Xan Brooks

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

Stephen Bogart has shrugged off the baggage of nostalgia and chosen his own path, rolling with the punches like a true film-noir hero

The gravelly-voiced musician has played Dracula's minion, a dogged prospector and the Devil himself, finding fans in many of our best living filmmakers, from the Coen brothers to Paul Thomas Anderson. As he celebrates a milestone birthday,

The gravelly-voiced musician has played Dracula’s minion, a dogged prospector and the Devil himself, finding fans in many of our best living filmmakers, from the Coen brothers to Paul Thomas Anderson. As he celebrates a milestone birthday, Xan Brooks explores his strange, wonderful second career

The Hollywood romcom is turned on it head in this tale of an exotic dancer and an oligarch’s son who get hitched before the honeymoon turns sour

The Hollywood romcom is turned on it head in this tale of an exotic dancer and an oligarch’s son who get hitched before the honeymoon turns sour

Xan Brooks · 11-min read The Brutalist is a big, muscular American epic that pits the individual against the machine; the artist against the cogs and wheels of commerce.

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

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The familiarity of the Dracula legend makes this creepy new take on it almost reassuring, says Xan Brooks – just like other classic horror films