Bravo, Ethan Hawke, for showing us that superhero films have no clothes | Caspar Salmon

The actor’s opinion of the X-Men film Logan has been called elitist, but it’s high time critics like me were more demanding of the genre

It’s always cheering to read an interview with an actor who has reached a stage of their career where they no longer worry about toeing the line. True classics of the genre include barn-busting interviews with Teri Garr (select nuggets: Francis Ford Coppola was “a humourless Italian guy”, Sydney Pollack was “sexist”, Jack Nicholson and Bob Rafelson “plagiarised” Bruce Conner); Bronson Pinchot (“We thought Tom Cruise was the biggest bore on the face of the Earth”); and most recently, Kathleen Turner (Nicolas Cage “was that asshole”).

Why are we so afraid to make a distinction between art and entertainment?

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