Commenting on the Critics with Simon Columb…This week had a free-for-all on Pierce Brosnan’s tenure as James Bond after he, himself, revealed it wasn’t “good enough”. Horatio Harrod conducted the interview for The Telegraph…“His feelings towards the role are equivocal. “I felt I was caught in a time warp between Roger and Sean,” he says […]

As part of the BFI’s Studio Ghibli Season, Simon Columb reviews My Neighbor Totoro…Totoro is the symbol of Studio Ghibli. The smiley, grey beast began life as part of a double-bill with Grave of the Fireflies because financiers didn’t believe My Neighbor Totoro alone would make money. By screening the cute and cuddly My Neighbor […]

Commenting on the Critics with Simon Columb…Already a comment on critics, author Tom Shone (writer of the brilliant book Blockbuster: How the Jaws and Jedi Generation Turned Hollywood into a Boom-town) writes for The Guardian about the different approaches to film criticism highlighted in the past week:“Hollywood needs policing on its weaknesses, not its strengths. […]