Four Frames: The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges, 1941)
Shakespeare told us love is blind, although there are those who insist he stole it from Chaucer. It is Preston…
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Screengem: The spittoon in Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1959)
Old pals John Wayne (as Sheriff John T. Chance) and Ward Bond (as Pat Wheeler, soon to be murdered, shot…
Four Frames: The Irishman (Martin Scorsese, 2019)
MATTHEW 25, 6: And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him….
THOUSAND WORDS: I Don’t like Netflix (oh no – I love it)
I AM NOT anti-Netflix. Of course not. Let’s face it – without Netflix, we wouldn’t have Roma. What’s that? Have…
Four Frames: God’s Own Country (Francis Lee, 2017)
Love is patient and kind, love is not jealous or boastful, it is not arrogant or rude. – 1…
Lost Classic: Taylor Sheridan’s Wind River
Taylor Sheridan’s Wind River (2017) pitches us into an unforgiving wintry environment and declares once and for all, as if we…
Four Frames: Split (M. Night Shyamalan, 2016)
(Warning: This article contains plot spoilers) M. Night Shyamalan has undergone an identity crisis. The writer, director, and bit-part ‘actor’…
Four Frames: John Wayne (1907 to 1979)
Mark Cousins, Northern Ireland’s acclaimed documentary filmmaker, said one of the things that first helped him realise there was more…
Screengem: Maureen’s Mobile Phone in Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas, 2016)
Nothing can distract from the audience’s cinema experience more than a mobile phone. But in his exquisitely enigmatic, always intelligent…
