Francis Ford Coppola

A catchy premise

The deep mysteries in Twist by Colum McCann

An enigmatic captain tasked with repairing undersea communication cables disappears, and it’s up to his shipmate to discover why

Chloë Ashby

Gene Hackman was never, ever bad, whatever the role

He was an actor without sentiment, but with enormous amounts of fierce compassion

Alexander Larman

The limits of AI assistants

How, for instance, can small daily rituals be programmed?

Slavoj Žižek

Megalopolis is baffling and plainly nuts — but worth it

The film is based on the Catilinarian conspiracy of 63 BC

Deborah Ross

Film

Megalopolis and the strange art of negative marketing

Marketeers have made up bad reviews for major works and used them to promote a new film

Alexander Larman