It is impossible to think about LA without thinking about roads. A friend we met out there decried the state of them, said that since the local economy began to crumble so did the roads and in some stretches it’s like the third world. This was of course exaggeration but in a city where no building looks older than me the endless snake of tarmac and lamp post does feel oddly ancient. At home it still feels like the roads…

Hi there   so our premier was on friday and we had another screening on Sunday Feeling a bit battered by process definately powerful learning curve. LFF is probably the best festival I can think of for a UK filmmaker to premier first film as Michael Hadyn and Barry Fitzgerald so hugely supportive. The distribuors Soda have been really supportive in supporting the actors particularly Candese. I’m really proud of her. She is nominated for an award tonight and we…

Dear friends forgive me for my recent silence. Chris and I are editing a new TV show called The Bleak Old Shop Of Stuff and though this is a delightful process that fills our every waking moment with delightful faux-Dickensian daftness… well, it’s filling our every waking moment. I’ve been intending to blog about a few of the knottier and more fascinating aspects of this process at the weekends… but I’ve instead I’ve just done sleeping. So in the lack…

When it was announced that David Cronenberg was to direct the screen adaptation of Christopher Hampton’s play The Talking Cure, there was a palpable buzz in the air. Given Cronenberg’s history of producing idiosyncratic and rigorously intellectual films with a taste for the psychoanalytic, the idea that he was to venture forth into the combative relationship between Freud and Jung was a tantalisingly sexy prospect. Set in turn of the century Vienna, A Dangerous Method details the relationship between psychoanalysists…

The Descendants is the latest film from indie kingpin Alexander Payne. Whereas directors such as Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach have snared the market for disenfranchised New York youth, Payne has been slowly chipping away at securing the thirty to forty demographic with his brand of ever so slightly acerbic elegies to Middle America.  However, with his latest film, also his first in seven years, the bile seems to have evaporated and instead been replaced by a mawkish, touchy-feely sensibility…

Carnage might be the most efficient film Roman Polanski has ever made. Sprinting in at a nimble eighty-one minutes, it contains only four main speaking roles (minus a few phone conversations) and apart from the opening and closing shots is contained entirely within the fussy confines of an upper-middle class New York apartment.  Based on Yasmina Reza’s award-winning comedy The God of Carnage , the film concerns itself with two couples who have come together to sort out an altercation…

Hi guys Here’s our poster Like? I can talk about the process of making it if you want went to see dragonslayer yesterday. I found it very poetic and moving.. someone I met found it really annoying. Now we realised after discussion that because I had come in late I missed the beginning bit where the main character talks about not being able to fully parent his child. I came in on images of him being vulnerable at a skate…

Shame the latest film from Turner Prize winner artist turned filmmaker Steve McQueen, has slinked into town on a wave of tremendous hype and prestige.  Having gone down a dirty little treat in Toronto and been awarded the Volpi Cup at Venice for Michael Fassbinder’s all too revealing performance, Shame dares to look at the sheet stained world of sex addiction. Whilst drug dependency has often been a source of dramatic tension in cinema, sex addiction is often presented in comedic fashion.…

Hi there just catching up Went on  the Robert Elms show yesterday with Eddie and Jason Solomons. the photo is Eddie and graham who did the podcast interview. We all look a bit tired. I was advised that pictures are engaging for blogs. Are pictures of me and Eddie looking slightly minging really engaging to you as a blog audience? better with or without? A transmedia social experiment right here right now. Robert Elms and Jason Solomons were very very…