Jonathan Dean
The Times of London
United Kingdom
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How Everything Everywhere All at Once became an Oscars favourite
An unlikely sci-fi hit about a Chinese-American family is in pole position for best picture at the Oscars → Read More
Brit Awards 2023 winners: see the full list
Our rock critic predicts who will and won’t win at tonight’s ceremony → Read More
Blur, Pulp, Oasis or Suede: who is the best Britpop band?
Britpop is back, if it ever went away. Thirty years after Blur, Oasis, Suede and Pulp soundtracked a nation about to be swept up by Euro 96, Tony Blair and Cool → Read More
Craig David: Just a rubber mask? Bo’ Selecta was racist and ruined my life
Craig David has a severe problem with his back, a degenerative disc that became so bad his world fell apart. He goes into details: the L5 to S1 joint; the huge → Read More
Married misery has replaced the romcom
Last week, millions watched Sean Bean and Nicola Walker eat takeaway and argue as their relationship, in the BBC four-parter Marriage, very possibly falls apa → Read More
Ten things we learnt from Glastonbury 2022
Times writers on the good, the bad and the weird of the festival weekend → Read More
Laura Dern: Was our age gap in Jurassic Park ‘completely appropriate’?’
Thirty years ago Steven Spielberg called Sam Neill and Laura Dern and asked them to be the leads in his pioneering dinosaur blockbuster Jurassic Park. They woul → Read More
Rich List 2021: the UK’s richest musicians after a year with no touring
What a strange year that was for the music industry, and not just because the comedy act LadBaby had their third Christmas No 1 in a row. All over the world the live sector — the fun, lucrative part — → Read More
It’s the end of the Hollywood blockbuster as we know it
Cinemas in China are doing well and it has nothing to do with Hollywood. A reason to be cheerful? Probably. It means the absurd control that country holds over films from an entirely different culture could wane. If it does, we would never again have to suffer all those shoehorned-in scenes, such as the Chinese actors operating on Tony Stark in Iron Man 3. That felt as intrusive in an American… → Read More
This year’s Oscars are going to be hilariously weird
But could it be the shake-up the Academy needs? → Read More
The secret of The Queen’s Gambit’s success? It was serene TV when we needed it most
Yes, it had Mad Men levels of style, but that wasn’t why we were hooked. It flipped the TV script, showed us goodness and joy where other shows would have veered off into dark melodrama, and reduced the world to a calming 64 squares → Read More
Why Trolls World Tour was the most important film of 2020. No, really
Parasite? Tenet? Da 5 Bloods? Nope. Trolls World Tour was the most impactful film of 2020, as it was the first to bypass theatres with a digital-first release and saw a raft of films – from Wonder Woman 1984 to Dune – follow suit. Whisper it: it might have changed cinema forever. → Read More
Paul McCartney interview: on recording McCartney III and his friendship with John Lennon
Paul McCartney spent lockdown on his farm in East Sussex. During the day he would head to his nearby studio to make the music that would end up on his new album, McCartney III. “We were very careful,” → Read More
Emma Corrin is bringing Princess Diana to a new generation
Netflix’s The Crown returns, with Emma Corrin playing Princess Diana. In an interview with Emma Corrin, the actress talks through playing Princess Di. → Read More
Taron Egerton: ‘The Tetris film is more Social Network than Lego Movie!’
During lockdown, Taron Egerton has been making moves. And while his Golden Globe-winning role as Elton John still lingers in the memory, his "insane" true story of Tetris is set to be his next blockbuster… in every sense. → Read More
Sufjan Stevens new song 'America' is here to save 2020
Nothing with Sufjan Stevens is ever simple and his 12 minute new track, “America”, is no different. Here's Jonathan Dean's review... → Read More
Reptilia isn't the The Strokes' best song
The Strokes' best songs. In honour of the band's new album, The New Abnormal, we look back at their catalogue from Room On Fire to Is This It. → Read More
Why the clocks going forward actually matters this year
Clocks change 2020 uk. British Summer Time means the clocks go forward on Sunday 30 March in the UK. Here's why, even with the latest current affairs, it matters. → Read More
Why 2020 is the year of The Strokes
The Strokes returned to London's Roundhouse and Jonathan Dean was there to review the rock band's comeback show. → Read More
Why Dave deserves every Brit award win
Dave Brit Awards 2020: The rapper is nominated for four awards and deserves to win them all for his album Pyschodrama. After all, who else is even attempting his tone of anger and honesty in mainstream pop music these days? → Read More