Author: Rob Williams
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1998 – It Was A Very Good Year
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Ah 1998, what a year! Google was founded. Andrew Wakefield published his heavily manipulated study findings in The Lancet which lead to the whole Anti-Vax movement donning their tin foil helmets. The Good Friday Agreement brought relative peace to Northern Ireland. The International Space Station became international when the Unity and Zarya modules connected. The…
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Best Of British Biographies – Ruth Wilson
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in BiographyThe beauty of being the one who chooses which articles I write is, quite simply, I get to choose and I choose the people I like. I chose Danny Boyle and Christopher Nolan because I like their films. I chose Roger Allam because I love his voice. Bill Nighy is like your favourite uncle. Miriam…
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Coming Soon To A Screen Near YOU!!!
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Ever wanted to see your name up in lights? How about seeing them in the credits? I was idling through Twitter or X or whatever it is called nowadays, and came across a tweet from Matthew Butler-Hart. He was saying that a Kickstarter was being organised to get his latest film onto a screen…
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Documentary Review – Squaring The Circle
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I suppose you have to be of a certain type. You have to be of a certain age, a certain background, and have certain tastes. I saw that there was a showing of a documentary called Squaring The Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) and immediately thought “Oooh…that sounds interesting!” I mentioned it to my long…
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Barbenheimer!
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in BlockbusterIt’s not unheard of for two big films to be released in the same week. That usually boils down to being released on the same day. The Exorcist & The Sting, Die Hard & A Fish Called Wanda, The Matrix & Ten Things I Hate About You, and The Dark Knight & Mamma Mia are…
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Movie Review – Oppenheimer
I think it’s fair to say that Christopher Nolan is in the same category as Steven Spielberg, Danny Boyle, Tim Burton, Quentin Tarantino, and Luc Besson…directors who can “open” a film. It’s the sort of club that Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, and Akira Kurosawa would have been in were they still with us today. Oh,…
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This Year, In Hall H…
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in Movie NewsAh, as Dirk Gently once put it, the fundamental interconnectedness of all things. The old “a butterfly breaks wind in Tahiti and that leads to an earthquake in Upton Snodsbury” thing. Well, entomological flatulence affecting the geomorphology of a Worcester village may be pushing it a bit too far but I’ve never been scared of…
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Movie Review – Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
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And here comes one of the big titles that everyone is hoping will turn the tide of poor box office results. Personally I think it’s a bit like the whole working from home ethos that became so popular during the various lockdowns. People liked being able to roll out of bed and start working while…
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Indie Movie Review – 97 Minutes
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There seems to be a spate of films based on aeroplanes that have or are being hijacked. Gerard Butler recently had a go with Plane. Idris Elba is due to lead AppleTV+’s Hijack miniseries which launches this week; 28th June to be precise. Liam Neeson had a turn in 2014 with Non-Stop. And there are…
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Rewatch Review – Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol saw quite a few changes for the franchise; some more obvious than others. It is the first in the Cruise era to have a subtitle rather than a number. Apparently, Tom has never been a fan of numbered sequels as he’s always considered each film as a standalone feature in…
