This blog is about a film in which we swap Pennsylvania for California. Unashamedly, indeed gleefully, riffing off Groundhog Day, the Bill Murray/Andi...
Read MoreI admit that coronavirus has come into play here. This film is from a DVD, a story about the late 1960s shot in the mid-1980s. Withnail and I (the co...
Read MoreThings can only get better…or perhaps not?
As with many industries, the film business has been hit brutally hard in 2020. What began as a year celebrating the success of Parasite, a South Korea...
Read MoreNo time to die…and let’s hope that cinemas don’t
First Mulan was postponed, as mentioned in a blog I posted in March, just as all hell was officially breaking loose around the world, but now it’...
Read MoreBack from the future
For different reasons, Cannes on the French Riviera and Venice on the Italian Adriatic coast are two of the most alluring destinations in Western Euro...
Read MoreVenice yes…Cannes no but sort of…Oscars push-back?
This is not a particularly auspicious time to be writing a blog about film. Mostly because there aren’t any to go to see – well, not if on...
Read MoreHard times and soft sofas
The makers of Official Secrets didn’t go out of their way to conjure up some fancy title for their film about this real-life story, one which i...
Read MoreFILM: Smoking Gun
Directed by Danny Boyle, written by Richard Curtis and with a soundtrack based on the songs of the world’s most legendary pop group, what could ...
Read MoreFILM: A story to make your troubles seem so far away?
Rocketman is the story of Elton John (or Reg Dwight to give him his name when he was a piano-obsessed small boy in Pinner, Middlesex). If one reads ...
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