JG Ballard’s 1975 novel High Rise finally makes it to the screen (producer Jeremy Thomas had tried to get it made for many years) in an adaptation that is faithful to the novel’s tone and retains the ...

Good luck if you decide to bring a novel long described as ‘unfilmable’ to the big screen. David Cronenberg had no success with Naked Lunch; David Lynch came a serious cropper with Dune and Mike ...

Unless you’re Steven Spielberg making Empire of the Sun, you’ll probably have issues translating J.G. Ballard to the screen. The only other notably mainstream (and I use that term very lightly here) ...

Rating: I f**king love Ben Wheatley. Not only does he make daring, challenging movies, but he manages to consistently divide the critics (and audiences) in doing so. At a time where every film is ...

Ben Wheatley is sitting in Brighton’s trendy Silo café (everything recycled), nursing a very small cup of doubtless impeccably sourced coffee. On the surface, it’s a world very different from the one ...

A multi-storey solution for the everyman and his every need: a Brutalist monument to utilitarian modernism is erected by Royal Architects on the outskirts of an English metropolis. Dr Robert Laing ...

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In her new show Jane Horrocks re-interprets hits from the northern male artists of the 70s and 80s. Plus remembering the co-creator of Thunderbirds and a review of High-Rise. Show more In If You Kiss ...

High-Rise may be set in the seventies but the topics it explores are more relevant to today’s social problems, finds Laura Mark J G Ballard’s High Rise is one of those books, like the Fountainhead, ...