Nick's Film Jottings

Coup de Grace Shoah Adolescence A Real Pain

A splendid writer-director debut, winning Oscar and BAFTA for Kieran Culkin's wonderful performance and BAFTA for the seriously good scr...

I'm sure it is a story that needed telling properly, based partly on 'A Fine Day for a Hanging'; by Caroline Lee'. Though I...

Written by Pamela Gray. A family on vacation in a very specific 1969. Liev Schreiber, Diane Lane, Anna Paquin, Bobby Boriello and Tovah Feld...

Natasha Rothwell was in the Hawaii one. Joined by son Nicholas Duvernay. Tayme Thapthimthong is besotted by Lalisa Monobal. Walton Coggins (...

Or - El Dorado - the Lost City of Marmalade. Sadly, Paul King and Simon Farnaby are no longer at the helm - they contributed the fairly rout...

Somerset Maugham's definitive 1915 novel about a man who falls hard for the wrong woman. Whether she finally starts falling for him or n...

Through the ages in (on on) one house, shot from a fixed camera. 'Look at how clever we are' instead of 'let's make an engag...

Huston was accompanied on the picture, filmed partly in Mexico, by a representative of author B Traven called Hal Croves. He suspected that ...

Opens with Maugham telling us it's our fault there's a sequel as Quartet  was popular! James Hayter is "The Verger" who is...

"The Ant and the Grasshopper". Adapted by T.E.B. Clarke, directed by Pat Jackson. A pleasure to have Nigel Patrick and Roland Culv...

Only watched it a couple of years ago - see here - but a good one to end a Sunday Four (or Five, in my case). Pictured: Leslie Manville, El...

Orson was directing The Magnificent Ambersons by day and acting in this at night - he's not too happy with his own performance which se...

Jeremy Leven and the director adapted Jodi Picoult's novel. Nick has cast well / brought out the best acting in splendid cast: Cameron D...

Produced by Cagney's brother William (for United Artists), who was himself an actor briefly in the 1930s, then turned to producing sever...

Had long been intrigued by this film - now we've been introduced, I find it very strong and good. Cattle folk Henry Fonda and Harry Morg...

Written by Nick Payne. In chronological disorder, Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield meet, love, suffer and have a daughter. The leads are as...

Based on a novel by Harry Brown, who neatly enough became a screenwriter and won an Oscar for his adaptation of A Place in the Sun . This is...