley proved her humanity by risking her life to save a cat; A Quiet Place: Day One is a movie for people who dream of watching that scene over and over again.

Jul 1, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Kate Stables |Rachel Pronger |David Thomson |Dominic Lees

“Humans destroy to create new things,” observes Sophia idly at a Montreal dinner party. It’s the faintest batsqueak of warning to the audience that this sweet-natured fortyish lecturer on the philosophy of love, snug in a pleasant, passionless marriage, will find herself sideswiped by a coup de foudre.

Jun 27, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | David Thomson |Rachel Pronger |Dominic Lees |Gilbert Adair

When it was first released, our reviewer David Thomson found Sidney Lumet’s media satire to be too reliant on the methods and devices of commercial TV, writing “the film is as vicious and feeble as a wasp trapped in the jam it craves”. 25 June 2024Network is a furious and infuriating tangle. Is it a brilliant/shocking/corrosive satire on America’s dwelling in screened imitations of reality, or is it a snake devouring its own tail?

Oct 10, 2023 | bfi.org.uk | David Robinson |Kieron Corless |Ben Walters |David Thomson

News, reviews and archive features every Friday, and information about our latest magazine once a month. It may have been different for audiences of fifty years ago; but most modern spectators need at least a couple of films to accustom themselves to Fairbanks. The first sight of him can produce a certain bewilderment, that this was the superstar of all times, the world’s hero, the one-man American dream.