Disney’s projected ‘woke’ remake of its 1937 animated classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, without the dwarfs, hasn’t gone down overwhelmingly well...
Category: Film
Running on empty: a review of Breathless (1983)
I’d love to know what’s behind that face of yours. I stare at you and I stare at you and I can’t see anything...
Hommage à Hollywood: a review of Halloween (1978)
Halloween is a thoroughly effective and at times exhilaratingly brilliant. But it is also a repellent film that perpetuates obsolete moral values and genre conventions.
Fuckin’ up
The process of writing — at least as I practise it — is one of continual failure, and of the subsequent failure of all attempts to remedy that initial failure.
Gifted
The novel was originally called Spellbinder. Actually, since it was about a teenage forensic sorcerer, my first idea had been Spellbound; but Alfred Hitchcock had kind of got there first…