Let me get one thing out of the way first, I love writer/director Richard Curtis, were I not an actual man (chest hair, pot-belly and all) I’d have his babies! Why? Because I love what the man ...
I must admit I really wasn’t expecting much as I sat in the cinema waiting for British director Nick Love’s latest offering.
The Firm is a remake of a seminal 1988-television feature th...
In 1966 an Italian filmmaker made a film that stunned audiences worldwide. His name was Gillo Pontecorvo and the film in question was The Battle Of Algiers.
The film is about the Algerian revolution ...
You know what. I love cinema. I think cinema is greatest thing that mankind has ever produced. I think when used correctly cinema is the highest form of art that exists on this planet. Nothing gives m...
Wednesday 9th September saw the re-release of The Beatles classic albums. All have been digitally remastered and have been released in conjunction with the amazing Beatles rockband. Great fun and lege...
To his credit, on the surface, fame and money do not seem to be so important to Ricky Gervais. He’s got both, but there’s an insouciance in his attitude towards celebrity and the media c...
Virginia Woolf’s essay ‘On Being Ill’ contained a magical sentence that celebrated sickness as a perception skewering, spiritually emancipating experience. “How astonishingâ...
Standing before a sold out crowd to introduce his latest work-in-progress at the 53rd London Film Festival, France’s most notorious director announced: “It is long. It is painful on your ...
*Warning: Contains mild spoilers*
Thought provoking, ambitious, confusing, disturbing. Four words that are very different and yet each one can be applied to screenwriter Charlie Kaufman’s dire...
“It would be easy to play Jennifer one dimensionally†said Megan Fox of her titular role, with the emphasis very much on tit, in Jennifer’s Body. For a humble reviewer, hoping to st...