Nick's Film Jottings

So Allison Janney has gone from being the Press Secretary (in The West Wing ) to the President Herself! Does she appoint Keri Russell as her...

Coup de Grace Shoah . And, while we're on the subject, The Zone of Interest . Adolescence A Real Pain The latest season of Blue Lights ...

An independent British 'Royal Films' picture, not particularly well made or acted, but somehow watchable. Quintessential fifties Bri...

Apparently only distantly related to Martin Amis' novel (it's dedicated to him). It won Oscars and BAFTAs as Best Foreign Film and f...

Season highlights. Dearbháile McKinney experiencing road fatality; narrowly escapes Republican attack. Later saves women from being abused b...

An interesting but somehow unsuccessful horror film which ironically would have worked better without the (silly) horror elements. As it...

We quite enjoyed this - something different. Suranne Jones gets out of Spanish prison early as she's dying of cancer. With best friend J...

Meaningless title. Bitter ex-army hustler Charlton Heston inveigles out-of-town schmuck into bent card game with cronies Ed Begley and Jack ...

So, Shane Black's new film only rates 5.9 / 10. (At the time of jotting.) Let's have some fun trying to predict what those negative ...

Actually, the Q led the project. And this is the 1 hour 40 summary of all eight films.. and more besides. Makes other film documentaries loo...

Quite a mind-blowing film, both in content and technique. The editing, led by Joe Hutshing and Pietro Scalia is exceptional and won the Osca...

Made always with style by former cinematographer Freddie Francis, e.g. in his interesting blocking and editing. Funnily enough, Alan Hume...

What?  Four Weddings  Mike Newell? Enchanted April  Mike Newell? Yes. I was left with two feelings, thoughts, if you will. One was that for ...

James Whitmore adds to the Shawshank  connection, as do Darabont and Castle Rock, but unlike the earlier one, this goes on too long, fails t...

Rather good film of Leopold Loeb pair played by Bradford Dillman and Dean Stockwell. In 1924 the pair kidnap and kill (offscreen) a fellow c...

AND this one has the incredible Niamh Algar and Tom Hollander! Such a shame! Starts out sort of OK, then we're introduced to this monste...

 A rather more sublime presentation of Diane Keaton seriously at work is in Woody Allen's Manhattan , in which the director should take ...

How is it this film is so much worse than Minnelli's 1950 original? It's based on the original Hackett-Goodrich screenplay, adapted ...

We had seen this before - a 'cleaned' TV print, 15/3/92. 'Worthy but long winded, more character study than polemic.' Huh. I...

Begins most refreshingly with David Tennant playing Nick Davies playfully, to audience, redacting and changing names at will. (Funny moment ...