Adam Campbell
Born in Canada, Adam was moved as a small child to the world's favourite holiday destination, Northern Ireland. After growing up in rainy Belfast, he relocated himself to rainy Yamaguchi, Japan for a while. Currently Adam lives in rainy Vancouver, where his days are spent writing, watching movies and spying on people through his apartment window like a regular L.B Jefferies.
Blogs by this Author
I’m continuing today, albeit after quite a delay, my series of articles on war-time British war films that started with my article on In Which We Serve. This article will look at another film ...
One thing I missed while living in Japan was being able to switch the TV on late at night and catch some random old picture I otherwise wouldn't have watched. Switching on the TV late at night in Ja...
Ever since I saw The Big Sleep as a child, I’ve been a fan of Raymond Chandler. Knowing my affection for the film, one of the first presents my future sister-in-law gave me was a copy of Chand...
I suppose if you've grown up in Los Angeles or New York, you're quite used to seeing your neck of the woods depicted in film and television. This probably extends to the people of any major American...
A few months ago I wrote an article on remakes of Kurosawa films. Not famous Western efforts like The Magnificent Seven or The Outrage, but rather attempts by the Japanese themselves over the ...
It often seems like with these big films you know the whole thing before it comes out. I've mentioned the pros and cons of this a couple of times before. It certainly seemed to be the case with The ...
It was very wise of Warner Brothers to tie the debut of the Watchmen trailer into the release of The Dark Knight, melding the two together in the minds of audiences as straight faced peas in th...
A word of warning at the start. These impressions of L: Change The World contain some spoilers regarding the plot of the second Death Note film, The Last Name. I don't normally give a hoot about spo...
My trip to the multiplex continues with the new Will Smith film Hancock (and most likely with conclude with a trip to see The Dark Knight in a few weeks). In my post about The Happening the other da...
It was purely in the interests of science that I watched The Happening. By the time I had got around to watching it, it was quite clear what kind of film it would be. But I’m always intrigued ...
