My #Cannes prize predictions are up here, so bet your children’s college fund on them for an easy payday www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

My review of Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition (dir. Malcolm Venville) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

My review of Self Driver (dir. Michael Pierro) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

My review of Kokuho (dir. Lee Sang-il) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

My review of Tomorrow Our Land (dir. Orban Wallace) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

My review of Jimpa (dir. Sophie Hyde) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

My review of Romería (dir. Carla Simón) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma... (it premiered at Cannes last year and gets its UK release today)

To all my BlueSky friends in Tunbridge Wells and Kent and the South-East generally! My event at the Tunbridge Wells Literary Festival is TONIGHT at 7:30pm so please come along why don’t you for heaven’s sake! Click here: twlf.ssboxoffice.com/events/the-b...

My review of The Sheep Detectives (dir. Kyle Balda) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ap...

My review of Wild Foxes (dir. Valéry Carnoy) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ap...

My review of Ada: My Mother The Architect (dir. Yael Melamede) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ap...

My review of Power To The People: John & Yoko Live In NYC (dir. Simon Hilton) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ap...

My review of The Devil Wears Prada 2 (dir. David Frankel) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ap...

My review of Hokum (dir. Damian McCarthy) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ap...

My review of the re-release of Highlander (1986) (dir. Russell Mulcahy) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ap...

A special message to all my BlueSky friends who live in or near Kent. Watch this, absorb its message and then click here: twlf.ssboxoffice.com/events/the-b...

My vlog on David Frankel’s The Devil Wears Prada 2 is up here, please click, watch, share and subscribe youtu.be/IgB5Xvuo50E?...

I’m reading from my book The Body In The Mobile Library at the Tunbridge Wells Library Festival on Tuesday 5th May. Attending this event would silence the nay-sayers who claim you don’t have what it takes to attend the Tunbridge Wells Literary Festival. Click: twlf.ssboxoffice.com/events/the-b...

Superb Catherine Shoard piece on the new fan-friendly biopic-lite experience www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

My review of Rose Of Nevada (dir. Mark Jenkin) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au... (it premiered at Venice last August and gets its UK release today)

My review of Olivia (dir. Sofia Petersen) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ap...

My review of Primavera (dir. Damiano Michieletto) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ap...

My review of Michael (dir. Antoine Fuqua) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ap...

My review of Exit 8 (dir. Genki Kawamura) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ap...

My review of Agon (dir. Giulio Bertelli) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ap...

My vlog on Antoine Fuqua’s Michael is up here, please click, watch, share and subscribe: youtu.be/LY2ibAW8xoo?...

My vlog on David Lowery’s Mother Mary is up here, please click, watch, share and subscribe: youtu.be/uXgcBcxZQWs?...

My review of The Wizard Of The Kremlin (dir. Olivier Assayas) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au... (it premiered at Venice last August and gets its UK release today)

My review of The Blue Trail (dir. Gabriel Mascaro) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ap...

My review of Glenrothan (dir. Brian Cox) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ap...

My review of Miroirs No3 (dir. Christian Petzold) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ap...

My review of Rebuilding (dir. Max Walker-Silverman) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ap...

My vlog on Christian Petzold’s Mirrors No3 is up here, please click, watch, share and subscribe: youtu.be/Bd1jnelAsNc?...

Tune in to Fi Glover and Jane Garvey on Times Radio this afternoon at 3:30pm to hear Joanna Scanlan talking about her performance in my Audible Original drama Mercy: www.thetimes.com/radio/show/2...

My vlog on François Ozon’s The Stranger is up here, please click, watch, share and subscribe: youtu.be/VS8dVXaXI4o?...

My review of Dracula (dir. Radu Jude) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ap...

My review of The Stranger (dir. François Ozon) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ap...

Some thoughts on the #Cannes selection: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ap...

My vlog on François Ozon’s The Stranger is up here, please click, watch, share and subscribe: youtu.be/VS8dVXaXI4o?...

My vlog on Kristoffer Borgli’s The Drama is up here, please click, watch, share and subscribe youtu.be/Am99D-UhEQ8?...

Book now for my appearance at the Tunbridge Wells Literary Festival on Tuesday May 5th at 7:30pm - reading from my short fiction collection The Body In The Mobile Library @twlitfest twlf.ssboxoffice.com/events/the-b...

My review of Fuze (dir. David Mackenzie) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ap...

My review of The Drama (dir. Kristoffer Borgli) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

Here’s the fab Joanna Scanlan on BBC Radio 4 Loose Ends talking to Stuart Maconie about my Audible drama Mercy www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0GGTQ9ZB...

My review of Redoubt (dir. John Skoog) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

My review of Billy Idol Should Be Dead (dir. Jonas Åkerlund) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

My review of Orwell 2+2=5 (dir. Raoul Peck) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

My review of the re-release of William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet (1996) (dir. Baz Luhrmann) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

My review of Pompei: Below The Clouds (dir. Gianfranco Rosi) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au... (it premiered at Venice last year and gets its UK release today)

My review of Two Prosecutors (dir. Sergei Loznitsa) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...