Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition
This exhibition at the Design Museum in London brings together a huge array of props, scripts, equipment, photos and letters from the career of one of the greatest directors of […]
Author Archives: Alex Chafey
The Passionate Friends
Mary (Ann Todd) is in a loveless marriage to wealthy banker Howard (Claude Rains), but on holiday in Switzerland she finds herself in the next room to her former love, […]
Late Night
Emma Thompson is Katherine Newbury, a prime time talk show host who’s past her prime, and is asked to retire to let a man take her place. When she looks […]
X-Men: Dark Phoenix
The latest and probably final film in the original Marvel cinematic universe takes place some time after they gave up trying to maintain any kind of continuity in the franchise. […]
Blithe Spirit
Author Charles Condomine and his wife Ruth (Rex Harrison and Constance Cummings) invite a spirit medium (Margaret Rutherford) to dinner as research for a new book. But the séance goes […]
Death Becomes Her
Madeleine and Helen (Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn) will stop at nothing to stay looking young, so when they reach the limits of plastic surgery they’re tempted to drink an […]
Moby: Then It Fell Apart
Moby’s well-received first memoir, Porcelain, covered his experiences as a New York DJ in the 80s and 90s, and ended tantalizingly on the eve of his mega-successful breakthrough album Play. […]
The Sound Barrier
David Lean directs this fictionalised tale of the early attempts to break the sound barrier. It follows the head of an aviation company, John Ridgefield (Ralph Richardson) and his daughter […]
Brief Encounter
A bored housewife (Celia Johnson) encounters a handsome doctor (Trevor Howard) at the train station in the appropriately named Milford. But these acquaintances on a train have a profound effect […]
Hobson’s Choice
Shoe shop owner Henry Hobson (Charles Laughton) is intent on marrying off his two younger daughters (Daphne Anderson and Prunella Scales) while keeping his eldest, Maggie (Brenda de Banzie), to […]
Screen Goblin 