Svengali Review
I first met Jonathan Owen back in 2013 when I was working on the Cass Pennant documentary Casuals, he was one of the many interviewees who helped to tell the…
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The Night of the Hunter
The Night of the Hunter was the directorial debut of legendary British actor Charles Laughton although due to the largely negative response from both the cinema going public and the…
Blue Moon (2025): The Cost of Staying in the Room
Long before Blue Moon, I had become interested in what happens to songwriting partnerships once their period of effortless alignment has passed. Mike Leigh’s Topsy-Turvy remains one of the most perceptive explorations of that dynamic, concerned less with the triumphs of Gilbert and Sullivan than with the strain of having to continue working together once inspiration has hardened […]