Did you know that this Ealing Studios film was based on a book? Published in 1907, Israel Rank by Roy…
I love the 1993 film of The Secret Garden, which is based on Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic novel. I used…
Judy Blume herself was one of the producers on this first ever film adaptation of her novel. It’s set in…
David Holmes, the stunt double for Daniel Radcliffe in the Harry Potter films, was paralysed while filming the Deathly Hallows…
I enjoyed Kotaro Isaka’s novel Bullet Train, which was published in English translation in 2021. I was struck by the…
An award-winning, beautifully-animated film from Studio Ghibli, written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, Howl’s Moving Castle is based on Diana…
It’s time for the traditional list of films I watched this year! I’ve linked to those which already have ‘film…
Adapted from the classic H P Lovecraft story, this film is suitably weird and is in some ways similar to…
This movie has a lot of fans. I’m not one of them. I thought it was all right at first,…
Entertaining in a b-movie horror kind of way, although not as lurid as the movie poster suggests, this is a…