Nick's Film Jottings

Ahead of his swinging London films comes Donner's singing Bristol film - and a refreshing change that makes, though the plot of teenager...

What's Imogen Poots up to with volatile chef Michael Shannon? This I can tell you - blink, and you'll miss the ending. Who's M...

Fresh off the back of the Mel Brooks movies, Wilder writes something similar and reassembles a key cast of himself, Madeline Khan and Marty ...

I always remember the scene where Hoffman begs the Puerto Ricans over the road to burgle his apartment, I'd just forgotten how great eve...

Written by Larry Gelbart and Blake Edwards, from a story by Margery Sharp. Film is great fun as Lemmon immediately falls for the Kim Novak...

A good triple bill began with - Kim Novak is particularly good at conveying emotionally vulnerable characters, never more so than in this,...

Have documented problems with this film elsewhere, but like the last one, a big factor in its success is - Simon Pegg.

Can't quite put my finger on why I love this one so much. Though yesterday this big thought did occur - Owen Wilson. Who says Woody do...

Why is Victoria  better than The Crown ? we began musing - well better than Season 2 anyway... it's partly that Victoria's characte...

Bruno Delbonnel joins the group with his wonderful low light offerings. Otherwise it's the usual Burwell, Jaynes, Zophres partnership, w...

It's very funny, has line after laugh out loud line, like 'What are you waiting for - the drilling season?' And as mentioned b...

William Goldman died November 16 - this was Q's choice of memorial. I remember not being too impressed by this the first time we saw ...

Yes, a very tight anti-war film, reminiscent of the Sven Hassel novels, though in fact based on Willi Heinrich's novel 'Das Geduldig...

Alcoholic former writer Morgan Freeman befriends lazy dog, woman and three daughters next door. I'm glad he moved in, because I'm no...

Written by the reliable Susannah Grant from Jennifer Weiner's novel. Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette, Shirley Maclaine, Richard Burgi, Mar...

Whilst experiencing the film in an uncomfortable 4x3 crop of whatever VistaVision shape it's supposed to be in, this is an interesting o...

Male Joyce Cary spent time in Africa and wrote 'Mister Johnson' in 1939, and the character was based partly on the letters of a loca...

From the sublime to the ridiculous... It's not as bad as some, though the tone is set in scene one with just pregnant Rose Byrne throwin...

Written by its stars Jessica Hynes and Simon Pegg, all of Edgar's later films are present in budding nascency here - Sean of the Dead  (...

That Time Out review that celebrates the film for its 'generosity of spirit' is exactly the right thing to say about this pinnacle o...