Away for the weekend, and as we arrived at a London hotel we noted a cavalcade of vehicles and a galley of actors in costume sitting on the pavement smoking and drinking, waiting to be called to set. Luckily enough a kind hearted steward allowed us access to view more closely the chosen location, a hidden […]

My favourite film is a grand old 40 this year, Peter Hall’s 1974 free form adaptation of Suffolk born Ronald Blythe’s portrait of the vanishing English village culture, Akenfield (1969). It is a masterpiece of rural social commentary, an improvised folkscape of a county long gone from the turn of the century to the beginning […]

So, is there any substance in a yarn about an FBI agent and two con-artists trying to pull off a bigger con on bigger fish who live on Capitol Hill? Well yes. The narrative is based very loosely on ‘a sting op’ that took place in the late 1970’s, but at the start of this […]

Watched many times and it just such a perfect piece of film. Exquisite. Great cast. The chemistry between Rene Russo and Brosnan smoulders and then ignites. The plot is breathtaking with a winding narrative which never fails to enthral. Cinematography at its best with searing set pieces – gliding and catamaran sequences a tour de […]

Harrison Ford with lines riven on his face is a long way from Star Wars or Blade Runner in this fairly comic view of interplanetary conflict. He is Colonel Hyrum Graff and his mission is ‘to school’ only the best brains – young children, that can save Earth from the Formics – a race of […]