Shadows on the Wall

I've been taking it a bit easier this week, catching up after the film festival. But there have been a few screenings to attend. First t...

Travelling home to visit friends and family, it's helpful that I was born in Los Angeles! Not only does this offer a chance to escape to...

October is a fairly insane month for a film critic in London, with several overlapping festivals at any given time, plus the onslaught of aw...

HAPPY NEW YEAR! Amid growing covid-related issues in the UK, London-based critics have had our first press screening of 2022: a masked-up fu...

Screenings are beginning to crank up as awards season begins. I'm a member of three groups of critics that give out year-end awards, and...

Lockdown continues to loosen here in Britain, with more people taking advantage of the government's August half-price eating out barga...

Yes, it's been yet another eclectic week in the screening rooms, as film critics scavenged for press previews of movies so we could wr...

I've hit the cinemas in California this week trying to catch up on press screenings I missed while away from London. Godzilla: King of...

As awards season begins to get serious (less than two weeks until my nominations deadlines begin in three groups), screenings are getting ...

This week, London-based critics finally got to see the latest Studio Gibli film When Marnie Was There, which is getting a very late relea...

Several big movies have been screened to London critics this week, including Joe Wright's Peter Pan prequel Pan , a flashy, big-scale ...

Before I left London last Thursday, the biggest film screened was Kevin Macdonald's submarine thriller Black Sea , starring Jude Law a...

It feels like months since I've done a regular weekly blog entry! (It was 7th October.) After the one-two punch of London and Abu Dhab...

London critics caught up this week with the clever black comedy Life of Crime , based on an Elmore Leonard novel and starring Jennifer An...

London critics had a double bill of Nicole Kidman this week, as she vamped her way through both Lee Daniels' The Paperboy and Park Ch...

John Hillcoat's neo-Western led the charge for London-based critics with press screening of his Cannes hit Lawless , a 1930s bootl...