Xan Brooks
Xan Brooks is a freelance writer and broadcaster specialising in cinema
January 2025
December 2024
The Brutalist director Brady Corbet: ‘If you’re not daring to suck, you’re not doing much’
The film-maker’s latest is a three and-a-half-hour epic about the building of a modernist masterpiece, and the toll its creation takes on its architect. The film’s making was almost as gruelling. ‘People told me I’d never make another movie’, Corbet says
‘Kids were second to their drinking and partying’: Stephen Bogart, son of Bogie and Bacall, on his screen icon parents
What’s it like to grow up the son of Hollywood legends? Stephen Bogart, whose parents left him for six months even after his nanny dropped dead, reveals how he finally shook off the past
October 2024
‘It’s going to be much darker’: inside the deadly return of TV masterpiece Wolf Hall
The Tudor epic about a tyrant king and his vengeful, backstabbing entourage is back for its final instalment – and it’s more brutal than ever. We go on set to talk to the Mirror and the Light team about death, dictatorship … and ostriches
