Susan Hill's long running and critically acclaimed play comes to the big screen courtesy of director James Watkins and screenwriter Jane Goldman - with positive results.
Where is the horror film at in 2012?
The horror genre on screen seems to be at a crossroads at the start of 2012. Whilst there were individual horror films of interest released in 2011, there seemed to be little coherent sense of unifying trends, and the good films were greatly outnumbered by sequels, remakes, and rehashes that seem to come from the minds of studio accountants rather than storytellers.
Now that christmas is over, I hope to try and update my blog more regularly in 2012. Below are some latest random ramblings from me on films and stuff: Film > Shame: opening at cinemas today (Friday 13th January), this is movie making at its very best.
In all my years watching and writing about films I have never kept a list of films that I have viewed in a particular year so I haven’t been able to have an exact number of what I’ve viewed or break down my viewing habits.
Cafeteria - Charing Cross Road, London - 0 Stars
This could probably be dubbed Eggclipse Part One from the Whyshite Trilogy. As advertised on the Chrisandphilpresent podcast, this is the story about how not to fry an egg.
Like many graphic designers I've settled on WordPress as my CMS of choice. I've heard developers talking about the core code being bloated and messy, but to be honest, I never look that deeply - to me it's flexible, intuitive, and does what I want (most of the time).
There’s something about Broderick
I think I can remember a Tarantino quote, something along the lines of, “some people like movies, and some people like the movies they like.
Hate your kids? Considering voodoo? Cut out the middleman
It is long overdue. Chris invited me to join his team many months ago, hoping to package and commodify my intense rage for the audience of his website.
