1964. St. Nicolas School, The Bronx. A suggestion of impropriety with alter boy Donald has inflamed the already tense relationship between Philip Seymour Hoffman’s progressive Father Flynn and his uptight nemesis Sister Aloysius, played by Meryl Streep.
Jonny Trunk interviewed by BBC business bod here - who’d a thought it. Pretty sure I wrote this piece five years ago for Dazed and Confused, read mine here .
Finally seen it, and despite the plentiful horror stories (check Guardian Film Blog and Peter Bradshaw’s One Star Review) I thought it was flawed but enjoyable.
New Clash out today, with a review of American Teen, which I loved - you can take the boy out of The Breakfast Club, but you can’t take the breakfast out of the boy, or something. The film section of the magazine is getting a redux this month, and I’m back on album reviews for the [...]
Just writing up some DVD reviews, including Notorious, Slacker Uprising, Doubt and In The Loop, all for LWL. Also found and uploaded a few older bits which I’d lost and found, and stuck them in the reviews archive. Waltz with Bashir and The Day The Earth Stood Still.
It’s taken a few weeks to set up but finally sorted, after a couple of email exchanges for features in the past, I’ll be exclusively interviewing the Academy Award winning David Shire on Friday. The composer of scores for The Conversation and All The President’s Men, two of my favourite films and scores, as well [...]
Picked up Outliers on a whim, and read it in a day. Brilliant writing, and lots to think about. Gladwell’s one of those writers that makes the craft look enviably easy, brilliant and inspiring - I have already recommended the book to half a dozen people. I enjoyed Blink earlier in the year and will [...]
40th anniversary of moon landings has brought an abundance of new and reissued books, TV and DVD documentaries for those fascinated with the period. Though its unlikely (rock magazine buyers aren’t that fascinated by the space race), I’m still hoping to place an interview with Patrick Moore somewhere, and picked up a handful of new [...]
Adaptation is a tricky business, though there’s no dissuading Sam Mendes, who follows Road to Perdition and Jarhead with this attempt to bring Richard Yates’ novel of the same name to the cinema.
New Big Screen out today, with reviews of Valkyrie, Milk, The Reader and The Class.
