Welcome back to Late To The Movies, one woman’s attempt to learn about the history of cinema and fall in love with films as an art form. After watching some of the first-ever movies last month, I...
At what age should you put aside your childish ambitions, your youthful dreams, your hopes of stardom? When should you admit defeat, admit failure, submit to adulthood? Mid 20s? Early 30s? Never? In...
“The actor is a moving space” Michelangelo Antonioni told his star Jack Nicholson, the actor most identified with the New Hollywood of the 1970s. In The Passenger, Nicholson takes Antonioni at...
Mitchell Lichtenstein's 2007 horror-comedy Teeth is transgressive and it’s hilarious. It's kind of terrible, but as part of that brilliant cinematic genre of good-terrible, resulting in a feminist...
When Grenfell Tower burned down in a mass of out-of-control flames in June 2017 in London, firefighters had never seen anything like it. Questions were asked about how this had been allowed to...
Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, a tale of love, loss, wealth and excess, is now 100 years old. Over at Five Books For this month we've been looking at classics that are quicker reads and this is...
July 13 marked the 35th anniversary of the release of Ghost, a film that has left an important mark on the history of cinema, particularly in the romantic genre. Starring actors Patrick Swayze, Demi...
It would be fair to say that, generally speaking, I'm not much of a movie person. While others can quote entire scenes from their favourite films or debate the merits of different directors, I've...
In 2002, 28 Days Later rampaged roughshod over our screens in a bloody, ghastly rage, fuelled by 9/11, the Invasion of Afghanistan, the War on Terror, and the growing threat of an illegal war with...
Today, June 19, Pixar's Inside Out celebrates its 10th anniversary, and it's the perfect opportunity to remember the most valuable life lessons and emotional intelligence that this brilliant and...
