Nick's Film Jottings

In fact Dinner  was released second, December 1967; Heat  was August. But what a year for American cinema - Bonnie and Clyde  also came out ...

Initially a rather cool film about how we've lost touch with the way things were better - that moment of 'Don't look it up on yo...

From Elmore Leonard novel. John Hawkes and Yaslin Bey hatch a plan to kidnap crooked property developer Tim  Robbins' wife Jen An and ho...

Duty and Honour . Adrian Meade. Another beheaded body is found in the woods. It all links back to soldiers in Iraq.  Some tasty co-stars: Ja...

Anger Management . The flamenco one. And Boyd in therapy. John Milne, Andy Hay Final Cut . The Performance  one. Stephen Davis. Cold Fusion....

Sins . Declan Croghan. Who beheaded the prison governor? Halfway through, I think his daughter (Alexandra Moen) bashed his head in and her c...

What's it all about, Freddie? A young woman restlessly tries to find happiness of some sort but doesn't, can't. Why? What in fac...

We were delighted to learn that season 2 has another 16 episodes; less delighted that Louisa's long lost brother Martin Shaw turns up fo...

We're on something of a Frederic Raphael retrospective. This was his Thomas Hardy adaptation. Why are they making this film at the heigh...

Written by Frederic Raphael, based on a short story by Stanley Ellin. In order to get on, Alan Bates enlists the help of fallen blue blood D...

Missing Persons . Declan Croghan. A woman who powerfully protects her children in a mugging is found to have DNA links to a 15 year old cold...

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A curious film, really, considering its beloved reputation.. there’s a clue right at the beginning - these people may be able to keep escapi...

Another Luc Besson idea (script) involving Jean Reno and a young girl - this time, a suddenly discovered daughter in Japan, Riyoko Hirosue. ...

Yes, I think I pegged it quite well here http://nicksfilmjottings.blogspot.com/2019/07/green-book-2018-peter-farrelly.html Had a couple of s...

Double Bind . Richard Warlow. The hippy trippy one. In the sixties a pioneering / deluded therapist helps patients by prescribing strong aci...

Should definitely be required watching for anybody thinking of taking up acting as a career. It’s not for the faint hearted. Moment where Ke...

Mask of Sanity . Laurence Davey & Declan Croghan. Nicholas Beveney is released from prison after serving term for three murders he's...

OK it's not quite as mad as the last one, but Deus Ex Machina  does begin with a man sewing his own lips together, cut against the Briti...

Fallen-from-grace Faye Dunaway was already looking weird through plastic surgery. She and girlfriend Claudia Christian have bumped off seria...