Nick's Film Jottings

A rather sweet film, miles away from the crude hi-jinks the series became, properly underscored with the difficulties of being a medical stu...

What's going on here? The Furies are Roman mythological goddesses of vengeance. Well that fits insofar as Barbara Stanwyck is the strong...

We watched an introductory film by Eileen Atkins, who said she was sent such rubbish she might as well adapt Virginia Woolf's novel hers...

For me, this film is a bit of a mess. The exposition is clear enough - gangster Raymond Burr needs to get back to the US in disguise, decide...

A young old favourite, if you see what I mean. Of the kids, I would have to single out Emilia Jones for her grave seriousness - hope she...

Moira Buffini adapted John Preston. And it's not really about the dig, but the many relationships that we see in its orbit, notably betw...

Seemingly, a straightforward retelling of the original. The denouement is some bonkers - how would Marple know her friend would return to th...

Reminded we'd never seen this through Graham Norton rewatch featuring the sadly late Chadwick Boseman, who seemed like a good presence. ...

Not a film you can watch too often, though you have to love the pairing of Helen Mirren and Ian McKellan, and the twist is a doozy - the fla...

Another one of those multi-part things that sets you up with some distant past puzzle and you have to decide whether the journey is going to...

Been watching some of these old Joan Hickson versions, which I assume are more faithful to Agatha Christie's original stories. We know a...

Mr. Hunter!  What do you think you're doing producing such rubbish in 1962? (Let's not forget the powerful Douglas Sirk Universal - ...

Based on the first of Richard Osman's novels, adapted by Katy Brand ( Good Luck To You, Leo Grande ) and Suzanne Heathcote, neither of w...

Indian girl found dead; group of vicious girls (and boys) may be to blame. Woman writer, ex of the hood, investigates with help of former lo...

Thomas C Ryan adapted Carson McCullers' 1940 novel, which seems more complex. Deaf-mute Alan Arkin (fabulous), who moves in with family ...

I'm going to say go here . The sub-plot with the depressed daughter Tina (for some reason uncredited Janis Wilson) is a mirror to the ma...

 I'm gonna go with this one, though still love the line 'the happiest girls are the most beautiful girls'.

A simply extraordinary film, a whole life story of incredible event, romances, friendships and tragedies. It was - well, no, we had actually...

Yer feller Carney does something wonderful with music. There. Eve Hewson, Orén Kinlan, Joseph Gordon Levitt. Carney has Power Ballad  in pos...

More entertaining nonsense, with Danny Dyer - who's the main reason for watching. Though Harriet Webb and Fatiha El-Ghorri also fun.