Nick's Film Jottings

Watchable 'B' crime drama with a difference - the detective is an insurance assessor played reasonably charismatically by Porridge ...

Begins with a high speed bus ride, driven by Beat the Devil 's Ivor Barnard (whilst eating his lunch). Soon we're in the madcap mano...

Rosaline Keating Shaffer's story 'Finger Man', scr. Ben Markson, Lille Hayward. Typically zippy and entertaining Warner Bros. ...

Levy's a producer/director, responsible for the Night at the Museum  films and The Spectacular Now. Rose Byrne is Jason Bateman...

Claire Foy inadvertently gets herself committed (by not reading what she's signing) only to find the stalker she's fled from (Joshua...

From the sublime to the ridiculous, and supporting my contention that 1963 was largely a crap year for movies. From the Carry On producer/di...

If you're looking for close ups of hands and feet, look no further. Incredibly elliptical film has to be watched closely to make sense. ...

Scorching film based on Ron Stallworth's own account. Tale of detectives John David Washington and Adam Driver (very restrained here) im...

Good ensemble cast led by Rob Brydon of Rupert Graves, Jim Carter, Daniel Mays, Thomas Turgoose, Adeel Akhtar and Charlotte Riley, with Nath...

Kenneth More chose this to represent a more serious role, a failing actor struggling with the breaks - that is caught really well and he is ...

Another Thomas / Betty Box collaboration, which began with The Clouded Yellow , also featuring Kenneth More, an adaptation of ex Doctor Rich...

Thoroughly silly film doesn't work for me, contains about six funny things. Carell and Wiig together quite funny. Immediately disposable...

Extensive thoughts here . Rozsa's score gives the whole thing an eccentric and mournful quality, and it has a mythbusting air about it -...

Was a graphic novel by J.N. Ken Niimura and Joe Kelly - the latter wrote the screenplay. Before this, Anders had only made shorts. Imogen ...

I really tried to like it... Clearly there's nothing wrong with the cast at all - Jack Lemmon, Elaine May and Peter Falk (and Nina Wayne...

Written by Jennifer Saunders, we thought this was going to be true crap, but actually quite enjoyed mad tale - having the requisite number o...

It was Selznick's idea to film his own favourite 'David Copperfield'. It was a huge hit both here and in the US. Personally I fi...

The Apartment is at 51 West 67th (but the exteriors were actually at 55, West 69th Street, according to Culture Trip .). This is the sort of...

Well, he actually includes the cast in the writing credit. Neil Maskell ( No Offence, Eric, Ernie and Me, Humans ) arranges a family get-tog...

Yes, didn't like 45 Years ,   did like this - adapted from Willy Vlautin's novel. Charlie Plummer (no relation) grows to care for St...