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Touchstone (3. All the Time in the World)
Baby, baby, baby… you’re out of time… Rachel, lost and alone... read more
Ghosts on the Moor
Three women spend Christmas in a remote cottage on Dartmoor to escape problems... read more
Lovers in Paris
Can your love live up to the most romantic city in the world? It’s Disneyland... read more
Touchstone (2. Family at War) – a time travel Blitz story
The unforgettable fire… Continuing the adventures of Rachel and Danny, a... read more
Meet me in Montmartre
New Year’s Eve. An English girl. A French boy. A blind date. A kiss... read more
The Striker’s Fear of the Open Goal
Get a life. Get the girl. Get to Wembley. Ewan Glumie was born on the day Man... read more
The Budapest Breakfast Club
This summer: Go to Budapest… Make a movie… Have an affair. Ten... read more
The Very Thought of You
What happens when you fall in love with a woman who died before you were born?... read more
Train Can’t Bring Me Home
Love. Literature… and Tom Waits. Lots of Tom Waits. 1993. The former... read more
The Girl with the Bomb Inside
School is shit, your hero killed himself and your girlfriend’s pregnant.... read more
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Monthly Archives: February 2007
Dial empathy for murderer…
So anyway, I finally got around to seeing Perfume tonight, and I loved it so much I want to have its babies. Yes, I know I was the one who ranted about the insane criminality of voice-overs that aren’t by characters within the film, but fuck it, this one works. Maybe it’s because the omniscient narrator is a pre-twentieth century literary tradition, so it seems right in a film like this for exactly the reason it feels wrong in a film like …
Porn – The Second Coming
Chick Lit is finished and ‘Posh Porn’ is the latest fix, says novelist Andy Conway. When I was 14 I spent a Saturday night at the flat of my 19-year-old sister and her boyfriend. She’d moved in with him and embarked on a brave new world of adult independence, a world where you could watch what you want on the telly (it was in the days before every kid had their own TV or you got a call from social …
The Innocents
When the Curzon Cinema in That London announced a screening of the excellent and much overlooked Brit film The Innocents, I had to grab a chance to rave about a little known classic. The Innocents is one of those films you see as a kid and it leaves an indelible mark on you. Then you catch it again as an adult and expect it to be naff, but no, it still scares the absolute shit out of you. And not in …
