Lists, lists… nothing but bloody lists. It’s that time of the year again, and a chance to look back at the films that have thrilled, moved or excited me during the last year. And then some of the turkeys of the movie season. While some of these were released in 2014, they only reached my … Read more
When I was a 10-year old kid my favourite TV programme was Gerry Anderson’s U.F.O. and my favourite EVER episode of that was one called “Survival”. In it, Colonel Paul Foster (the late Michael ‘nearly Bond’ Billington) was stranded believed dead on the moon a hundred miles from Moonbase with diminishing oxygen supplies and with the … Read more
The Monuments Men is allegedly a true story (though I suspect rather embellished) of a mission by allied art lovers to save the wealth of public and private art from being captured by Nazi Germany and/or destroyed on Hitler’s death. The real life photos over the end-titles indicate that it certainly wasn’t all made up. … Read more
Elysium is the follow up film from Neill Blomkamp to his much (and quite rightly) lauded intelligent sci-fi film “District 9”. Many of the themes of that classic – prejudice and segregation – are similarly played out in this film, with the focus this time being on rich and poor and the gulf that separates … Read more
Behind the Candelabra is not for the prudish or the homophobic. It tells the no holds barred story of Lee Liberace – an entertainer who astonishingly hid his homosexual status for over 50 years behind a smoke-screen of self promotion and law suits: an age before twitter and the internet, where the only expression for … Read more