Tony has curated his second season of films for London’s National Film Theatre.
In August the NFT will present a season entitled Hollywood Nonconformist comprising 14 titles from the McQueen canon. Rarities will include Baby, The Rain Must Fall and An Enemy of the People, the latter McQueen’s gutsy attempt at Ibsen.
To kick off the strand […]

The London-based Film Distributors’ Association has announced the end of Cinema Days, the long-standing weekend of film previews and press conferences targeted at the UK’s regional film journalists.
The event has been running for more than 20 years and was an invaluable tool for regional journalists in providing access to new releases and related talent. The […]

The National Film Theatre in London has commissioned Tony to write and deliver a new lecture on the life and films of Steve McQueen to tie-in with the 80th anniversary of the year of his birth.
Provisionally entitled Steve McQueen: Hollywood Nonconformist, the 60-minute illustrated lecture will tie-in to a planned retrospective of the actor’s films, […]

Tony is to interview legendary British film critic Barry Norman as part of the inaugural Holmfirth Film Festival (May 22-29 2010).
The Q&A is slated for 7.30pm on Thursday, May 27, at the Picturedrome Cinema, Holmfirth’s very own independent picture house. The event will mark Tony’s second on-stage encounter with Barry, who previously was his guest […]

Tony’s accidental career as an actor continues with both a touring theatre production and the release of a new feature film.
Following its sell-out shows at the National Media Museum last summer, Bradford-based Paper Zoo’s excellent production of George Orwell’s 1984 is to begin touring the UK. The play will first travel to Manchester followed by […]

An appearance by Tony on Sky News this week led to a reunion of sorts with Colin Brazier, now one of Sky’s premier presenters.
Both Colin and Tony worked at the Yorkshire Post in the mid-’90s. So it was with some amusement that Tony found himself being interviewed by his former colleague about the increasing number […]

Tony’s book Beating the Devil, an examination of the making of the classic ’50s horror movie Night of the Demon, continues to pick up great reviews almost five years after it was published.
The latest praise for Tony’s most successful and acclaimed book, headlined “A Demon of a book”, can be found on the website Xenoramic […]

Tony has completed two long days of shooting on the new historical drama The King’s Speech, which filmed in Leeds and Bradford earlier this week.
The movie stars Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham-Carter, Derek Jacobi and Timothy Spall. Tony, cast as a policeman, took part in a key scene in which Firth, playing the Duke […]

Tony will join the multitude thronging Odsal Stadium on Wednesday and Thursday this week as a massive crowd scene is recreated for the new period drama The King’s Speech.
Having previously acted in a feature film and a short, appeared in a documentary and provided a voice-over for a stage play, Tony has never provided his […]

Tony was delighted to see colleagues from the Yorkshire Post collecting a bunch of gongs at the Yorkshire Press Awards.
The haul included best photographer, best business writer, best political writer and, to top it all, newspaper of the year.
Many congratulations to all concerned.