Nick's Film Jottings

Based on the silly book 'Das Doppelte Lottchen' (1949) by Erich Kästner (would you really separate twins?) which by this time had al...

Can't believe I took exactly  the same screen shot for my  2012 review .

Terrific clashes of action and domesticity in Coward's propaganda film, useful in post-Brexit days as a reminder we once were brave, str...

Whatever happened to Savage Steve Holland? (Answer: TV.) This was his debut, followed by One Crazy Summer  (also with John Cusack) and How I...

MTV production, feature debut of (mainly TV) Kasdan, who's Lawrence's son, shows paternal connections (Kevin Kline cameo, appearance...

Based loosely on  a Cornell Woolrich story (adapted by Roy Chanslor), we open with a spectacular trick shot which leaps from Dan Duryea (top...

Beat the similar Friends with Benefits  (which gets name-checked) to release by six months. Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman make a good...

Gangster Paul Muni (not the greatest actor) arrives in a low-budget and unimaginative hell, no worse than a stoker room on an old ship, but ...

Based on an I.A. Bezzerides novel 'Long Haul' (1938) which shares the same truckers' world of his 'Thieves' Market' ...

Claudette Colbert, an author called George, meets marines John Wayne and Don DeFore on a train where there is some hiding of real identity. ...

Enjoyed this more than the last couple of times - it's difficult to resist Owen Wilson, Paul Rudd and Reese Witherspoon at the best of t...

Fantastic cast: Tim Roth, Phil Daniels (excellent), Gary Oldman, Marion Bailey ( Mr Turner, All or Nothing ), Alfred Molina, Jeffrey Robert,...

Marisa Tomei (Bridget Fonda was apparently first choice) is annoyingly hung up on a destiny with someone (anyone) called Damon Bradley in Di...

Devastating, beautiful and heart-wrenching, Kedzierzawska's economical film is seriously well shot (by Arthur Reinhart, who also edited,...

Look no further than  here . It was good to watch back-to-back with Nuts in May  as it's kind of from here.

We were going to watch The Naked Gun  when Q discovered that Caroline Aherne had died. That then didn't seem appropriate so we went for ...

A funny and stylish affair, written by Steve Martin and realised by Brits Jackson and cinematographer Andrew Dunn, charming music by Peter M...

Daniel Clowes adapted his own comic book (apart from the superheroes, one of the first such adaptations?) with Zwigoff.  Thora Birch and Sca...

Is it a comedy? Not really, it's a two-hander play, essentially, set one afternoon in an LA shopping mall, examining the state of 24 yea...

From a short Dostoyevsky story 'White Nights', this is the 'Liverpool copy' of Bresson's ultra-rare movie. With its freq...