Alex J. Reviews
 

A few weeks ago I sat down with East Anglian and Royal Television Society (East) nominated filmmaker Matthew Harris to talk about his 25-year career, his early inspirations as filmmakers, his penchant for the experimental style and advice he’d give to budding filmmakers. Having recently written and delivered an introductory course on Video Art through the Sir John Hurt Film Trust in Norwich, I was interested in finding out what Matthew had to say about these topics.  I began

A shot of the first journey in Tube Film. On 25 th August 2025, Orla Smith took the tube on the London Underground for the first time in almost two years. Back in 2023, Orla had a horrible panic attack on the Central Line that prevented her from being able to use the underground again.  After wanting to confront this fear for a while but struggling to set out the time to do so, Orla decided that the best motivation for her was to make a mid-length documentary film about it w

This past weekend I went to see the original play Unicorn , written by Mike Bartlett and directed by James Macdonald, at the Garrick Theatre. Nicola Walker and Stephen Mangan play long-time married couple Polly and Nick who decide that their sex life has long been void of any excitement or passion. In a rather unexpected turn for Nick, Polly suggests they invite a third person into their relationship and that she already has a willing participant lined up: 28 year old Kate (E

Last night (February 23rd) was the airing of the final episode of the miniseries Miss Austen , which has been shown on BBC1 over the last three Sundays. It is an adaptation of the book of the same name by Gill Hornby and focuses on Cassandra, the only sister of literary icon Jane Austen. You may have heard about the infamous story of Miss Cassandra Austen burning her sister’s letters after her death, leaving very little personal and private information about Jane behind, with