Fern Britton was our Author of the Month in June 2016. As well as giving discounts on her backlist and promotion of her new book, this involved publishing an exclusive interview. Although I sadly didn’t get to meet the lovely Fern in person, I did get to chat to her for …
Donor Unknown is one of the most fascinating documentaries I’ve seen. It has characters as fascinating as any found by Louis Theroux, a story as unlikely as Searching for Sugar Man, and moral dilemmas as chewy as a Nick Broomfield’s secret toffee stash. The film follows the story of 20-year-old JoEllen Marsh …
Jeremy Scahill is an independent journalist and filmmaker whose work especially concentrates on the fallout from the ‘war on terror’. He has written several books, including Dirty Wars, which was turned into an Oscar-nominated documentary film. The quantity of research required for this interview paid off, Jeremy had some fascinating, if controversial, things to …
When Network Distributing started re-releasing a number of old British sex comedies (as well as horror films and common-or-garden comedies), they contacted David McGillivray to give interviews about the subject. Mr McGillivray is described on his Wikipedia page as “an actor, producer, playwright, screenwriter and film critic”. He wrote a …
Based on a cult novel by American Muslim convert Michael Muhammad Knight, The Taqwacores is an indie film with an independent-mind. Sent to study in America, innocent Pakistani student Yusuf finds that the Muslim shared house he has been placed in by his pious parents is filled with some very unorthodox co-religionists. His housemates are …
Richard Gere’s performance in Arbitrage was heralded as a return to form after many years of playing the romantic hero. As Robert Miller, Gere played a suave, but dodgy billionaire who finds his carefully constructed world is about to come crashing down on his head. I was lucky enough to interview the …
