Mitchell Jackson

1 month ago | thespectator.com | Alexander Larman |Byron’s Women |Stephen MIller |Stephen Miller |Mitchell Jackson

What had initially looked like one of the most wide-open Academy Awards in history turned out to be nothing of the kind. Indie director Sean Baker’s twisted romantic comedy Anora —about a sex worker who marries an oligarch’s son —had won the Palme d’Or at Cannes last year.

1 month ago | thespectator.com | Alexander Larman |Byron’s Women |Stephen MIller |Stephen Miller |Mitchell Jackson

Somehow the strange circumstances of the death of Gene Hackman, found dead in his New Mexico home with his wife Betsy and their dog, make the end of one of America’s finest actors all the more poignant. The full details will presumably become clear soon — but whatever happened, it is more important to remember Hackman’s legendary on-screen career than to waste time fixating on his final moments.

2 months ago | thespectator.com | Rod Liddle |Jacob Heilbrunn |Mitchell Jackson

Nestled between the sci-fi skyscrapers of downtown and luxury marina beaches, Dubai has a side few tourists or outsiders get to see. Forget the glamour and explore the industrial warehouses of al Quoz and the unassuming streets of al Barsha, coated in a layer of desert dust. You would be justified in assuming the al Barsha Holiday Inn, awkwardly situated adjacent to the eighteen-lane Sheikh Zayed Road, must be a low point.

2 months ago | thespectator.com | Rod Liddle |Mitchell Jackson |Bill Kauffman |Sue Prideaux

Hell, there’s a lot not to like, or even to be a little suspicious of, with this young woman. Her politics are, as you might have guessed, banal and stupid. She has been in a relationship with the ghastly Matty Healy of the 1975. But she has huge talent and is probably a more interesting musician than any other we have right now, if we’re just talking pop music. She exists just beyond the Kuiper Belt of digital, alternative rhythm and blues, where pop meets modern classical.