One afternoon in Canterbury recently I stumbled upon The Chaucer Bookshop, a second-hand treasure house that I realised I had last entered as a schoolboy some forty years ago. I was delighted to find that it was thriving in more
On Friday Netflix made available simultaneously all thirteen episodes of its House of Cards re-make (above). The serial, starring Kevin Spacey and directed by David Fincher, has had a mixed press - Alessandra Stanley for The more
I have my colleague Todd Macdonald to thank for the weekend's first clip: a timelapse panorama of the courtyard observed by Jeff (James Stewart, above) in Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window (1954). Todd was laid up with a bug for much more
Thanks to the eclectic and extraordinarily extensive DVD releases from Network we can now see a remarkable range of ITV programmes from the past forty or so years. Who would have thought that the obscure serial more
Another post from our archives, this time from 8 March 2011, when I was about to teach a very similar class to the one that I will give at the Royal College of Art tomorrow. I am delighted to be contributing more
I thought others might do this to mark the anniversary today of the publication of Jane Austen's great and glorious Pride and Prejudice. But as I've yet to see such an anthology, I thought I would make one for myself - more
I'm not going to apologise for leading again with Randy Moore's Escape from Tomorrow(above), the Sundance-premiered film that was shot in secret at Disney World and Disneyland. I particularly want to draw your attention to It's a mad, mad, more
A selection of interesting videos that I came across during the past week and - well, that's it really... Above is an image from the Saul Bass title sequence to Otto Preminger's Carmen Jones (1954), a film discussed by Christian more
Basil Dearden and Michael Relph's 1959 British noir Sapphire is a fascinating and fractured tale of the murder of a young 'coloured' woman who has been passing for white. She is found murdered on more
Richard II, David Tennant, Greg Doran, Royal Shakespeare Company, from 10 October. PS. Just seen that for fans of this production @EffieSian has come up with the hashtag #R2DT - genius! That's in addition to @TheRSC more