Posts Tagged: Film

When I was seven my Mum and I spent a weekend with my Aunt and Uncle at their flat in Harrow. My Uncle was evidently tasked with entertaining me whilst my Mum caught up with her sister and he wisely decided upon the cinema. We were queueing to buy our tickets for a long forgotten… Continue Reading ›

I really enjoyed St Vincent, it came in under the radar and was a lovely surprise – so nice to see a film without preconceptions and expectations. Bill Murray is fabulous, right down to the end credits.

The recently released iPhone 6S and 6S Plus have a new feature called Live Photos which captures a moment of motion before and after your still photograph. In almost every review of the new iPhones Live Photos are likened to the moving images in The Daily Prophet the newspaper from the Harry Potter novels. But these reviews… Continue Reading ›

I’ve just been reading an interesting article about Jaws over on the Guardian. I hadn’t realised that Jaws essentially created the Hollywood Summer blockbuster; before Jaws Summer was a quiet period “why go to the movies when the sun is shining?”. It was also one of the first event movies, where “front loaded” marketing and promotion… Continue Reading ›

Bob Hoskins passed away today. I’m a huge Hoskins fan, but by far my favourite of his films is The Long Good Friday which has one of the best endings ever committed to celluloid. The way in which he conveys a range of emotions from surprise to anger to realisation and finally acceptance without speaking… Continue Reading ›

Last weekend we all headed out to the cinema to see Disney’s new animated CGI feature film Wreck-It Ralph; a return to form for Disney.  However, whilst Wreck-It Ralph is a great film, I was completely enchanted by the supporting short, the Oscar winning Paperman. I loved the story, and the wonderful ideas within, but I was… Continue Reading ›