Essays on this site: individual films (listed in film release order)
- Powell before Pressburger: The Phantom Light (1935)
- “The anguish of humiliation”: The Divorce of Lady X (1938)
- The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
- Capsule: Spellbound (1945)
- Capsule: Notorious (1946)
- Limelight in Vienna: some notes on British cinema’s most charismatic villain [The Third Man (1949)]
- Ace in the Hole (1951): a commentary
- Orphans of war: The Village (1953)
- Grace Kelly in Rear Window (1954)
- Strictly Danziger: Tarnished Heroes (1961)
- Capsule: Vertigo (1958)
- Barry Lyndon (1975)
- “I stood like one thunderstruck”: some reflections on Man Friday (1975)
- A dangerous liaison: Stephen Frears’s Bloody Kids (1980)
- “Shoot straight, you bastards, don’t make a mess of it!”: an appreciation of Bruce Robinson’s Breaker Morant (1980)
Essays on this site: various film topics, authors, multiple films
- Ambler and Greene: Journeys into Fear
- The cinema of Orson Welles: An introduction
- Daphne du Maurier and Alfred Hitchcock
- Hitchcock vs Herrmann: the story behind the break-up of cinema’s finest director/composer partnership
- Forgotten Man: Three films by Frank Nesbitt
- Six British Films in Search of an Auteur
- Tribute to Network
Essays: literature, the arts and literature’s relationship with film
- Human character changed: the Post-Impressionist exhibition of 1910 and the revolution in the arts immediately preceding World War One
- Chaplin and Dickens: some reflections on the influence of Charles Dickens on the cinematic artistry of Charlie Chaplin
- Pasternak and Shostakovich: From Turmoil to Triumph
- Power Without Glory: some reflections on the character of the Lieutenant in Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory, and on his relationship with the whisky priest
- Aspects of Innocence and Experience: some reflections on literature and film analogy, with particular reference to Henry James and Billy Wilder
Book reviews