It’s a cliche as old as cinema itself. But dismissing film-making as the weak sibling of the arts is often rooted in snobbery
In the Guide’s weekly Solved! column, we look into a crucial pop-culture question you’ve been burning to know the answer to – and settle it, once and for all
Saturday afternoon, any given multiplex, pre-Covid. The credits roll. We rise and shuffle, still brushing popcorn husks off our fronts. And it’s about now that you’ll hear the braying of the literati in the row behind: “Well, obviously, the book is always better than the film.”