Nick's Film Jottings

Rather than the focus being on the police trying to find the killer, Butchard chooses to focus on the unfortunate victims all killed in the ...

I don't think Billy's older brother Willie had ever seen one of his much more famous sibling's films, or if he did, he wasn'...

Hilarious moment where Ryan interrupts an award Russell is presenting here . I know, we keep watching it, but Q wanted something Christmassy...

This is a subtle masterpiece, really, and we couldn't help but feel it may have been based on experiences that were real to Baumbach, wh...

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 ...

Incredibly well rehearsed, set up, orchestrated, one take (is it though - getting out of that taxi?? - yes it is, I double-checked) vanity p...

The glorious opening crane shot in a film studio, with its overlapping dialogue, is not only a remarkable piece of work from Linus Sandgren ...

Edited by Úna Ní Dhonghaíle, photographed by Charlotte Bruus Anderson. A most Kafkaesque situation from the Iranians - '"tell them ...

I only even heard of this, tucked away as it is on Disney+, because it's another fine piece of work from Úna Ní Dhonghaíle. But the true...

Tony McNamara ( The Great, The Favourite, Poor Things ) adapted Warren Adler's 'The War of the Roses' without his distinctive bl...

Claire Bloom travels to Berlin to visit her brother (Geoffrey Toone) and his German wife, Hildegarde Knef, who seems to be up to something. ...

Naughty Libyans are at work using classic MI5 destabilizing tactics. I could not work in Slough House nor for Lamb. He and Ho remain thoroug...

Too Much . Lena Dunham thing. Did at least finish it. Etoile . Amy Sherman-Palladino thing about ballet. No! Couldn't get past first epi...

They didn't really need to make Airplane  - this is it already. Surely a contender for the so-bad-it's-good movie of the year. Reall...

We celebrate Woody's 90th birthday with his last hit and his last Oscar (he was also nominated as director) - but you don't need an ...

You don't hear much about the Bezuchas these days. well...  he did do Let Him Go . For once Sarah Jessica Parker is cast absolutely righ...

A film that bears the awful distinction of having its ending changed as a result of a preview screening. Alex (Glenn Close) originally kille...

Could have been the seed for Hacks . An aging advertising genius hires a young journalist to research her life and write a decent obituary -...

Grim and powerful social realist drama set in Mexico City, lives of impoverished youths (and adults) particularly well caught, with the odd ...

Lindsay Lohan has grown up to be the mother of Julia Butters and is about to be married to Manny Jacinto, who has his own daughter Maitreyi ...