The Deep Focus

Great that Parasite won the best film Oscar. Great for Korean films, great for foreign language films, great for the art of cinema, great for anyone who loves films. To…

Saw one of my favourite films, Lawrence of Arabia, again on Saturday. I love the cut from Lawrence blowing out the match to the sun just appearing over the horizon.…

…at the Golden Globes. It was beautiful the way he scored hit after hit in skewering the hypocrisy, self-righteousness, fake posturing, virtue signalling and sanctimony of Hollywood. What a legend.…

2019 was the 20th anniversary of the release of Stanley Kubrick’s last film, Eyes Wide Shut. In recognition of this fact, it was given a re-release in cinemas. This gave…

On Sunday 13 October I saw a preview of Scorsese’s new film, The Irishman, at HOME cinema in Manchester. A new Scorsese film is always one of the cinematic events…

I always get excited when I know there’s a new Tarantino film coming up. You just know it’s going to be one of the highlights of the cinematic year. And…

Yes I know it’s not a film, it’s a musical, but on this rare occasion I want to talk about something other than a film because I saw it recently.…

It’s been a while, I have been busy compiling a list of my all time best films. I define “best” as being films to which I would give a rating…

Top ten favourite new films are listed in a purple font. Films I consider to be masterpieces have the letter M written after the title in red. Regeneration The Wings…

“I am not interested in anything but the possibility of building a world, an entire civilization from scratch.” A. German I have been wanting to write a post on Aleksei…