Daughter, who's featured on this blog a few times before, has now become a blogger in her own right. (It feels very strange, I can tell you!)Using her pen name, Shmonn, she writes about film, her great passion (while mine is theatre…apple not so far from the tree..) in a very fresh and modern way. … [Read more...]
Three films I want to see this autumn
One of the reasons I like September, and autumn in general, is that after a long, hot summer (ok, perhaps not in the UK) it's again time to go to the cinema. During the summer months it doesn't somehow seem right to step into a darkened room and spend two hours watching a large screen. But when the … [Read more...]
A Royal Affair – a new Danish film
A few years ago an award-winning Swedish novelist, Per Olov Enquist, wrote The Visit of the Royal Physician dramatising the true story of an illicit affair between the mad King Christian's physician and the English born queen of Denmark, Caroline Mathilda. In the early … [Read more...]
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
I was very sceptical about watching a Hollywood version of the first book in the wonderful Millennium trilogy by Stieg Larsson. Although I felt the Swedish films left a lot to be desired, mainly because the plot of the books was completely mixed up between the three films, they had some … [Read more...]
London life: Sunday night is movie night
I've written before about how, when we moved up to London from the country, we promised ourselves that on every Sunday night we'd go to the cinema. In spite of an initial poor start to this plan, we've recently seen a few more films.Last weekend it was Barney's Version, a film which wasn't exactly … [Read more...]
