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Screenwriting & book adaptations

• August 9, 2016 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Cinema, Film, Writing
Tags: Blade Runner, Book adaptation, film structure, Philip K. Dick, The Prime Writers

“Contact” at the bfi

• November 15, 2014 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Aliens, Cinema, Film, Science, space
Tags: Adam Rutherford, bfi, Brian Cox, Carl Sagan

Killing your Babies

• May 7, 2013 • 2 Comments

Posted in Cinema, eBooks, Film, Johnny Mackintosh, Writing
Tags: adapted screenplay, bfi, Nirvana, Oblivion, screenplay, screenwriting, show not tell, Syd Field

Where is Everybody?

• May 5, 2013 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Aliens, Cinema, Film, Science, space, Thinking aloud
Tags: alien life, aliens, astrobiology, copernican principle, Drake equation, Fermi Paradox, Jodrell Bank, Kepler, Milan Cirkovic, Royal Society, von neumann probes

Ides of March Premier

• October 23, 2011 • Leave a Comment

Posted in America, Cinema, Film, Previews
Tags: Alistair Campbell, Beau Willimon, bfi, British Film Institute, Evan Rachel Wood, George Clooney, Julius Caesar, London Film Festival, Malcolm Tucker, Movie Premiers, Odeon Leicester Square, Paul Giamatti, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Sandra Hebron, The Thick of It, The West Wing

It’s Only a Movie – Book Review

• January 13, 2011 • Leave a Comment

Posted in America, book reviews, Cinema, New Orleans
Tags: Angelina Jolie, autobiography, Ben Dupre, Brain in a vat, cinema, critics, film, gallerist, Jonathan Ross, Mark Kermode, movies, New Orleans, Nick Bostrom, philosophy, Radio, Simon Mayo, Treme, Ultimate Film, Werner Herzog

Inception and Lucid Dreaming

• September 19, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Cinema, Film, Thinking aloud
Tags: Breton, Christopher Nolan, dreams, Ellen Page, Leonardo DiCaprio, Marion Cotillard, Memento, Roger Penrose, surrealism, Tom Hardy, Total Recall

Young Adult Books on the Big Screen

• August 30, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Authors, Cinema, Film, Harry Potter, Johnny Mackintosh, Other people's books
Tags: Anthony Horowitz, Blade Runner, Christopher Columbus, David Yates, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Golden Compass, Half-Blood Prince, Harry Potter, JK Rowling, Jo Rowling, Lightning Thief, Minas Tirith, Northern Lights, Percy Jackson, Peter Jackson, Philip K. Dick, Philip Pullman, Steve Kloves, Stormbreaker, young adult literature

Puffball

• July 12, 2008 • 2 Comments

Posted in Cinema, Previews
Tags: Dan Weldon, Fay Weldon, Insignificance, Nicolas Roeg, Puffball, Rich Mix, Rita Tushingham, screenplay

Mama Mia! the Movie

• July 7, 2008 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Cinema, Previews
Tags: Abba, Benny Andersson, Bjorn Ulvaeus, Compton organ, Mama Mia, Meryl Streep, Odeon Leicester Square, Pierce Brosnan, Winner takes it all