In the romcom everyone loves to hate, Notting Hill, floppy-haired beta-male Hugh Grant bemoans his mid-point split with out-of-his-league movie star Julia Roberts with the words 'It's as if I've taken love heroin, and now I can't ever have it again.' We then see a montage of him depressed and lonely without her, mocked by memories of her.
If they turned that montage into a move all of its own, its name would be (500) Days of Summer... [More]
Anyone who's ploughed through this site will know that I've got a bit of a thing for time travel stories, as well as a penchant for romcoms and tragic love stories like Somewhere in Time. So it's no surprise that I was pretty eager to see the long-delayed movie adaptation of Audrey Niffeneggar's smash hit faux-lit novel The Time Traveler's Wife.
And, despite the sickly trailer, it doesn't disappoint... [More]
It is with great sadness and deep shock that I learned today of the loss of Blake Snyder, who died from cardiac arrest on August 4, 2009.
Blake was a screenwriting teacher and author of the brilliant Save the Cat!, a manual that offered a fresh approach on screenwriting structure and laid out a revolutionary template for genre. [More]
I've always had a thing for vampire films. From the age of 11 I was allowed to stay up late and watch Hammer's brilliant Dracula movies. I was obsessed for years with a comic adaptation of The Legend Of The Seven Golden Vampires
. I even love Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula
, and no one loves that.
There's something about vampire mythology that hits the spot in a way that werewolves, zombies and all those other members of the supernatural bestiary just don't. And let's be honest, it's the sex... [More]
I don't normally write about TV series once I've already taken a look at them.
But with the second season of Mad Men now airing on BBC4, I couldn't resist the opportunity to immerse myself in it again, having only scratched the glossy surface of season one. And besides, this is Mad Men
, quite possibly the greatest TV drama series of all time... [More]
