27th December 2014 Right, Christmas is over, you’re fed up with your family, your friends and possibly you are too hungover to do anything and you’re so full of Turkey and chocolate that you just want to lie around in… Continue Reading
Movies of adventure in more than two parts are often referred to as sagas, but no series fits that description better than Peter Jackson’s Middle Earth films. A saga by definition is a long, heroic and detailed narrative. His groundbreaking… Continue Reading
Christopher Nolan releases are now bona fide ‘events’ in a landscape of endless superhero reboots and stretched franchises, the unfortunate legacy of his own ‘Dark Knight’ trilogy. He’s an ambitious commercial movie maker who flirts with art, never underestimating the… Continue Reading
Introduction and Interview by Arran Dutton – He may be best known for his roles as Gareth Keenan in The Office and later Ragetti in Pirates of the Caribbean, but actor Mackenzie Crook will surely put the fantastic Detectorists up there… Continue Reading
Although a graduate of art school, I have very little knowledge or even interest in the work of romantic landscape painter JMW Turner, let alone his life. I also usually baulk at the sight of a top hat on TV.… Continue Reading
The American Dream is an elusive beast; as elusive as a panther in the Smokey Mountains of North Carolina if Serena is anything to go by. After 2 years sitting on a movie studio shelf, Oscar winning director Susanne Bier… Continue Reading
Have you ever said something you instantly wanted to take back? You do wonder if political scientist, Francis Fukuyama, ever wonders just that, when he thinks back to his generation defining postulation that the fall of Communism in 1989 marked… Continue Reading
With it being the centenary of the outbreak of World War 1, 2014 has seen the release of an overwhelming multitude of books about the Great War; in fact director of Bristol Festival Ideas Andrew Kelly, as he sits down… Continue Reading