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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: September 2007
Bad meaning good
This week I unsubscribed from Mark Kermode’s weekly 5 Live podcast. I’ve recommended it before on here, but with his ridiculous rant about Superbad, in which the dread spectre of Andrea Dworkin was raised (now there’s an idea for a horror film), it’s become clear that he has lost touch with reality and is plainly stuck in orbit around Planet Kermode, a cold, dark, distant sphere in some far off galaxy currently being sucked into a black hole. Now I accept that Superbad …
Unreliable witnesses
Last week I saw Atonement and left the cinema overwhelmed with the feeling that I’d just witnessed a film that might be a modern classic; a film that makes you realise you’ve been happily surviving on formulaic fast food and now you’ve had a taste of the gourmet. I love the fact that it’s a British movie that dares to be unapologetically large scale. I love the fact that it plays narrative games and still manages to be moving. And I …
It’s a free download…
So here it is, the first of my shows from the Edinburgh International Film Festival, where I hooked up with screenwriter Paul Laverty to talk about his new film It’s A Free World and the past decade of writing screenplays with director Ken Loach. I actually met Paul ten years ago when he came to Birmingham to do a Q&A for his first film, Carla’s Song. I was working at the Electric Cinema and grabbed the chance to be the …
Camping it up
So anyway, I spent a large part of last weekend at the Podcamp UK (un)Conference in Birmingham where podcasters from all over Europe came together to talk all manner of things to do with podcasting. As with most things I attempt, my podcasting has involved me running blindly into a darkened room without turning the lights on and then attempting to cook an omelette, only later to find out I’m in the bathroom, not the kitchen. In short, I tend …
