Who is Jonathan Meades exactly? It’s hard to say. Describing him as merely a writer, novelist, documentary maker and cultural critic somehow isn’t enough. It wo... Read More...
Fifty Shades of Grey - Sam Taylor-Johnson - 2015
Out of politeness I once allowed a man I didn’t really like to jizz on the crook of my arm. We sat... Read More...
If you've ever been curious why poet Declan Ryan thinks Patrick Hamilton is a 'bell end', or why screen writer and journalist Michael Holden thinks daytime sex ... Read More...
On Thursday 6th October we'll once again be getting our kicks in Stepney. The Luxury Book Club literati will be congregating in Genesis Cinema for our next knee... Read More...
I was in Barbados when the dog bit, when the bee stung. I was in paradise when the world turned to shit. But I couldn’t feel its glow, nor see its beauty. All I... Read More...
The year was 1984. I was fourteen years old and living in a sleepy white-picket-fenced town called Niagara-on-the-Lake, ‘NOTL’ for short.
NOTL was a twenty... Read More...
Room 237 – Rodney Ascher – 2012
This is a fascinating documentary on conspiracies surrounding The Shining. Did Stanley Kubrick fake the moon landings and apo... Read More...
Where do you live? At the moment I don’t entirely know! I divide my time between London and Dublin. London feels like home to me but I grew up in Dublin, so the... Read More...
When it’s raining inside and out; when your heart’s been left smeared on the bathroom wall into a smiley face with a bloody kiss, slip on The Odd Couple and eve... Read More...
The King of Marvin Gardens – Bob Rafelson – 1972
When Bruce Dern and Jack Nicholson appear in this slow and gently surreal story of estranged brothers it’s u... Read More...
The Magic Christian – Joe McGrath – 1969
A comedy that hates you, The Magic Christian is an example of what happens when you indulge a genius. Peter Sellers ... Read More...
Elvis Presley may be as famous as Jesus Christ or Coca-Cola, but to me he’s just the boy who broke my heart.
It was his beauty that first struck me, but it’s... Read More...
Kes – Ken Loach – 1969
A working class boy finds meaning through training a kestrel. He is expected to be a nothing, but dangerously discovers books and a he... Read More...
Our early twenties is such a defining period for our cultural tastes. Books, films, music... The art I discovered and fell in love with during those years has g... Read More...
An American Werewolf in London – John Landis – 1981
Werewolves were always the poor man’s vampires. Then this film was made. Never again would they merely be... Read More...
The Hateful Eight – Quentin Tarantino – 2015
From Reservoir Dogs to now it’s easy to suspect Quentin Tarantino of being a secret lover of playwriting rather ... Read More...
Frontlist/Backlist 3D and Genesis Cinema presents AND THE STARS LOOK VERY DIFFERENT TODAY…
On Saturday 23rd January we'll be putting on our red shoes and danci... Read More...
Hooray for awards season, which properly kicked off this weekend with the Golden Globes. It’s the perfect antidote to January gloom: never mind the fact that I ... Read More...
They had me at ‘car crash of cinema and geography’…
But if you do need to know anything more about Passengerfilms, they’re an award winning film society who se... Read More...
We always knew this day would come...
Or did we?
Many times I've said the words, 'I'll be so upset when David Bowie dies.' But a reassuring voic... Read More...
Is there a place for nostalgia in art? Hell no, said I, a couple of days ago, before I went to see Star Wars: The Force Awakens in my home town. I mean, it’s ju... Read More...
Ballard is undoubtedly one of the most significant and influential writers of post-war Britain. His work foreshadows our contemporary 'nightmare of sex, death a... Read More...
Dirk Bogarde was a good-looking man. Some would say beautiful. Damn his perfect face. In his early roles of the 1950s he would play pretty villains, as in the T... Read More...
We've gone 3D!
Frontlist/Backlist are finally hitting the road (the Mile End Road) with our Luxury Book Club...
Our first novel is Patrick Hamilton's Hang... Read More...
Name: Tree Carr
Where do you live: Shoreditch, London
Occupation(s): Filmmaker - Musician - DJ
(above) Pam Hogg sci-fi cape; film studio
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Apart from musicals, no film genre is as simple to define. Are the films trying to scare us? Then it’s horror. With obvious exceptions many of the best horror f... Read More...
'I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool.'
REBECCA - Hitchcock - 1940
After a comically brusque courtship, doe-eyed ingenue (Joan Fontaine) marries suav... Read More...
Crimson Peak – Guillermo del Toro – 2015
Never give Guillermo del Toro any money. Here he sweats funding and the puddle it makes is shallow. A wonderfully co... Read More...
There are two things you need to remember in the coming days. Number one: the clocks go back on Sunday morning, so don’t be a shit and stand your friend up when... Read More...
This November sees the re-release of Dr Zhivago as part of The BFI’s current LOVE season, and fittingly, the news has rekindled an early girl crush of mine. Per... Read More...
