5 min movie guide

  • SWIMMING TO CAMBODIA & AND EVERYTHING IS GOING FINE

    I have always had a bucket list of movies that for some reason or enough I have never got around too yet but am determined to watch before I leave this earth.  Swimming to Cambodia has been on that list for far too long, and when I finally saw it tonight with an over-excited Spalding Gray…

  • SIGHTSEERS

    Sometimes I can be a real glutton for pain (the cinematic kind I should quickly add).  As I state at the top of this Blog one of my big no-no’s are horror flicks, and yet hear I am again in a cinema (I’m back in London) to see yet another one from Brit Director Ben…

  • NOBODY ELSE BUT YOU

    Being a big-city boy I always think that any movie set in the midst of desolate windswept landscape must be in the middle of nowhere. This one is literally. The body in this murder mystery is found in a small stretch of ‘No Mans Land’ between the borders of Switzerland and France.  The nearest small…

  • HITCHCOCK

    In this year that Hollywood is becoming increasingly fixated about retelling some historical biographical lives, I guess it’s no surprise to see Alfred Hitchcock  on the list.  Not once however, but twice.  Although technically HBO’s ‘That Girl’ about Hitchcock’s obsession with Tippi Hedren starring Toby Jones and Sienna Miller was a Brit made-for -TV film. This…