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Blog posts by year and monthSeptember 2015

Posts (9)

  1. Exit Strategies

    Exit Strategies

    Robert DeNiro made headlines when he walked out of an interview about his new film The Intern recently. It happened to me once - not an experience I enjoyed...

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  2. Elvis Lives

    Elvis Lives

    There’s a brilliant new documentary out today about the mysterious masked Elvis Presley impersonator known as Orion. Here’s a bizarre footnote to his tale…

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  3. Mary Poppins of Mars?

    Mary Poppins of Mars?

    It seems Disney are going to make a Mary Poppins sequel - I’m a little concerned as you can imagine...

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  4. Revisiting Shyamalan

    Revisiting Shyamalan

    I really don’t like M. Night Shyamalan’s new film The Visit - but am I wrong?

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  5. Mark Gatiss

    Mark Gatiss

    I met up recently with Sherlock Holmes’ smarter older brother to talk horror movies, film festivals and curated cinema...

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  6. Meeting Morley

    Meeting Morley

    One of my favourite films of this year is The Falling - I sat down and talked to director Carol Morley recently at the Shetland Film Festival.

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  7. My Film Education

    Outspoken, opinionated and never lost for words, Mark is the UK's leading film critic.

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  8. Books v Films

    Books v Films

    People often talk about films being somehow inferior to books but for me the relationship between the two is so much richer than that…

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  9. Wes Craven: Pioneer of Horror

    Wes Craven: Pioneer of Horror

    Wes Craven - one of the most gifted horror directors of our time has just passed away. Here I pay tribute to this outstanding and generous filmmaker.

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