Tom Watchorn

Bad City. A place so appropriately named it must only house dealers, prostitutes and those too poor to escape. The law enforcement obviously did a long time ago, ’cause there’s a ruddy huge ditch full of steadily increasing corpses just on your left as you drive in. Nobody’s cleaning that...

With Insidious 3 fast approaching, and its poster being, all superlative aside, possibly the greatest piece of film advertising ever, we take a look at some other iconic and interesting cinematic one-sheets… Insidious 3 (2015) A bold claim, maybe, but Insidious 3’s poster may well be perfect. Everything about the...

With the rerelease of Blade Runner‘s 2007 ‘Final Cut’ this week, our writers slice together some notable nods to films with special editions and alternate cuts in our latest Scrapbook. Blade Runner: The Final Cut Blade Runner is possibly the ultimate ‘alternate cut’ film, with five discrete and distinct edits to...

Mild Spoilers It’s 43 years since Brando and Schneider taught the world a new use for butter and in that time as cinemagoers we haven’t advanced much. Either the audience I just happened to witness Fifty Shades of Grey with is the most repressed in history or that cluster of titterers...

“What’s this for sir… oh right, I went to the University of Nottingham” “I did not.” “I think I once interviewed Puressence for the university magazine. It was a… good interview.” J pulls a face, they both laugh. I’m huddled in a booth with Public Service Broadcasting in the...

When they take to the stage, Public Service Broadcasting – so often described by critics as ‘geeky’ – are simultaneously the most and least likely band to produce the music that they do. Most likely, because attired akin to history teachers (bow ties and all), the interest and preoccupation...

As a documentary filmmaker since 2002, Stephen Kijak has worked with some of the most iconic and artistic music artists of the 20th century, from the Rolling Stones to Scott Walker. On the 26th February his new film Show ‘em What You’re Made of is released, adding to that prestigious...