A film about a font: one to watch
An 80 minute film about a font may not at first sound like everyone’s up of tea, but Gary Hustwit’s documentary Helvetica is a great watch. … Read the full post »
Here are all of my reviews of DVDs featuring television shows, feature films and the like.
An 80 minute film about a font may not at first sound like everyone’s up of tea, but Gary Hustwit’s documentary Helvetica is a great watch. … Read the full post »
In the earliest days of Doctor Who, the historical story lines took great care over their accuracy. Then came The Romans. … Read the full post »
Tense situations at home and at work during post-war Britain’s painful adjustment to a multi-racial society is the 1961 British film Flame in the Streets in a nutshell. … Read the full post »
The 1970s, especially post-Watergate, saw a series of high-quality US thrillers that mixed politics, paranoia and a handful of good people standing up to secret plotters. … Read the full post »
Staring Jean Simmons and Trevor Howard, The Clouded Yellow is an Alfred Hitchcock style thriller from 1950. … Read the full post »
1992 was the year in which the ‘Clean Hands’ corruption scandal upended the Italian political system, ending its existing party system and opening the way for the rise of Silvio Berlusconi. … Read the full post »
TV espionage thriller The Bureau is refreshingly different for it’s not American, British nor even Scandinavian. Instead, it’s a highly praised French drama. … Read the full post »
Series 1 of Bird of Prey is fabulously done, with a high pace, plenty of twists and frequent uncertainty about what direction the story is headed in. … Read the full post »
A 1957 film starring Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton and Tyrone Power, Witness for the Prosecution is a murder mystery based on an Agatha Christie short story. … Read the full post »
Best of Enemies is a fascinating retelling of the TV debates between Gore Vidal and William F Buckley Jr which changed TV coverage of US politics. … Read the full post »