formerly Mad Cornish Projectionist.
The making of Hollywood hits such as the latest James Bond film No Time To Die and Sam Mendes’s 1917, as well as prestige dramas such as Netflix’s The Crown and the BBC’s His Dark Materials, fuelled a record spend … Continued
Call yourself a cinephile and you’ve never heard of Alice Guy-Blaché? Don’t worry, most film-makers haven’t heard of her either. But we all should have done. In fact, there should be statues of her and cinemas named after her. At … Continued
Audiences at these little independent theatres and cinemas can be sure of an intimate experience, especially in a venue on wheels that seats just eight Sol Cinema, touring While its claim to be the “smallest cinema in the solar system” … Continued
Hollywood’s monsters were exposed, streaming services embraced auteurs and ‘motion smoothing’ made the movies look like daytime TV he long decade closes with no consensus on what we were supposed to call it (the “teens”?) nor about what ground has … Continued
In this golden age of binge-watching, I’m consumed by a nostalgia for what I feel is disappearing If you’re anything like me, what shared emotional life you might still have is mostly achieved by mainlining shows on a streaming service … Continued
Period between Christmas and New Year is utilised for activities from ice-cold swimming to birdwatching When Christmas is over and you are getting ready for the dawn of the new year, it can be tempting to hibernate indoors, watching Home … Continued