SIMON MATTHEWS on the film the Daily Record called ‘the most powerful piece of TV ever to come out of Scotland’. Continue reading
Category Archives: Film
Final cut: Night of the Eagle (1962)
IVAN KIRBY thrills to Peter Wyngarde’s most masculine turn. Continue reading
Final cut: Sebastian (1968)
SIMON MATTHEWS on Michael Powell’s Swinging London movie. Continue reading
Final cut: Rogue Trader (1999)
SIMON MATTHEWS on the story of Nick Leeson and the collapse of Barings Bank. Continue reading
Sherlock on screen
Who was the best Sherlock Holmes? There’s only one way to find out. ALWYN TURNER watches ten versions of The Hound of the Baskervilles. Continue reading
Final cut: The Runaway Bus (1954)
SIMON MATTHEWS watches Frankie Howerd, Margaret Rutherford and Petula Clark. Continue reading
Final cut: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
SIMON MATTHEWS celebrates a big-screen adaptation of Alan Moore’s steam-punk pastiche. Continue reading
Final cut: Odd Man Out (1947)
SIMON MATTHEWS on James Mason as an IRA gunman in Carol’s Reed’s classic movie. Continue reading
Final cut: Mr Jones (2019)
A film about George Orwell, Lloyd George, Maxim Litivinov and the Ukraine famine? SIMON MATTHEWS has a look. Continue reading
Final cut: Tell England (1931)
SIMON MATTHEWS on a movie about the doomed Gallipoli campaign. Continue reading
Final cut: The Body (1970)
SIMON MATTHEWS on the oddity that was The Body. Continue reading
Final cut: Innocent Sinners (1958)
Children and bombsites? It can only mean danger and trouble, finds JONATHAN CALDER. Continue reading
