“You nevertheless never realize what you are dealing with, do you?” That is the well-known problem posed by Ash (Ian Holm) in just one of the numerous tense scenes of Ridley Scott’s 1979 film Alien. Ash goes on: “Perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility… Unclouded by conscience, […]

A forthcoming movie starring Benedict Cumberbatch, The Electrical Lifestyle of Louis Wain, is reviving the status of a popular illustrator known for depictions of cats that captivated Victorian England—and the psychiatric hospital in southeast England in which he spent his afterwards days has mounted an exhibition of his perform to coincide […]