SIX RETURNS FROM THE DEAD / OH COMELY 08/12/201619/09/2019Jason Ward The end of the line. The final stop. This bus terminates here. There is a place where each of us is heading, a
A PHONE RINGS IN THE UNIVERSE / OH COMELY 13/10/201619/09/2019Jason Ward I was sitting in a Pizza Hut in the past, waiting to be disappointed. The conversation turned – as conversation inevitably does when
ALCOHOL INHALATION / HOT RUM COW 19/12/201525/09/2017Jason Ward “Half of the people who come here hate it,” says a barmaid that I can’t see. I think she’s shrugging. “The other half
INTRIGUING FILM CREDITS THAT YOU PROBABLY MISSED / DAZED 20/02/201516/09/2019Jason Ward Fascinating for being both a contractual battlefield and an underutilised tool for conveying meaning, credits have evolved over cinema’s history as much as
MIKE LEIGH (MR. TURNER) / THE QUIETUS 03/11/201423/06/2020Jason Ward It seems fitting that the biopic of one of Britain’s greatest and most prolific artists should be conceived by one of the country’s
THE LAST FLIGHT OF HAYAO MIYAZAKI / OH COMELY 30/04/201420/02/2016Jason Ward A pig is strolling along a beach in Tynemouth, thinking about the dead. Still weary after his lengthy flight from Japan, he decides
