If I could bring anyone, I would bring someone whose heart has been in this vision of exploration all along, but wasn’t yet seen. Cady Coleman has been part of two space shuttle missions, and in 2011 lived and worked on the ISS for nearly six months. Now retired, she continues to advocate for inclusion… The Wonderful: Stories From The Space Station interview — astronaut Cady Coleman Read More
NEW Copshop clip: “Drop the gun…”
Fabulously sleazy cops ‘n’ killers thriller Copshop is out now in UK cinemas, and it’s well worth checking out. Watching it gives you the kind of dopamine surge you get from eating a massive donut while hiding behind a sanctimonious tome on clean eating: naughty but so good (not unlike Gerard Butler himself, one assumes). Butler… NEW Copshop clip: “Drop the gun…” Read More
Writer-director Conor Boru on his murder mockumentary When The Screaming Starts
“Imagine Louis Theroux meets the Manson Family…” Conor Boru With so much blood it’s even gushier than a BAFTA ceremony full of luvvies, serial killer mockumentary When The Screaming Starts has a particularly British sensibility to it, what with its David Brent-like main character, Aidan, who wants to become a mass murderer, the campervan-driving documentary… Writer-director Conor Boru on his murder mockumentary When The Screaming Starts Read More
BLOG — the film club tracks Missing 411: The Hunted 3 stars
I love the outdoors — walking, jogging, being dragged along by my dog while walking or jogging — though the UK is so small I’m not sure it actually qualifies as the “great” outdoors. Not like the US, with its vast, remote woods and mountains, beautiful but sometimes dangerous. The most frightening outdoorsy thing that… BLOG — the film club tracks Missing 411: The Hunted Read More
“It’s just a flesh wound!” Separating Green Knight fact from fiction with Ralph Ineson
Ineson plays the not-so-jolly green giant in David Lowery’s upcoming movie The Green Knight, which also stars Dev Patel as Sir Gawain. A24 have now released this short film Legends Never Die: An Oral History of ‘Sir Gawain and The Green Knight,’ narrated by Ineson — a crash course on the 14th century epic poem that… “It’s just a flesh wound!” Separating Green Knight fact from fiction with Ralph Ineson Read More
BLOG: The horror! Something else I’ve been mispronouncing for literally my whole life
And if that sounds like hyperbole, can I point out that hyperbole is probably one of the few words I have been pronouncing correctly (hi-PERR-bol-ee, bol-eev it or not). “We are so much more than our names,” purrs Gerard Butler’s lusty count sexily in Dracula 2000. I mention him because, well, I always do if… BLOG: The horror! Something else I’ve been mispronouncing for literally my whole life Read More
LAW ABIDING CITIZEN: episode 7 of the GERRYSTORM podcast
Horribly violent. Morally bankrupt. Batshit from the first minutes. And I say that as someone that liked Law Abiding Citizen. This time I chatted to the delightful Harris Dang, all the way from Australia, about this B-movie thriller from 2009. Gerard Butler plays Clyde Shelton, a mysterious man seeking revenge a decade after his wife… LAW ABIDING CITIZEN: episode 7 of the GERRYSTORM podcast Read More
INTERVIEW: Matt & Tori Butler-Hart on their parallel universe lockdown movie
I was offered a regular role in a well-known TV soap back in 2004/5 and turned it down… I do wonder what *that Matt* is up to. Read my 4-star review and watch the trailer — and check out my (very spoilery) article on the film. Tori and Matt Butler-Hart, the wife-and-husband team behind Fizz… INTERVIEW: Matt & Tori Butler-Hart on their parallel universe lockdown movie Read More
Holy BeeGees-us! My journey from eh? to bee
It happened so quickly. One day I was watching Frank Marshall’s new Bee Gees documentary for the first time, coming to it with a rough memory of their disco years coupled with a vague understanding of a half-life before and after, culminating in them walking out of a 1997 interview with hilarious chat show host… Holy BeeGees-us! My journey from eh? to bee Read More
Director April Wright: “They always say, once a stuntwoman, always a stuntwoman and it’s absolutely true.”
“To know [women did these stunts] 100 and something years ago erases the question of ‘can they do it now?’ Well of course they can do it now. Look at what they did back then.” April Wright Women have been jumping from moving motorbikes onto moving trains for our movie pleasure since the 1910s. April… Director April Wright: “They always say, once a stuntwoman, always a stuntwoman and it’s absolutely true.” Read More
Let’s go (back) to the movies: flashbacks to film memories
Thinking about what to call these lockdown reminiscences – about films and cinemas – I was reduced to googling the full lyrics to Memory as a joke. It turns out they’re worryingly apt, so we may yet find that Cats becomes the voice of cinephiles rather than their punchline. That’s one hell of a “new… Let’s go (back) to the movies: flashbacks to film memories Read More
“All this, because of a puppy?” Me to me, after writing 4,000 words on the John Wick trilogy…
“You dip so much as a pinky back into this pond, you may well find something reaches out and drags you back into its depths”, says Winston to John in the first John Wick film, but he ignored the warning and so will we. It’s going to be a bumpy, rain-soaked night… Since the first film,… “All this, because of a puppy?” Me to me, after writing 4,000 words on the John Wick trilogy… Read More