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Nick Saward
Oct 12, 20211 min read
Project Nolan: Tenet
Better late than never? Or maybe not. Project Nolan finally comes to a close with less than a bang - in fact a rather lukewarm response...
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Nick Saward
Jun 29, 20211 min read
Project Nolan: Dunkirk
SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS - is something that we should have said right at the beginning of this video - but we didn't. Not that there's...
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Nick Saward
Jun 21, 20211 min read
Project Nolan: Inception
We finally reach the No1. spots for our top ten lists. First up is Nick's personal favourite: Inception. High concept, high octane, high...
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Nick Saward
Jun 21, 20211 min read
Project Nolan: Interstellar
Finally free of the cinematic confines of his Dark Knight trilogy, Nolan lets us know what he's been really thinking about - and it's...
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Nick Saward
Jun 21, 20211 min read
Project Nolan: The Prestige
Making its way into both Matt & Nick's top 5 Christopher Nolan films is the confusing, confounding but utterly compelling: The Prestige....
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Nick Saward
Jun 21, 20211 min read
Project Nolan: The Dark Knight Rises
Just to add insult to injury - after placing flawless The Dark Knight in at number four of their list, Matt and Nick decide that it's...
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Nick Saward
Jun 21, 20211 min read
Project Nolan: The Dark Knight (including 5-1 reveal)
Widely considered to be the film that changed superhero movies forever, indeed, considered by some as the greatest comic book adaptation...
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Nick Saward
Sep 2, 20201 min read
Project Nolan: Batman Begins
The first of Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy is also the first first to be reviewed as it appeared in both Matt & Nick's 'bottom' half of...
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Nick Saward
Aug 27, 20201 min read
Project Nolan: Memento
The first Nolan film that we both experienced and one which we have watched and discussed countless times came in at number six on Matt's...
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Nick Saward
Aug 25, 20201 min read
Project Nolan: Insomnia
Insomnia was Nolan's third feature film and second to get a cinema release in 2002. Number nine for both Matt and Nick, and countless...
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Nick Saward
Aug 19, 20201 min read
Project Nolan: Following
Coming in at number ten on both Matt & Nicks' lists is Christopher Nolan's first feature film; Following. A 'no budget' suspense noir...
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Nick Saward
Aug 17, 20201 min read
Project Nolan: 10-6
In the second video of this venture Matt & Nick reveal which of Nolan's films fill positions ten through to six. Revealing just how...
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Nick Saward
Jul 14, 20201 min read
Project Nolan: Introduction
The first of a collection of a dozen (or so) videos exploring and analysing the back catalogue of British filmmaker Christopher Nolan,...
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Nick Saward
Apr 15, 20201 min read
Old from New & New from Old
Still on lockdown and having failed to start any boxsets on *the list*, media consumption has mainly come from noodling around on...
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Nick Saward
Apr 3, 20201 min read
A Tale of Two Ads
As social distancing becomes the 'new norm' it's not just news and current affairs media that is representing the strange new world we...
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Nick Saward
Mar 27, 20201 min read
Mickey Vs Aunty
As we're all stuck inside watching repeats of Friends to escape the news, Disney+ has arrived to save us! But is it as wholesome and...
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Nick Saward
Mar 20, 20201 min read
PSB or not PSB, that is the question.
I'll keep this short - should we still be paying for the BBC, should the BBC even exist. Since the general election back in December...
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Nick Saward
Feb 28, 20201 min read
Gender Trouble
Timing is everything, and in a week where we've been discussing representations of gender, two very different videos pop up to make the...
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Nick Saward
Feb 11, 20201 min read
"I never make predictions... and I never will."
In what was supposed to be my first post of 2020, I have a look at the BBC Media Editor Amol Rajan's predictions for various media...
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Nick Saward
Feb 7, 20201 min read
WARNING: This media may bite!
Happy 2020! It's been a while. We kick off this year with a discussion of whether or not art and culture can ever be risky or even...
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