The donkey from EO. Bless it.

A one-line spoiler-free review of everything I watched in the cinema in February 2023

I’ve never really been a movies person, they last too long and I always want the bar/toilet after 20 minutes like at a gig, which stresses me out. But I got myself a BFI and a Picturehouse membership and once…

Cate Blanchett in Tár.

A one-line spoiler-free review of everything I watched in the cinema in January 2023

I’ve never really been a movies person, they last too long and I always want the bar/toilet after 20 minutes like at a gig, which stresses me out. But I got myself a BFI membership and once a week I…

Ingrid Bergman in Notorious

A one-line review of each of the twenty weird and strange things I’ve watched at the cinema in 2022

Another new series, mainly for my benefit not yours. I’ve never really been a movies person as they generally last too long and I always want to go the bar and the toilet after about twenty minutes like it is…

Watching ‘South: Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Glorious Epic of the Antarctic’

I went to the BFI last week to see “South: Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Glorious Epic of the Antarctic”. Billed as “An extraordinary story of survival in the wastes of Antarctica” it is made of director Frank Hurley‘s footage from Shackleton‘s…

Spoiler-free review of Sparks and Leos Carax musical Annette

Spoiler-free review of Sparks and Leos Carax musical Annette

I’ve been to see the Sparks / Leos Carax musical Annette twice now, and here are my spoiler-free reckons … I went for a second time because, essentially, I wasn’t sure if I’d liked it the first time, but then…

Review: Sparks – What The Hell Is It This Time

Review: Sparks – What The Hell Is It This Time

I went to the BFI on Tuesday to see the world premiere of the Sparks’ concert movie What The Hell Is It This Time directed by Edgar Wright, with an introduction by the director himself. It seemed a little ill-publicised,…