
Darkest Hour - in conversation with Gary Oldman
On the face of it, a film about three weeks in the life of political icon Winston Churchill, at the most critical time in the Second...

Far From the Madding Crowd - film review
'Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife,
Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray;
Along the cool sequester'd vale of life
...

Bridge of Spies - In conversation with writer Matt Charman
Brooklyn, 1957, and fifty-four year-old Rudolf Abel lives in a boarding house on Hick Street and rents a studio on Fulton. He likes to...

Time Out of Mind - In Conversation with Richard Gere
George’s life sucks pretty bad – he’s drunk and sleeping in the bath for God’s sake, and there’s this guy Art, who looks a lot like Steve...

Collaborate or die - plugging the publishing skills gap.
In my day job, the one that pays the bills and keeps a roof over my head, I work for a company that builds hospitals. Would that it were...

Making Changes vs Belief in Yourself
I’ve been writing professionally for 29 years. First on TV and film and more recently as a novelist. The thing I’ve noticed lately is the...

Trump - thoughts on a personality
By mistake I watched some really early footage of Donald Trump the other day and I was struck by how humble and down to earth he seemed....
The story in us all
I recently wrote a post on a facebook site called Writers Unite! - yes there's an exclamation at the end and no apostrophe - that got a...

Departure, in conversation with actor Juliet Stevenson and director Andrew Steggall
Departure -in conversation with Andrew Steggall and Juliet Stevenson By Angela Elliott Not so much a ‘coming out’ as a ‘coming of age’...

Brooklyn, in conversation with writers Colm Toibin and Nick Hornby, and producer, Finola Dwyer
From the opening scenes in Miss Kelly’s shop all the way through the sign-off, the film Brooklyn is a masterpiece of characterisation,...