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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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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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...
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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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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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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 ...
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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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This rattlingly vibrant film was an early…er, favourite to scoop up many honours in the upcoming film awards season, not least for its leading l...
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The Martin Amis novel, London Fields, is one of my favourite books. That is not a universally shared view. It was regarded as a serious contender for ...
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You would be hard pressed to find a more quintessentially English film than this. Based on the Booker-shortlisted novel of the same name by Penelope F...
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