This release on DVD and Blu-ray is part of Network Distributing’s ‘The British Film’ collection. I recall watching this on TV as a child and being pretty impressed, how would I find it decades later and post-Cameron (James not David)?
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The Quick by Lauren Owen
Without giving too much away this modern gothic pays homage to the great canon that came before it. Set in an imagined underground culture of Victorian London there is a definite steampunk feel to this tale. Continue reading
Boy Nobody by Allen Zadoff
Apparently “Boy Nobody” has attracted strong interest from Sony Pictures who are looking at a producing a movie adaptation starring Jaden Smith. If they are looking for the latest young adult franchise to make a mint out of this could well be it. Continue reading
Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo
I saw the trailer for this recent Cronenberg offering and didn’t get around to seeing it in the cinema and at the time I didn’t realise that it was based on a Don DeLillo book of the same name. At just a couple of hundred pages long this is a racing read and appears to be dying for the film adaptation especially by someone who brought us A History of Violence and Eastern Promises . Continue reading
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