What I tend to do is study what's coming out and then I'll decide what to see at my local cinema instead. Are there any films recently which have got you excited? I'll tell you one thing, I am not one of those people who bemoan the fact that they don't make films the way they used to. I think that is bullshit. I think that the best films today are as good as, and technically better, than anything made before. I also think that the worst films made today are much crapper than those from years back, and sometimes even worse. An awful lot of money is spent on rather rubbish-y blockbusters aimed at 15 to 18 year-olds. Those are the kinds of films that, even back in the so-called golden age of Hollywood, would simply not have been made because they're such rubbish. Nevertheless, I do firmly believe that the best films are getting better, and that's what keeps me going back to the cinema. I refuse to be stuck back in a nostalgic era of thinking that everything was better in the old days, because it wasn't. What do you think of modern film criticism? Do you read much online? I do read online opinions but I don't take much notice of them simply because I don't know these people. I prefer to follow the critics whose work I'm familiar with, and I know how their minds work because I've read their stuff throughout the years, and