Nick's Film Jottings

Wednesday, 11 March 2026

Silent Witness has gone mad (2013)

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We don't think Rob Jarvis killed his wife and even investigating detective Christine Bottomley isn't sure - but her dad Christopher ...
Tuesday, 10 March 2026

Shrinking - Season 3 (2026)

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Jason Segel, Jessica Williams, Luke Tennie, Harrison Ford, Michael Urie, Lukita Maxwell, Ted McGinley, Christa Miller, Michael J Fox, Devin ...

Silent Witness - Season 16 (2013)

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Change  is right - there's no more Harry. Tom Ward had had enough. But, you know, he was our favourite character, so that's hard. Th...
Monday, 9 March 2026

Silent Witness: And Then I Fell In Love (2012 Timothy Prager)

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This - directed by Keith Boak - is the hardest watch of the series so far, as it deals with impressionable teenage schoolgirls being seduced...
Sunday, 8 March 2026

Roman Holiday (1954 William Wyler)

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When Audrey says she's aware of her responsibility and that's why she's come back; had she not been aware of it she may not have...

East of Eden (1955 Elia Kazan)

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John Steinbeck 'Cain and Abel' story adapted by Paul Osborn - the irony being that the 'bad' character is the better one. St...

La Cérémonie (1995 Claude Chabrol & co-scr)

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I wanted to see this as it was reportedly the only adaptation of a Ruth Rendall novel 'A Judgement in Stone' that she approved. (Cha...
Saturday, 7 March 2026

How To Murder Your Wife (1964 released 1965 Richard Quine)

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From the off, as Terry Thomas addresses the audience - the men  in the audience, as the wives wouldn't want to see this picture and are ...

Half Nelson (2006 Ryan Fleck)

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 Like though the credit 'A film by Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden' (she co-wrote and edited). Yes, see here . Anthony Mackie is as good a...

The Chatterley Affair (2006 James Hawes)

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Written by Andrew Davies, who has represented some of the trial itself - which now seems mad - including a Bishop who claims the book 's...

The Blue Boy (1994 Paul Murton & scr)

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Perhaps influenced by Don't Look Now, this uses water in a creepy way, as couple Emma Thompson and Adrian Dunbar on holiday in Scotland ...
Friday, 6 March 2026

Silent Witness (2012)

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Redhill . Ed Westmore. Andy Hay Good start. Leo is lying to Janet (Jaye Griffiths), is off on his own drinking. Then finds a crashed car, th...
Thursday, 5 March 2026

Tall Tales of Silent Witness (2012)

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Harry and Nikki had briefly met the participants in Domestic  (Richard Davidson / Anthony Byrne) and find there's been a trio of murders...
Wednesday, 4 March 2026

More Silent Witness (2011-12)

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Season 14 finale: The Prodigal . Michael Crompton. Director James Strong. Basically, a shooting in the Dutch Embassy, police shot and killed...
Tuesday, 3 March 2026

The Best Silent Witnesses

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

A Stressload of Silent Witness (2011)

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Not so much in the first one, First Casualty , by Oliver Brown and Michael Crompton, directed by Keith Boak. An army lieutenant is clearly s...

Walk A Crooked Mile (1948 Gordon Douglas)

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Another Edward Small production, for Columbia, saddled with a solemn and redundant voiceover which keeps telling us things which are bleedin...
Monday, 2 March 2026

Silent Witness Season 14 (2011)

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A Guilty Mind . Timothy Prager. Director Sue Tully. Three deaths in one night at hospital. Nikki in danger again  - no wonder she's refe...
Sunday, 1 March 2026

Unfaithfully Yours (1948 Preston Sturges and scr)

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Didn't think too much of it when we last saw it 13 years ago ; seems much better when reevaluated. Rex Harrison is funny from the off as...

Thunder on the Hill (1951 Douglas Sirk)

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A convent opens its gates to flooded villagers - and a young woman who is about to be executed for murdering her brother. But strong willed ...
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