Film

Because of Covid, this 2020 film was not released in the UK until earlier this month. The Courier is based on a true cold-war story, the tale of a Bri...

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The spy who went into the cold

This blog is about a film in which we swap Pennsylvania for California. Unashamedly, indeed gleefully, riffing off Groundhog Day, the Bill Murray/Andi...

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A weird wedding in the desert

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’...

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Back from the future

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...

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Hard 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...

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FILM: Smoking Gun