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Neil Rosen’s film list: court room dramas

The courtroom drama makes for great cinema. Here is list of my favourites. I know I have left a few out like A Few Good Men and a Dock Brief but I can’t advocate what I have not seen, your honour. Twelve Angry Men 1957 Sidney Lumet Sidney Lumet’s first and best film with a [...]

November 6, 2013 // 0 Comments

Neil Rosen’s film list/ ships

ships film lists So now to the mysteries of the cinematic deep. I omitted The Poseidon Adventure and Titanic. My neglected classic is The Enemy Below. Like many an Allied war films , its generally respectful of the German war effort.. The Caine Mutiny 1954 Stanley Kramer Humphrey Bogart [...]

November 6, 2013 // 0 Comments

Neil Rosen’s Film Lists

Sunset Boulevard. 1950 Billy Wilder This Billy Wilder classic is as perceptive look at films as it gets. That old fraud Eric von Stroheim ( there was nothing aristocratic about him) was superb as the white gloved chauffeur of Norma Desmond but William Holden , and Gloria Swanson deliver fine [...]

November 6, 2013 // 0 Comments

Captain Phillips/ Neil Rosen

There are 2 ways to look at Captain Phillips. The first is its a slick film with a well known capable lead in Tom Hanks and a fast moving representation of a true story. This is the one that most critics and certainly the audience adopt. I prefer the second and less fashionable one,namely that it [...]

November 5, 2013 // 0 Comments

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England v Sri Lanka : bad light , bad decision

September 7, 2024 // 0 Comments

Fact: 44 overs were lost at the Oval yesterday because of bad light. Fact: ticket price for the Oval= £ 80. You might have thought with floodlights , a pink ball and a [...]
Classic Movies/Sky Arts

September 6, 2024 // 0 Comments

This series, presented by Ian Nathan, has returned. No Dr Bonnie Greer, but instead a young American critic and film historian Christina Newland. Neil Norman is also a [...]
Sharks reach finals day

September 5, 2024 // 0 Comments

Sussex Sharks made easy work of beating Lancashire Lightning to reach the final. Lancashire Lightning could not call upon Jos Buttler but still fielded T20 regulars Phil Salt [...]
The Third Man

September 4, 2024 // 0 Comments

The 75th anniversary of the launch of the classic movie The Third Man is being celebrated this month with a re-showing. What made this Alexander Korda/David Selznick [...]
Fulham programmes over the years

September 3, 2024 // 0 Comments

Over the past few weeks I have been clearing out my garage. In one corner is my collection of Fulham programmes over my years of support, nearly 55 now. These were exactly [...]