Nick's Film Jottings

Robert Getchell adapted Tobias Wolff's autobiographical memoir. Robert de Niro, Ellen Barkin, Leonardo Di Caprio, Jonah Blechman, C...

The first three minutes and 40 seconds of Batman Begins  did not endear itself to me. Instead, this powerful study of corruption amongst lo...

Is this becoming a bit silly? (Dad going to see Lenny Bruce, getting arrested, letting loads of beatniks into the apartment, the outrageous ...

At the beginning, I was watching Renee Zellweger, by the end it was Judy Garland, in BAFTA (and probably by this time tomorrow, Oscar) winni...

A powerful film that hits you like a train, it's no wonder it didn't find an audience - there's only a handful of likeable chara...

Kirk Douglas died on February 5, aged 103. I'm glad to see he had been in our sights recently. Last year we saw his debut - as an alcoho...

'Confection'. Poison pen letters in picture postcard village. Murder at the Confectionery factory. Happy Families. A young widow tak...

Why are Shaun Evans and Roger Allam so good? How do they be so? It's a difficult question I found myself asking during episodes one and ...

A scrambled egg of a film, in which Harry Davenport should have received third billing (he's on screen way more than Eugene Pallette). I...

How I managed to talk my way into putting this on I have no idea - well, I guess by simply saying 'Marilyn Monroe, Howard Hawks'. I...

They grew up in the diamond trading district, that's how much I knew about it. The way Daniel Lopatin's odd music comes at you, wi...

"Sorry - I know it's your bed - but can you take your socks off?" Noah's Manhattan , shot in dark black and white by Sam...

Loved the guy that Maggie overhears on the train who won't believe she's not going to write up an article about it. There's a di...

With some other co-writers getting involved in the stories. Starts off everyone in trouble because they've broken a story involving the ...

Tough, taut western, written by Philip Yordan and Frank Burt, from Thomas Flynn Saturday Evening Post serial. We slowly learn that James Ste...

1959. The legendary sexpot Errol Flynn has died. His girlfriend becomes a gossip column target, particularly when her mum is arrested for dr...

Really quite poor, Julian Fellowes. The King is coming to stay and the faithful servants are all upset as the royal staff come in to take ov...

Written and produced by Eric Ambler (from his novel), with a fine score by William Alwyn, and inky black photography from Erwin Hillier, thi...

Lazy today - here's my review from 5 March 2017: Written by Scott Frank ( Out of Sight, Get Shorty ) and Don Roos ( Single White Fem...

Apart from the fresh insight that the two cigarettes thing is a substitute kiss, feel like repeating these reviews: Bette Davis sags under...