Just A Little Bit Random
The film related ramblings of Jamie Skinner
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The Weight – Review
Cert- 15, Run-time – 1 hour 53 minutes, Director – Padraic McKinley An imprisoned father (Ethan Hawke) leads a team of prisoners to retrieve a bag of gold in the hope of freedom, however one lost piece means death. Throughout a tense rope bridge sequence, as bars of gold are being thrown one-by-one from person-to-person… Read more
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Shutter Island – Introduction
One of Martin Scorsese’s most popular, successful and strikingly different films, Shutter Island, may well have been saved by long-time collaborator Thelma Schoonmaker. As part of Picturehouse’s year-long Scorsese Season, I took this film introduction, given in October 2026, as an opportunity to talk about Schoonmaker’s work and the jarring effect she brought to Shutter… Read more
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