Author: Rob Williams
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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…
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Indie Movie Review – End Of Term
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It’s funny how things work out sometimes. One of my sources of films to review is the dynamic duo at Aim Publicity…I know them as Deb and Polly. The other day I was sent a screener for a film called End Of Term with a note that included… “I’m just sending over a screener for…
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Short Movie Review – The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Oh my word, this brings back memories! Back in my first round of college days I was an avid reader of Roald Dahl’s short story collections. I can still remember reading Someone Like You, Kiss Kiss, and Switch Bitch whilst lying on the bed in my room. I can also remember the downside of a…
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Indie Movie Review – Fear The Night
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Well, this is a turn up for the books! A hen party goes out to a house in the middle of nowhere. They have a run in with some local men who are planning a robbery and have some hormones to burn off. There’s a bit of a face off as one of the men,…
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Indie Movie Review – The Reverend and Mrs. Simpson
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It’s funny how some things jog your memory. By that I mean funny peculiar rather than funny ha ha. One memory that came to mind was from when I was, about, four or five. There was a TV programme which ran weekly in an early evening slot called All Our Yesterdays. The idea behind it…
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Indie Movie Review – Dark Asset
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Films featuring someone who has been “enhanced” are far from rare. They range from being almost completely replaced (Robocop), to just being reprogrammed (The Matrix), via chemical alteration both accidental (Lucy) and deliberate (The Bourne Legacy). And then again, there are whole swathes of films which have people getting a chip inserted into them; Kingman:…
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Indie Short Review – Gale: Stay Away from Oz
Wow! I am being spoiled recently with independent short films. A couple of weeks ago I got to see the marvellous To Fire You Come at Last and today it is Gale: Stay Away from Oz. The first email I got just had the title listed as Gale and I didn’t immediately make the connection…
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Indie Movie Review – Final Summer
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Last year there was a meme doing the rounds about Top Gun being top of the box office figures, Kate Bush being top of the charts, America and Russia were facing off in another cold war, and inflation was going through the roof. The punchline was along the lines of finding ourselves back in the…
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Indie Movie Review – Another Day To Live Through
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A lot of films claim to have a dream-like quality but, usually that just means that they are being exceptionally bizarre. People walking around with a rabbit’s head or wearing strange costumes while dancing through an alien landscape. Personally though, my dreams are much more mundane. Usually involving me pottering around and talking to random…
