Nick's Film Jottings

Over-edited to the point of madness. And so lacking in the original's slow and brilliant build-up. Some nice touches, e.g. where she...

Of course Ted will go back to Richmond to train the girls' team. Of course he will take his son with him. The way he gets his young supe...

Meet the Indian lawyer firm family: dad Sanjeev Bhaskar, high achieving daughter Ritu Arya and her soon-to-be Danny Ashok, gay brother Arian...

Graham Norton's novel is about a father with dementia (Douglas Henshall) whose wife has left him, and her name must never be mentioned a...

Another playful Atticus Pund murder mystery with most of the cast giving two performances (one in the novel being told, one in the present) ...

How come they were allowed to make a film in colour in 1943? Because this is a massive ad for the US Navy.  Somewhat reluctantly, Tyrone Pow...

Dan in Real Life  is a real sweet film as widower Carrell meet-cutes Juliette Binoche in a bookshop and falls head over heels immediately......

This time, I listened  to it all. It's a sound work of art. Did wonder - that opening shot that prowls around the apartments - looks lik...

One For Sorrow . Helen Jenkins. Taxidermy video installation and murder. Refreshingly unknown casts in these later films. We meet Hathaway...

Not sure they kicked off Entry Wounds  that well, really. Lewis has retired but rejoins the team the same day Innocent calls him without tel...

Down Among the Fearful  by Simon Block and Catherine Tregenna. A psychic is murdered who is then discovered not to be a psychic at all. Cath...

One of those 'locked room' films that I'm particularly not keen on, like Abigail's Party  and Who's Afraid of Virginia W...

We were delighted to learn that season 2 has another 16 episodes; less delighted that Louisa's long lost brother Martin Shaw turns up fo...

The Soul of Genius . Rachel Bennette. The one about The Hunting of the Snark. Lewis "I read it last night." "What did you thi...

Murder at college reunion at all-girls St Mathilda, where we've been before in the Endeavour  story Zenana  (series 7). Then, a fight w...

The Dead of Winter  is an interesting episode which Russell Lewis evoked in his later Endeavour  film Prey , as we learn that Hathaway's...

There was an English Civil War and we beheaded our own king. I think that's Big History. And then Cromwell became a kind of dictator wit...

Minghella the writer provides enjoyable and original material - thus the prostitute (Vera Farmiga) who ends up sat in the car as partners Ju...

Allegory of Love.  Story: David Pirie; screenplay Steven Churchett. A woman is murdered with an ornate Islamic mirror and then other literar...

And the Moonbeams Kiss the Sea  (Shelley) by Alan Plater, featuring a crocodile in the River Cherwell! We both would have signed up for Emil...