The mixed responses came despite Miyazaki’s well-known anti-war stance in Japan, where he made headlines in 2015 for urging his country’s leaders “to say clearly that aggressive war was completely wrong, having brought enormous damage to the Chinese people”. Miyazaki, a co-founder of Japanese animation company Studio Ghibli and director of films such as Spirited … Read more
Wishful thinking is an unforgiving mistress. The Duke of York learnt that in late 2019 after he agreed to an exclusive one-on-one interview with BBC Newsnight journalist Emily Maitlis to answer uncomfortable questions about his personal ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The meme-worthy hour of television was intended to end the social-media hubbub. … Read more
One man can make a difference in a world divided by conflict. In director James Hawes’s handsomely crafted period drama based on Barbara Winton’s biography of her humanitarian father, the difference is 86-year-old Sir Anthony Hopkins. The two-time Oscar winner elevates a stirring tale of quiet dedication in the shadow of the Nazi war machine … Read more
