John Patterson

Who cares if his new film misses the mark? Quentin Tarantino’s biggest achievement is as an advocate of trash cinema, writes John Patterson.

<b>John Patterson</b> argues that the American icon’s greatest creation was not the films he directed, but the phenomenon that is Eastwood.

With this year’s output of unadulterated dross, Hollywood’s moribund movie studios look like dinosaurs of the near future, writes John Patterson.

Although it’s a movie about boxing and contains any number of neatly staged fight scenes,it is about fathers and daughters, real or ersatz, and about emotional remoteness and proximity, and doing one last good-bad thing before you die.Black boxers took on the world and knocked it flying, but Hollywood is more concerned with white ones, writes John Patterson.

The American right is having a whale of a time kicking director Robert Altman around, writes John Patterson.

The entertainment industry’s reactions to the disaster: shock, self-reflection, hypersensitivity, writes John Patterson.

And the Oscar for best actor goes to … the weather. (Or, why we are all such suckers for a natural disaster explains John Patterson.

At the age of 30 and with just three films to his name, Paul Thomas Anderson has already been granted the heady power of the Final Cut. He tells John Patterson how he cruised into the top flight of Hollywood directors

LA correspondent John Patterson delivers the verdict on Rules of Engagement, the legal thriller that replaced Erin Brockovich at the top of the US charts.