Most Anticipated Movies of 2015

Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens — dir. J J Abrams    Hail Caesar   (Universal) — dir.  Joel and Ethan Coen w/   Josh Brolin, George Cloone...

'Whether as a gift to yourself or an extremely covetable stocking filler, Tom Shone's monograph Martin Scorsese - A Retrospective (T...

BEST FILMS OF 2014

1. Selma 2. Interstellar 3. Under The Skin 4. Birdman 5. Leviathan 6. Boyhood 7. Grand Budapest Hotel 8. Foxcatcher 9. A Most Wanted  Man 10...

BEST TV SHOWS of 2014

1. True Detective 2. Silicon Valley 3. Last Week Tonight With John Oliver 4. The Americans 5. Veep

And.... one more

"This is the best kind of coffee table book. It fulfills the brief of being picture-led with rare and telling images, but it's Shon...

BEST FILM PERFORMANCES OF 2014

1. Steve Carell — Foxcatcher 2. Phillip Seymour Hoffman – A Most Wanted Man  3. Chadwick Boseman — Get On Up  4.  Angelina Jolie —  Mailifi...

Mesmerized by this video for Nils Frahm's Says, created by visual artists  Romain Assénat  and Ana Silva:— "We had the visual ide...

BEST SOUNDTRACKS OF 2014

I. Interstellar —Hans Zimmer 2. Birdman — Antonio Sanchez 3. Under the Skin — Mica Levi 4.  The Grand Budapest Hotel — Alexandre Desplat 5...

BEST SONGS OF 2014

1. Morning — Beck 2.  Hero  — Family of the Year 3 .  Do You  — Spoon 4.   Rather Be  — Clean Bandit 5.  Small Window —  Luluc 6.  Head Und...

BEST ALBUMS OF 2014

1. Morning Phase — Beck 2.  Passerby  — Luluc 3 . Stay Gold — First Aid Kit 4.  GIRL  — Pharrell Williams 5. Are We There  — Sharon Van Et...

SCORSESE REVIEWS Contd.

"A tribute volume that is   hefty, handsome, and smart. The graphic design is downright overwhelming — stunning images from  every majo...

On my iPod: Nov 29th 2014

1. Johnny and Mary (feat. Bryan Ferry) — Todd Terje 2. I Can't Live Without My Mother — Sun Kil Moon 3. Repeat Pleasure — How to Dress ...

Thank-you to all who came to my event yesterday at the Tribeca Barnes & Noble, bringing my Scorsese publicity binge to a nice close. Pho...

Calling all Scorsese-loving New Yorkers!

On Saturday Nov 22nd at 6pm I will be presenting a sequence of my Top Ten Shots* from the films of Martin Scorsese and signing copies of my ...

INTERVIEW: HANS ZIMMER

Film composer Hans Zimmer is too sensible to play favorites with his scores, but he hasn’t taken any new work since completing his score for...

My Top Ten Scorsese Shots

On Nov 22nd at 6pm I will be presenting a sequence of my Top Ten Shots* from the films of Martin Scorsese and signing copies of my book Scor...

SCORSESE REVIEWS Contd.

'An admiring but clear-eyed view of the great American filmmaker’s career, acknowledging the early masterpieces such as Taxi Driver  and...

Christopher Nolan: The Director's Cut

From the longer cut of my Christopher Nolan profile:—  MICHAEL MANN : “He works within the system here in a very commanding way. He has larg...

PROFILE: CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

From my Guardian profile of Christopher Nolan :— 'Dressed in his trademark blazer, his shirt collar skewed at the raffish angle of a sc...