About this blog

Founded at the start of October 2006, the Pocket Films Blog aims to provide a handy overview of the week’s UK cinema releases, alongside news, reviews and movie gossip about screen stars’ latest projects.

This blog is an online offshoot of the Pocket Films CALENDAR, the largest-circulation film and DVD guide in the UK, published for BBC Worldwide in association with Radio Times.

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About the blog’s editor

J. Clive Matthews is a freelance writer and editor, living in London. He has been writing about film for the last nine years, in publications as diverse as Starburst and the Times Literary Supplement, and is the author of two books of film criticism in the acclaimed Virgin Film series, on Tim Burton and The Lord of the Rings. He has also been blogging regularly for several years, and has been shortlisted for weblog awards by the Guardian, Deutsche Welle International and The Weblog Awards, amongst others.