Tom Jolliffe ventures back 30 years to 1992, a year full of breakouts, action spectacle, iconic soundtracks and more… In my retrospective delve into the year of 1982, I boldly claimed that it might have been the greatest year of film ever. As I thrust my time machine forward a decade, I wandered the cinematic […]
Films about Film
Tom Jolliffe takes a look at films about film… The magic of cinema. A wonderful escape from the rigours of modern life, or a microscope onto the worst issues we might face. Escapism, realism, thrills or dramatic truth, whatever your desire, is covered. The very process in making film is also in equal measures magical, […]
4 Great Films About Hollywood (That Aren’t Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood)
Graeme Robertson with four great films about Hollywood (that aren’t Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood)… Quentin Tarantino is back in our cinemas with his latest cinematic opus Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, his love letter to the Hollywood of the 1960s in all its glitzy, reference heavy and presumably (this is Tarantino after […]
BFI Review – The Player (1992)
The Player, 1992. Directed by Robert Altman. Starring Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Whoopi Goldberg, Peter Gallagher, Brion James, Vincent D’Onofrio and Richard E. Grant. SYNOPSIS: A Hollywood executive is delivered a death threat and seeks to track down the screenwriter who sent it… Hail Caesar! received a considerable amount of praise in the […]
