Paul
There is little doubt that Simon Pegg and Nick Frost intended Paul to be an enjoyable romp through the collective memory of all the classic Science Fiction feature films of…
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BOTTLED UP: A Francine Witt Mystery | Audiobook
Ella Whitehead returns as Francine Witt in the darker, twistier second instalment of the series. Fans of wine-soaked mysteries, feminist intrigue, and Francine Witt’s unforgettable wit have reason to celebrate:…
Me and Orson Welles
When I heard that teenage heartthrob Zac Efron was going to star in Richard Linklater's film based on the novel by Robert Kaplow about a fledgling actor who gets his lucky break playing Lucius in Orson Welles'…
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
I came to see Scott Pilgrim vs. the World on Blu-ray without prior knowledge of Bryan Lee O'Malley's 6 volume digest size graphic novel and whilst it appears that the 2nd…
North by Northwest
After his intensely personal psychological thriller Vertigo received mixed reviews due to its length and obsessive attention to detail Hitchcock set out to follow it with a fast paced, action packed, stylish, comic, chase picture…
Michael Clayton
Fresh from the success of furnishing the scripts for the extremely lucrative Bourne franchise, Tony Gilroy was given the rare opportunity to make his directorial debut with his own original screenplay…
Network
At the 2011 Academy Awards Aaron Sorkin said in his acceptance speech, "It’s impossible to describe what it feels like to be handed the same award that was given to Paddy…
Taxi Driver
There are very few films that have had such an impact on me as Taxi Driver, I was in my first year at college doing A-Levels and had a lucky couple…
Tetro
I was given Tetro on Blu-ray as a Christmas present but I had delayed watching it as with Francis Ford Coppola's previous release Youth Without Youth I was actually expecting to be…
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…
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 […]