Film critic and author Tim Robey sits down with Beneficial Shock! editor Gabriel Solomons to discuss his new book 'Box Office Poison: Hollywood's Story in A Century of Flops'. Topics of discussion include film-makers as tragic figures, ineffective film marketing and why failure can – for some film-makers – lead to very good things.
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Since 2000, Tim Robey has reviewed films, written features and conducted interviews for The Daily Telegraph's arts pages. He appears regularly on Radio 4's Front Row and Monocle FM Radio, contributed to R4's now-defunct Film Programme, and appeared as a sofa guest on BBC Film 2015-2017. He gave Cats zero stars, but has now seen it four times. His favourite film is Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line (1998).