Nick's Film Jottings

Alex Allin, Lucien Bataille, Genica Athanasiou. Dulac had been making films since 1915. This surreal study of male desire predates Un Chien ...

He also stars as Gabriel Book of Book's Books. With Polly Walker, Connor Finch, Elliot Levey, Buket Komur, Blake Harrison, Tim McInnerne...

Pinborough? Created for the Paramount network, Vicky McClure is the sleep-deprived and childhood nightmare sufferer, Leanne Best her sister....

A feisty and somewhat sex-hungry woman (Meghann Fahy, The White Lotus ) travels to an island recluse where her sister (Milly Alcock) is the ...

They adapted Jussi Adler-Olson's novel 'The Keeper of Last Causes' and it's a bit of another Slow Horses . Burnt out copper ...

The 'definitive' story? Once again we get only about 60 seconds of the film's editor, Verna Fields. Plus, there's some quite...

Lawrence, mainly a TV director, was assigned by Hammer to direct this adaptation of Jacques Gillies television play The Gold Inside , which ...

Ten part comedy drama. Despite going out with new boyfriend Will Sharpe, Megan Stalter ( Hacks ) cannot get over her former boyfriend. So wh...

An independent Regal Films production. Bored insurance man Dick Powell has to reclaim stolen goods from model Lizabeth Scott, falls for her....

Kim Novak deftly avoiding getting her bum slapped twice in Kiss Me Deadly . The way Audrey Hepburn manages to elude Gary Cooper in bedroom i...

Of course he co-wrote it, that's almost not worth even saying. It has all the perfect clockwork of any other great Wilder-Diamond screen...

Good plot and treatment - just the last half hour is boring, even though it's a big improvement on the novel's ending. Peter Hunt...

Perfect conclusion (or is it?) to the show, revived after a nine year gap, in four feature length films. It would be great to come back to i...

Written by Eleanor Perry, adapted from John Cheever novel. Novel? Say what now? No, a short story. That's more like it. A thirteen page ...

Exceptional noiry  thriller opens like Kafka. A man picks up a melancholy woman in a bar. They see a show together. The drummer ogles her. T...

Inspired by the true partnership between journalists Loretta McLaughlin (Kiera Knightley) and Jean Cole (Carrie Coon, The White Lotus, The P...

 Lorelai and Rory summoned us. Loved when Rory's fractured her arm and Lorelai sleeps in a chair at the end of the bed and we cut to her...

This film is just marvellous, and I don't quite know why. Farley Granger and especially Cathy O'Donnell are terrific as the virginal...

A beautifully designed and photographed modern film noir - credited art director is Edward Richardson but Ferdinando Scarfiotti designed it ...

Marvellously plotted legal thriller, well, no - not a legal thriller. A thriller about a law firm. A law firm in which every partner is marr...