Idris Elba on The Mountain Between Us
Emirates Man, September 2017 Idris Elba looks nothing less than beaten. It is well below freezing on the border of Alberta and British Columbia in Canada, and his character has just endured a plane crash […]
FILM
Steven Berkoff on Shakespeare and villainy
Vision, April 2016 It’s one of the most memorable roles in the long history of James Bond villainy. In Octopussy, Steven Berkoff’s General Orlov roars his plan to take down the “decadent West” with all the […]
The making of Gymkhana 8
The National, April 2016 It’s one of Dubai’s busiest highways. But for once, the thundering traffic of Sheikh Zayed Road is nowhere to be seen. Instead, lined up at the traffic lights are five cars, […]
Lupita Nyong’o interview
Vision, January 2016 When Lupita Nyong’o finally signed up for JJ Abrams’s long-awaited Star Wars film last year, she joined an exclusive club. Before her, only Sir Alec Guinness – who famously played Obi-Wan Kenobi in the […]
JJ Abrams profile
The National, December 2015 “Exciting, spectacular and seductively innocent”; “A humongous piece of cinema … with intergalactic, warp-speed, panoramic blockbuster action”; “Bold but beautiful, nostalgic but new”. The critical reaction to Star Wars: The Force Awakens (and […]