Author: Rob Williams
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Indie Movie Review – Christmas At The Holly Day Inn
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Ah, the way that the film industry plays with the calendar! We haven’t had Hallowe’en yet and the Christmas films have started! Fortunately, I’m more of a Santa guy than a spooky guy. So, flick on the Gemütlichkeit switch and let’s see what we have to start with. It turns out that we have Christmas…
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Film Review – Anatomy Of A Fall
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I was fortunate enough to get advance screening tickets for Anatomy Of A Fall or Anatomie d’Une Chute as the original title has it. I had seen the trailers over the last couple of months and thought that I might enjoy it. I mean, I hardly ever stop wanging on about my love of performances…
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TV Review – Mrs Sidhu Investigates
Yes, I know that we are, primarily, a cinema based site but I thought I would branch out for a wee bit. The TV programme that has led me to this is called Mrs Sidhu Investigates and it was sent by my friends at Aim Publicity; the show launched last month and gets a DVD…
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Indie Movie Review – 8 Found Dead
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Sometimes you develop expectations about a film without any real justification. A young woman, Jessie (Jenny Tran), is driving out to a holiday home to prepare it for the new tenants. It is. remote, isolated, and so far off the beaten track that you’d need tracker dogs to find the track let alone the cabin.…
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Documentary Review – The Pigeon Tunnel
There is a more than somewhat axiomatic saying dished out to aspiring writers…“Write what you know.” This can be good advice. If you wish to write a series about that misadventures of a group of teachers then it is a definite bonus to have spent some time working as a teacher. If you are writing…
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20th Anniversary Rewatch Movie Review – Runaway Jury
I’ve said elsewhere that Runaway Jury is one of my go to, no think, easy watch options. Given that it will be twenty years old this year, I thought I’d better have a go at explaining why I enjoy it so much. I suppose it has to be the combination of a great cast and…
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Indie Movie Review – The Price We Pay
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There are some films which have an ending that is obvious from the first few minutes. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing though! For instance, I defy anyone to watch the first ten minutes of Strictly Ballroom and not be able to say how it will finish but that doesn’t stop it from having a…
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Movie Review – The Miracle Club
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Two weeks running I have got to see a new film with some old, established faces. Not specifically old as in of advanced years, more a question of having a vast and venerable body of work behind them. Last week it was Michael Caine and Glenda Jackson in The Great Escaper. This week it was…
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Movie Review – The Great Escaper
This was one of those films that I went to see with my wife. We had a nice lunch and went for an afternoon showing. Before going we had imagined it was going to be along the same lines as The Last Bus or The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry. To be honest, I had…
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Best Of British Biographies – Michael Gambon
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in BiographyThere are times when the events of the world overtake you. I had planned on writing a mini biography of the very wonderful and talented Michael Gambon. What I didn’t expect was for it to be pushed up the list as an obituary. Mind you, he was eighty two so it shouldn’t have been a…
