SIX RETURNS FROM THE DEAD / OH COMELY

08/12/201625/09/2017Jason Ward

The end of the line. The final stop. This bus terminates here. There is a place where each of us is heading, a biological inevitability built into our cells. Just READ MORE

A PHONE RINGS IN THE UNIVERSE / OH COMELY

13/10/201625/09/2017Jason Ward

I was sitting in a Pizza Hut in the past, waiting to be disappointed. The conversation turned – as conversation inevitably does when I’m around Ben – to Doctor Who. READ MORE

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 love it. We had some old ladies READ MORE

INTRIGUING FILM CREDITS THAT YOU PROBABLY MISSED / DAZED

20/02/201520/02/2016Jason 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 any other element. You can roughly date

MIKE LEIGH (MR. TURNER) / THE QUIETUS

03/11/201405/07/2018Jason 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 greatest and most prolific dramatists. In Mike

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 to rest on a nearby bench for READ MORE