Carl Jones' Movie Blog


Blog: Bond must get back to what makes 007 great

Blog: With an Oscar-winning actor playing the baddie, and an Oscar-winning director at the helm, the signs are certainly looking good for the 23rd James Bond film, which starts shooting next month, writes Carl Jones.

Blog: Bond must get back to what makes 007 great

Blog: Why I’m hoarding the ‘proper’ lightbulbs

The eco-friendly bright sparks at the European Union have had another “lightbulb moment”, notes Carl Jones.

Blog: Why I’m hoarding the ‘proper’ lightbulbs

Captain America – Carl Jones’s film review

Movie expert Carl Jones takes a look at Captain America in this week’s edition of The Ticket.

Captain America – Carl Jones’s film review
Blog: Should David Cameron have gone on The One Show?

Blog: David Cameron rated his own life just “six out of ten” when he appeared on BBC’s magazine programme The One Show last night.

Blog: Should David Cameron have gone on The One Show?

Blog: Parents are the trouble, not young footballers

Blog: Carl Jones explains why aggressive parents made him decide to stop working as a football referee with the Shropshire FA.

Blog: Parents are the trouble, not young footballers

Blog: Ah, Mr Bond…

Blog: No sooner is the green light given to a new James Bond film, than the internet is filled with idle gossip and far-fetched, unfounded rumour, writes Carl Jones.

Blog: Ah, Mr Bond…

Carl Jones’s Films of 2010

Shropshire Star film critic Carl Jones looks back over the best and worst of 2010′s cinema releases.

Carl Jones’s Films of 2010

Blog: My condenser boiler hell

Blog: It was another snowy, sub-zero night in Shropshire, writes Carl Jones.  Here I was, armed with a kettle of boiling hot water, floundering in the dark outside my mother’s house. Yes, you guessed it – she’s got a condenser central heating boiler.

Blog: My condenser boiler hell

Fun and fjords on an Arctic Circle cruise

CARL JONES cruises into the Arctic Circle for 12 days of fjords, fine dining and stylish fun

Fun and fjords on an Arctic Circle cruise

Wake up! It’s the World Cup!

Is this the dullest  World Cup so far, asks Carl Jones.

Wake up! It’s the World Cup!

Higgins faces battle of life over bribes claim

Allegations of corruption and bribery have cast a huge cloud over the showpiece of snooker, writes Carl Jones in Sheffield.

Higgins faces battle of life over bribes claim

Carl Jones on the 2010 Oscars

So there we have it. This year’s Oscars will pretty much be a straight shootout between blockbuster fantasy and gritty fact-based drama.

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