Richard Hartley

Technology, Photography & Film

Main menu

Skip to primary content
Skip to secondary content
  • Home
  • About
    • About Richard Hartley
    • Richard Hartley’s Work
    • Location
  • Film
  • Tech
  • Digital Media
  • Publishing
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • Contact

Post navigation

← Older posts
Newer posts →

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at 60: Elizabeth Taylor still crackles with feral energy

Mike Nichols’ 1966 adaptation of Edward Albee’s septic drama helped cement the play in the zeitgeist – where it has remained for the past six decades

Divide between Silicon Valley and ordinary people grows ever larger

Big tech believes the future is AI while everyday Americans remain wary; and the dangers of riding in a Tesla Cybertruck

Transforming the Beautiful Game: The Clyde Best Story review – fitting tribute to a barnstorming trailblazer

West Ham’s 1970s striker gets due respect with a stellar lineup of talking heads in a film that explores the wider implications of racism in football

‘We are a very resilient people’: in the face of Trump’s threats, Cuban cinema comes out fighting

With the island back in Washington’s sights, the Screen Cuba festival is taking UK audiences beyond the blockade

As the US midterms approach, AI is going to emerge as a key issue concerning voters

There is a political divide over AI but few leaders are taking a strong stand. It’s time for that to change

Surrender to It review – insufferable bunch of actors reconnect for hiking weekend of pain and comedy

There are echoes here of 1992’s Peter’s Friends, and given this thriller’s preposterous script and amateurish production it is likely to generate similar levels of disdain

Revolut warns it risks backlash over support for energy-intensive AI and crypto

Fintech company’s profits leap to £1.7bn as it gears up for US push after getting UK banking licence this month

No Ordinary Heist review – Eddie Marsan stars in Belfast true-crime thriller about massive bank robbery

Marsan is an odd choice for the role of an uptight bank manager compelled to cooperate with robbers in this underpowered take on a real-life bank raid in 2004

The Peaky Blinders film is pandering to these populist times – I should know, the Nazi in it is my father

The film-makers would say they’re making drama, not history. But this is not the moment for yet another second world war film with a heroic myth, says author Francis Beckett

Empire of Lies review – far-right conspiracist and YouTuber lock horns in Gloucestershire field

A reclusive man is visited by a woman who claims to be seeking the truth about his daughter’s murder in this taut but predictable thriller

Behind the rise of Clavicular and ‘looksmaxxing’ there are insecure young men who feel they don’t measure up

What is a very private struggle – coming to terms with one’s own appearance – is being reshaped into a site of competition and ridicule, says assistant Opinion editor Jason Okundaye

Amount of AI-generated child sexual abuse material found online surged in 2025

Internet Watch Foundation verified 8,029 pieces of realistic AI-made content, with 65% of videos in worst category

Victorian business fined for telling influencers to lie about paid Instagram posts in first of its kind penalty

Watchdog also fines PhotobookShop for editing a paid review from an influencer who had described process as ‘fiddly’

Valerie Perrine, Superman and Lenny actor, dies aged 82

Perrine gained notoriety for a naked TV role and was acclaimed for her roles opposite Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman and Jeff Bridges

MPs urge UK government to halt contract giving Palantir FCA data access

Awarding US spy-tech company deal involving sensitive financial data is ‘huge error of judgment’, Liberal Democrats say

Post navigation

← Older posts
Newer posts →

About

  • About Richard Hartley
  • Richard Hartley’s Work
  • Location

Film & Tech News

  • Teenager who planned terror attack in Sydney tells court he was radicalised online and used AI to strategise
  • Silicon Valley and Trump rally behind Nvidia CEO after his affair with alleged Chinese spy
  • Jensen Huang’s image has been shattered. Could he be pushed out at Nvidia?
  • The AI poster boy, the ‘Chinese spy’ and Trump: how an affair may have harmed US security
  • Cyber-attack on French supermarket freezers has geopolitical context
  • Revealed: Palantir lobbied minister to stretch AI tools’ reach to NHS GP records
  • Who is Alice Huang, the woman linked to Nvidia’s CEO?
  • Donnie Dunagan, original voice of Disney’s Bambi and triple Purple Heart marine, dies aged 92
  • Nvidia’s board needs to do some succession planning – sharpish
  • More than 400,000 Russians killed fighting in Ukraine war, leaked data suggests
  • EU sues IBM and two European firms over troubled entry/exit border system
  • Parents and teachers decry Google pledge to yank Search if schools block AI: ‘This threat is nothing but extortion’
  • ‘Obvious risk of further tragedy’ at rail crossing type at which Amazon driver died, inquiry finds
  • Why is Nvidia’s Jensen Huang at the centre of a US-China row?
  • 1 in 2 review – compassionate film about dealing with bowel cancer is a personal plea on behalf of the young
  • ‘We did 10 takes of it!’ Kerr Smith on Dawson’s Creek and filming US TV’s first gay kiss
  • ‘Sadistic, forbidden pleasure’: why Gone Girl is my feelgood movie
  • A Fox Under a Pink Moon review – Iranian teen refugee paints boldly imaginative self-portrait
  • 100 Sunset review – elliptical, elusive drama dreamlike through Toronto’s tight-knit Tibetan community
  • Look at Me by Dustin Hoffman review – an era-defining actor says his piece
  • Robert Pattinson has auditioned for James Bond – and finally the 007 race is interesting
  • ‘Thicky thicky dumb dumb’ satirist Cody Dahler on his viral videos: ‘my material is presented to me on a silver platter!’
  • Godzilla Minus Zero takes US box office by storm in opening weekend
  • Nvidia opens investigation after report CEO Jensen Huang was target of foreign intelligence
  • Is this the most rubbish Christmas present ever?
  • What are you yearning for? We took to the streets to find out
  • Pickpockets review – small-budget Australian crime flick steals audience’s heart
  • Bluey’s Daley Pearson on how losing his brother inspired his new film: ‘He was the best thing ever to me’
  • Monica Dolan looks back: ‘I was repulsed by Rose West, yet I had to work out what made her tick’
  • 1-0 to humankind? US midterms vote puts AI, datacentres and the broligarchy back in their box

Contact www.richardhartley.com   Terms of Use