Nick's Film Jottings

Did they film these in lockdown? Prison episode brings back chaarcters from old story. Jack has a niece. New pathologist appears

Henry James' novel Washington Square inspired a play by Ruth and Augustus Goetz, which they adapted well for the screen: it doesn't ...

What do you expect - it's the season finale. Nerve gas is the bad guy and suspects drop like flies - including a friendly DS (Adelle Leo...

A body is found in a concrete pillar - turns out to be connected to girl who is cryogenically frozen. Hope , by Lena Rae, is thus something ...

Close to Home . Ed Whitmore. Young boy found in Hertfordshire - all the locals assume it's paedo Andre Flynn, but of course as anyone wh...

A private plane crashes. Is someone trying to encourage suicide? Deadhead  was written by Graham Mitchell.

Privileged but mixed up kid Kirsten Dunst gets herself involved with straight and hard-working Latino Jay Hernandez. And that's it, real...

Nikki's prognosis is challenged in court - turns out the evidence has been fiddled with - she's lost her heart. Betrayal  was writte...

Made in the Autumn of 1941 and released after Pearl Harbor in the New Year. Minor criminal 'Gloves' Humphrey Bogart discovers filthy...

Opens with a terrible song - not the way to do a war film. Robert Mitchum is the war correspondent who finally has to pick up a gun, and dec...

Meet yuppie lawyers Jack Davenport, Amita Dhiri, Andrew Lincoln, Daniela Nardini and Jason Hughes. Davenport alienates everyone by getting i...

I Swear Say Nothing . The Inspector Lynley Mysteries. One Battle After Another . Far fuckin' out, brother! Bird (Andrea Arnold) Le Nott...

Written with Maggie O'Farrell, based on her novel. And an interesting change of pace for Zhao, whose previous two films were very natura...

The Yes Minister  writer didn't write this one - that was Dale Launer, who sets up Ralph Macchio and Mitchell Whitfield for murder in Ge...

An Irishman's wife is blown up in a car bomb. He reacts suspiciously, either like he knows someone is after him, or he did it himself. W...

To Brighton, To Brighton . Involving the discovery of highly decorated Japanese tattooed body parts in said coastal town. Whilst we seem to ...

A strange hybrid, based on two biographical books, peppered with talking heads of friends, photos and film clips, but largely a dramatized T...

Divided Loyalties . Niall Leonard. Dead woman and baby. Drugs. 'Stukie'. The World Cruise.  Tony McHale. Auschwitz resurfaces. The F...

Based on a novel by Janice Hadlow (a good idea), adapted mainly by Sarah Quintrell (and Maddie Dai), directed by Jennifer Sheridan and Asim ...