SIMON MATTHEWS watches the screen adaptation of PD James’s dystopian novel. Continue reading
Category Archives: Film
Final Cut: The Tunnel (1935)
The special relationship between the UK and USA – on rails? SIMON MATTHEWS investigates. Continue reading
Final Cut: Hampstead (2017)
SIMON MATTHEWS on a rom-com that could have been so much more. Continue reading
Final Cut: Ships with Wings (1941)
‘Get up, you filthy Hun!’ SIMON MATTHEWS watches a 1941 classic war movie. Continue reading
Final Cut: Murder, She Said (1961)
SIMON MATTHEWS on Miss Marple, The Mousetrap and Margaret Rutherford. Continue reading
Final Cut: Beau Brummell (1954)
SIMON MATTHEWS revisits a fictional account of the greatest dandy of them all. Continue reading
Final Cut: The Blockhouse (1973)
SIMON MATTHEWS on Peter Sellers’s 1973 excursion into art-house movies. Continue reading
Final cut: Juggernaut (1974)
SIMON MATTHEWS on a state-of-the-nation movie for a nation that wasn’t watching. Continue reading
Looking for a New England
From The Stud to Absolute Beginners, Simon Matthews’s new book rounds up music movies of the 1970s and ’80s. ALWYN TURNER has a read. Continue reading
The Sca-la days are over
SIMON MATTHEWS remembers the Scala, London’s coolest cinema. Continue reading
Final cut: Red Joan (2018)
SIMON MATTHEWS on Judi Dench as Red Joan – and other suburban spies. Continue reading
Darkest Hour: The kindness of history
After watching Darkest Hour, ROGER HERMISTON reflects that one man’s dramatic licence may be another’s historical distortion. Continue reading
