Blog posts by year and monthApril 2017
Posts (8)
Black and Chrome
Mad Max: Fury Road returns briefly to cinemas this weekend in a special 鈥楤lack and Chrome鈥� edition. A style gimmick or is something much more interesting revealed by taking out the colour?
Critical Direction
The Handmaiden currently out in cinemas. It鈥檚 director Park Chan Wook was formerly a film critic - which raises an interesting question.
Their Finest
Producer Stephen Woolley has programmed a fascinating season of WW2 propaganda films to mark the release of Their Finest.
Mulholland Drive
David Lynch鈥檚 Mulholland Drive is on re-release - it topped a list of 21st century films last year and shows us the unique relationship between TV and film in his work.
Punch-Drunk Transformers
Here is my take on the latest Transformers news - with apologies to Paul Thomas Anderson鈥檚 鈥楶unch-Drunk Love鈥�
Notes On Film
People often ask me whether I make notes during screenings - here is my secret notebook revealed for the first time...
My Top Ten Cannibal Movies
There鈥檚 a terrific new film out this week called Raw. What better time to list my favourite portrayals of the taboo subject of cannibalism...
