Happy New Year! As we settle into 2024, here are my favourite film discoveries of the previous year. Sneakers (1992) Martin Bishop (Robert Redford) is a criminal for hire with a twist: law-abiding companies hire him to expose the chinks in their armour. When he and his crew grow suspicious about their latest assignment, they […]
The Walk to the Paradise Garden: ‘A Month in the Country’ (1987)
As the hundredth anniversary of the Armistice approaches the First World War slips further away. The last veterans are gone. A collective memory of trenches, poppies, lions led by donkeys, and Rupert Brooke giving way to Wilfred Owen remains. Yet the Great War, fought by those who never imagined there would be a greater one, […]