Christopher Nolan

The Lists: Movies of 2014

I’ve loved movies for as long as I’ve been conscious of having a brain. The first film I remember seeing was a taped-from-TV Betamax copy of Star Wars one of my mum’s patients had. I almost wore it out I watched it so many times. The cinema was, for the first chunk of my life, …

The Lists: Movies of 2014

Five Conversations with John Blake: The Dark Knight Rises

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8evyE9TuYk] Before the Fall of Gotham, Bruce Wayne Blake stopped being scared a long time ago, the anger never faded. Sitting across from Bruce Wayne, a man wearing a suit that cost more than Blake’s salary, he saw it in the older man’s eyes; the blank, cold rage of being wounded by the world …

Five Conversations with John Blake: The Dark Knight Rises

Where I Was This Week-July 7th 2012

Bleeding Cool A quieter week for me this week, but I got a couple of meaty stories to play with. The first movie adaptation of Lee Child‘s Jack Reacher series of novels has been completed, directed by Christopher McQuarrie and starring Tom Cruise. Given that Reacher is continually described in the stories as being a …

Where I Was This Week-July 7th 2012

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