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Adam Scovell

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10 of the greatest murder mysteries ever

As the new Knives Out film, Wake Up Dead Man, is released on streaming, here are more ingenious – and confounding – whodunnits to watch and read. ...

12.12.2025 70

BBC

Adam Scovell

This forgotten show was the original Black Mirror

Sixty years ago, anthology series Out of the Unknown premiered on the BBC. It served up serious, one-off sci-fi dramas exploring our relationship with...

17.10.2025 20

BBC

Adam Scovell

Theatre / Rattigan’s films are as important as his plays

07.08.2025 10

The Spectator

Adam Scovell

Rattigan’s films are as important as his plays

07.08.2025 9

The Spectator

Adam Scovell

The terrifying stunts of a French film legend

Decades before Tom Cruise was making audiences gasp, the Gallic star was getting up to even more hair-raising exploits on screen – sometimes with...

07.05.2025 60

BBC

Adam Scovell

The 1950s French horror that inspired Psycho

Seventy years old this year, Henri-Georges Clouzot's film about two women plotting murder is a masterclass in macabre dread – and inspired...

16.04.2025 80

BBC

Adam Scovell