19 JANUARY 2002, page 46

Black Hawk Down (12, Selected Cinemas)

Heroic times Mark Steyn T here's no fat in Black Hawk Down. Everything's lean: lean actors, lean plot, lean script. Here's Tom Sizemore, a colonel in charge of a small convoy......

Beguiling Rubbish

Simon Hoggart N owadays, I hear, people talk a lot about 'good bad television', which means TV that's carefully made with expensive production values, but which is actually......

The Turn Of The Screw; Tosca (royal Opera House)

Diminished depths Michael Tanner I n his Preface to the New York edition of The Turn of the Screw, Henry James writes 'it is a piece of ingenuity pure and simple, of cold......