The biography of Steve Jobs is without a doubt the most anticipated biography to be released yet. Steve Jobs personally gave the author of this book, Walter Issaacson, exclusive rights to his life story. There is no doubt that Mr. Jobs kept most of his life away from the public, until now. There is little information about what exactly the biography will include, but we already know that the book will include a mashup of over 2 years of interviews with Jobs, his friends and fami...

“That movie was absolutely French.” The man next to me couldn't have been more right: at the end of Making Plans for Léna, I could feel the collective “what the...” that tends to pass through people's heads at the end of a particularly “French” movie. But what makes a movie seem French? It's not the language or even the location: there are hundreds of movies that were set in France, made in France, in French with French actors and French directors that don't c...

The dark arts of feature film funding have always been a complete mystery to me and I don’t think I am alone in that regard. It may possibly be down to a peculiarly British sensibility of rank embarrassment at ‘selling yourself.’ Or it might be down to the C Grade I had in my Maths GCSE.Unless your as hideously talented as Nick Cave, who wrote The Proposition in 4 weeks, your script will be the result of months of painstaking, finger bleeding, relationship ending, sanity stretching re-writ...