Commissioned to write a rom-com screenplay our leading man finds himself in a sticky situation, what’s that? He’s never been in love? (and he’s like mid 30s…) Narrator (Chris Evans) then goes out and meets and falls for Her (Michelle Monaghan). And gets really scared and stuff about it all especially as she already has a boyfriend (who we decide is a baddie because he is played by a Brit – big clue he is not the man for her).
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Raise the Titanic!
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)?
Draft Day
When you see Kevin Costner’s name attached to a project it can inspire fear for many; it’s hard to pinpoint when he fell out of favour but he has been overlooked for quite a few years now. So it was with trepidation that I embarked on watching Draft Day. Continue reading
“To me everything in film is incredible”
With her first feature, They Are All Dead, Beatriz Sanchis filmed in her home town of Madrid. She talks about her love of film and the lessons she learned on set. Continue reading
Snow in Paradise
Dave (Frederick Schmidt) is a small time criminal living in London who is trying to move up in the family business. A job he does for his psychopathic uncle Jimmy (Martin Askew) goes horribly wrong due to Dave’s ambitions outweighing his intellect and understanding of the rules of the underworld game. Continue reading
Andrew Hulme director of Snow in Paradise
Andrew Hulme director of Snow in Paradise, his debut feature, took some time out from work in LA to answer some of my questions. Continue reading
“You just have to do it, you have to put your feet on the ground and make a film”
Stephanie Joalland, originally from France, has made her debut feature here in the UK, The Quiet Hour is an intimate take on the alien invasion genre and was one of the gala films at Raindance 2014. She talks to us about her working life. Continue reading
Hockney
This documentary takes us through the life and career of great British artist and living legend David Hockney – considering it spans over 50 years this is quite an achievement. We learn about Hockney’s humble beginnings in Bradford to his life in Hollywood as a renowned artist. Continue reading
Director Lenny Abrahamson
I was able to prise the director away from his current project in an LA hotel to chat about Frank out this week on DVD.
How did you get involved with Frank?
4 years ago I got sent a script by my agent, it was a strange project, impossible to categorise and I thought “Am I really going to film this?” Continue reading
Still the Enemy Within
In 1984 the biggest workers union in the country went on strike – the coal miners’ strike was long and bitter and all over the media. From 1979 when she became prime minister Margaret Thatcher had always had a plan to crush the unions and privatise all that the post war Labour government had nationalised; coal being firmly in her sights. Continue reading
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