Jeff Robson lives and works in London and has been a film fan since "watching classic old movies on TV as a kid, then getting a crash course in the Seventies Movie Brats through grainy prints projected onto a lecture theatre wall at university".
His self-published debut novel, Racing To Armageddon, which he describes as 'an old-fashioned Technicolor World War Two thriller with a dash of early Bond', is now available to buy on Amazon. He also writes for the Independent and you can read his recent TV review here.
Every image drives the story on, or highlights the characters’ tragedy.
Restored version of the Lean classic sees an idealistic poet/physician and the fiancée of a political activist meet and fall in love against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution.
It’s a wonderfully subversive act...but on its own merits (which I’m sure is how Panahi would want it to be judged) it seemed to me overlong, repetitive and self-indulgent.
An Iranian director forbidden to make movies works as a taxi driver, and installs hidden cameras in his cab…
Russell takes a full-tilt approach to bringing DH Lawrence’s novel alive on screen in all its earthy, sensual – and often ludicrously overblown – glory.
Two sisters in a mining town in the 1920s fall in love with two contrasting men.
Dmytryk keeps it all ticking along nicely with the assurance of an old pro, while giving all the central relationships and subtler nuances room to breathe.
Restored Western. A town terrorised by a rancher’s thugs hires a professional gunfighter to bring order.
The taut, literate screenplay is always cohesive and displays a frankness regarding the earthier aspects of the story that a Hollywood film of the time could simply never have countenanced.
A family from the rural south fight for unity and purpose in post-war Milan.
As it progressed, Jay’s enthusiasm for the ruling passion of his life, and McCallum’s paternal affection for his somewhat unworldly bezzie mate, won me over.
A Canadian gaming fan sets out to acquire all 678 Nintendo games.
McEnery-West turns his restrictions to virtues, creating a nightmarish, hermetically sealed world where his audience share the protagonists’ sense of brutal dislocation.
The residents of a tower block find themselves sealed in when a lethal infection breaks out…
For me, and I suspect an entire generation, this is the definitive, almost faultless, take on one of English literature’s most powerful and evocative works.
In 19th century Wessex, a young woman inherits a farm and attracts the attention of three contrasting suitors.
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