We can rebuild him

So I wrote these novels. If you enjoy any of the writing on this blog, you might want to check them out. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/pro...

This year, with less time than I've ever had before, I read fewer books and more comics. Which means this is quite a long list. Its main...

North By Northwest ( Hitchcock ) Heat ( Mann ) Seven Samurai ( Kurosawa ) Days of Heaven ( Malick ) Once Upon A Time In The West ( L...

I love Parker. That's Richard Stark's Parker, the professional Thief who stars in a series of 24 fine crime novels, beginning with T...

As a sort of adjunct to my Best of 2011 list, this is a list of my favourite Genre films, all released in the UK in 2011: FASTER (George Til...

This just gets harder every year. I've reviewed most of these over at Capsule In Space , so head over there if you want more in-depth v...

  Some films due for release in 2012 that I'm quite keen to see. And why.   THE GRANDMASTERS (Wong Kar Wai) A Wong Kar Wai biopic of leg...

Whatever happened to Christopher Crowe? Well, I know what happened, he now owns a business constructing racing cars for NASCAR, having appar...

Kenneth Branagh loves a Dutch Angle. That's when a frame is tilted, or "canted". Here's an example from Thor , which is fu...

There was an interview with Irish author Roddy Doyle in the Guardian last week which discusses, in some detail, his work as writer on the 19...

Why have the folk storytelling traditions of the British Isles never really been reflected in the cinema produced here? These Islands are ri...