Film reviews, TV reviews and tales of film making and festivals
Here’s how my friend Gav sums up my artistic output: Tom Betts makes film. I.e. one film. Singular. I have been working on Secrecy, my debut feature, for more than half a decade and this […]
Well aware of all the hype whirling around the impending arrival of Melancholia, I went in expecting to be disappointed. Would it live up to everything I hoped it would be? It wasn’t what I […]
Last year I had the honour and privilege of viewing Herbert Ponting’s infamous adventure documentary, The Great White Silence. Held in a gala at the West End Odeon in Leicester Square, the British Film Institute […]
We stepped into the cinema and already the atmosphere was heavy. There was no chew of popcorn or crackle of sweet wrappers, just the steadily increasing noise of expectation. I could almost feel the unanimous […]