Nick's Film Jottings

Distinctive, unusual Finnish drama featuring rapid cutting, moody lighting and weird angles tells of revolutionaries plotting rising against...

Novel and screenplay by David Nicholls, who just adapted Great Expectations  and Far From the Madding Crowd . We catch up with the progress ...

Utterly wonderful. Arms holding candelabras surely influence on Polanski's Repulsion  - scene where Josette Day runs through the hall an...

Uh oh. Can't believe I'd already bought this film once. At least realised we'd seen it before immediately. Not as funny as othe...

Helen Mirren good as always as Austrian refugee, Ryan Reynolds suitably restrained as her lawyer, Daniel Brühl is Viennese contact. Pleasing...

Not at all sure what to make of this at first, finding Dunham and girlfriends Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke and Zosia Mamet and their respe...

Maybe his best film, thoroughly admired  here . Some films you grow up with, some you grow up to  (this being one of the latter). Much qui...

Jack O'Connell is the unbroken title character in wrong-footed war film which dwells endlessly on torture - the Coen brothers are associ...

Title derived from a classroom assessment of 'Huckleberry Finn' - if an African immigrant can read it, so should I (one day). Thorou...

Well, we hadn't watched it since  December . Missed the flash at the beginning, despite looking out for it. Same comments as before. The...

Screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart and Walter Resich from the play 'Divorçons' by Victorien Sardou and Emile DeNajac, previously fil...

Film is half-asleep or I am. Don't understand or like the way high school debates work - speakingreallyquicklydoesn'tgetmessageacros...

The gentle-voiced madman Laird Cregar, Darnell shot by LaShelle, Herrmann score (clearly pre-shadowing Vertigo  in a couple of passages) - w...

I haven't seen Julian Mitchell's play but it would seem he's opened it up nicely into real locations populated by the bunch of b...

Warmly acted (by Judy Holliday and Paul Douglas) expansion of play (George Kaufman and Howard Teichmann) by Abe Burrows, with amusing scene-...

Lots of great location photography in cars (Burnett Guffey) - one of the edits is almost Godard Bout de Souffle . Somewhat daft story of cri...

Droll comedy (S.J.Simon and Caryl Barnes' novel 'No Nightingales' adapted by James Seymour) with neat visual and sound effects t...

Robert Downey Jr and Zach Galifianakis essentially reprise  Planes Trains and Automobiles , and whilst fun is also at times just plain wrong...

It might have been helpful for the title to have been explained (moved to adult prison). Searing drama in which you keep forgetting to bre...

Despite some amusingness involving pirates and David Tennant, film is quite a lot worse then the original, with a downright silly plot. Jodi...