Will Gore, Author at Catholic Herald

Will Gore

Film: On the edge of being a great high school film

November 24, 2016

The Edge of Seventeen (12A, 104 mins, ★★★) Hailee Steinfeld made a huge impression back in 2010 when she made her big-screen debut in the Coen brothers’ True Grit at the age of just 14. She played a tough-talking farm girl, giving a performance that proved more than a match for Jeff Bridges’s turn as a grizzled

Fine art: Bob Dylan lets his pictures do the talking

November 17, 2016

When Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, a tremendous fuss was made – both by those exalting the decision, and others who were left unimpressed that a mere singer-songwriter had been elevated to such an esteemed literary pantheon. It was also no big shock that Dylan himself stayed aloof from the subsequent

A Renaissance painter for the age of ISIS

November 09, 2016

Caravaggio is the perfect artist for our modern, divided era

Fim: Werner Herzog’s surreal tour of volcanoes

November 03, 2016

Into the Inferno (12A, 107 mins, ★★★★) Of the many subjects Werner Herzog has confronted throughout his long and extraordinary career, the natural world is one he has returned to again and again. Within this vast canvas, the question of how man interacts with the wonders of the universe has been of particular fascination to the Bavarian

A Renaissance painter for the age of ISIS

November 03, 2016

For a Caravaggio nut like me, it’s been a good month. A trip to Malta, taking my son to visit his grandmother, presented an opportunity to pay a return visit to the St John’s Co-Cathedral in Valletta, which houses his masterpiece, The Beheading of St John the Baptist. Back in England, I went to Beyond

The thrill of the Sopranos comes to the Vatican

October 26, 2016

Paolo Sorrentino hasn't compromised his cinematic vision in his move to the small screen

The thrill of the Sopranos comes to the Vatican

October 06, 2016

The importance of location to great fiction has been emphasised again and again throughout the current golden age of television. HBO’s run of seminal shows prove the rule. Whether it’s mobster New Jersey in The Sopranos or The West Wing’s corridors of power, a sound choice of location provides a platform from which complex and

Film: A charlatan who gave fine wine experts a hangover

September 15, 2016

When it comes to picking wine for dinner, I’ve always been firmly in the “go for the second cheapest and hope for the best” camp. Yet this didn’t stop me loving Sour Grapes, (★★★★ 85 mins, cert 15) a documentary about nefarious goings-on in the fine wine industry. I suspect even teetotallers will get a

Film: Epic failure as wheels fall off chariots classic

September 08, 2016

The new Ben-Hur is a flop. Having sat through it, it's not hard to see why

Film: Epic failure as wheels fall off chariots classic

September 08, 2016

To say that this new 3D version of Ben-Hur comes to British cinemas on a downer is something of an understatement. The film cost a whopping $100 million to make, but flopped spectacularly at the US box office, making a paltry $11.4 million on its opening weekend. Having sat through it, it’s not hard to

Football: the other religion of Argentina

September 01, 2016

Angels with Dirty Faces by Jonathan Wilson, Orion, £20 Some of the best sports books of recent times have sought to survey the football culture of entire nations. David Winner’s Brilliant Orange, about Dutch football, and Futebol: A Brazilian Way of Life, by Alex Bellos, are two of this sub-genre’s finest examples. Now Jonathan Wilson

Film review: Ukrainian father figure poses a moral dilemma

August 18, 2016

Almost Holy is a compelling documentary that explores the controversial work of Pastor Gennadiy Mokhnenko, but the return of David Brent is a dispiriting affair

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