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April 29, 2022
ENNIO
By Andrew Collins The Good, The Bad and the Maestro By Andrew Collins Film music’s most beloved and much-missed Maestro was all too partially, belittlingly and posthumously garlanded when Ennio Morricone died, aged 91, following a fall in Rome, which … Continue reading →
January 4, 2020
TV and Records
Putting together a weekly radio show that’s wall to wall movie soundtracks, old and new, for Classic FM, it’s impossible not to sense the throb of the cultural leylines under the desk, tendrils attracted from the world of film that … Continue reading →
2019: What did it look like?
For all sorts of reasons, I’ve been slow to update what I think of as the “original blog”. It’s partly because of politics, a grey area that was once totally off limits, when I was a broadcaster for the BBC … Continue reading →
December 27, 2018
Film 2018
It’s been quite a year for films. Not least because of Netflix and Amazon, both of which I feel a pressing need to subscribe to. Not every film that lands on either is worth watching to the end (although I … Continue reading →
December 5, 2018
You go, girlfriends
This is not a regular film review, as Women: A Success Story is not a regular film. “A liberating tale for a new generation,” inspired by Joanna Williams’s book Women Vs Feminism, it was made by volunteers and funded by … Continue reading →
July 19, 2018
What We Started (2017)
WHAT WE STARTED (2017) RATING: ★★★ DIRECTORS: Bert Marcus, Cyrus Saidi STARRING: Carl Cox, Martin Garrix, Pete Tong CERTIFICATE: 12A RUNNING TIME: 94 mins COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: US A documentary about dance music feels like a contradiction in terms; to … Continue reading →
March 31, 2018
They shoot, they score
My review for Radio Times of the new, feature-length documentary Score (released on DVD 2 April in the UK) SCORE (2016) RATING: ★★★★ DIRECTOR: Matt Schrader STARRING: Hans Zimmer, John Debney, Tyler Bates et al CERTIFICATE: PG RUNNING TIME: … Continue reading →
January 1, 2018
LPs 2017
Oops. Forgot to arrange my LPs of the Year into a neat shape. So here it is, for what it’s worth. With great inevitability, soundtracks and scores have dominated my listening horizon. Curating a two-hour radio show of film music … Continue reading →
December 31, 2017
Headline goes here
Hold the front page. No, really, hold a newspaper with a front page on it and cherish its existence. For if nothing else, the year from here can once again be read through the front pages of its newspapers. Against … Continue reading →
TV 2017
The kiss on Victoria (ITV) was the image of the TV year. Not the one between Alfred and Drummond, but the more impromptu one between the Queen’s new puppy and Prince Albert’s wolfhound in Episode 4. As an armchair historian, … Continue reading →
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