The Fall Guy

Stunt performer Colt Seavers (Ryan Gosling) arrives on the Sydney set of a big sci-fi movie only to learn that the woman (Emily Blunt) he loves won’t forgive him and…

Who Framed Roger Rabbit: Toon Troubles

Bob Hoskins. Photo: Buena Vista This is one of my earliest memories of going to the movies. My dad took me to see it and I had recently started wearing…

The Offer

In the late 1960s, Albert Ruddy (Miles Teller) manages to talk the head of production (Matthew Goode) at Paramount into letting him produce a film adaptation of a novel that’s…

Mank: Writing Kane

Gary Oldman. Photo: Netflix David Fincher’s father Jack used to be a journalist. And then he became a screenwriter. His first stab at a story about the legendary Hollywood screenwriter…

Highlights from 94 Years of Oscars

The first Academy Awards were handed out back in 1929. The “show” looked decidedly different then – it was in fact a dinner, the ceremony itself took 15 minutes and…

Notting Hill

The most popular movie star in Hollywood (Julia Roberts) meets a London book-store owner (Hugh Grant) and they fall in love… but can a romance like that work out? Writer…

Adaptation: The Truth About Charlie

Nicolas Cage and Meryl Streep. Photo: Sony Pictures Releasing In 1994, Jonathan Demme bought the rights to journalist Susan Orlean’s book ”The Orchid Thief”, where she investigated the arrest of…

La La Land: An Enchanting Year in the Sun

Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling. Photo: Lionsgate Remember that opening scene from Manhattan (1979)? It’s a montage of different New York City images beautifully captured in black and white by…

Entourage 

Ari Gold (Jeremy Piven), now a studio boss, agrees to let Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier) direct his first movie, but when the project needs more money, the Texas financiers start…