Former Fleet Street journalist, lifelong film buff and co-founder of Movies1. When he’s not watching films he helps people at Citizens Advice and is an intrepid traveller, and has visited every continent in the world – including Antarctica.

Former president of the British Critics’ Circle and teaches young filmmakers how to criticise a film for the BFI. She is also a director of Peckhamplex in London and has written biographies of Gerard Depardieu and Jeanne Moreau.

Film critic since 1980 and has contributed to the BBC, LBC, The Times, Cosmopolitan, New Woman, 9-5, Close-Up Film and others. She teaches drama to older people though her charity Cat’s Whiskers Community Arts.

Film journalist since 1990, reviewing and interviewing for press and radio. Interested in independent and non-English-language films, co-editor of a specialist website. Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic.

Jonathan has worked as a film journalist for Scotland on Sunday, CNN Entertainment in New York and numerous radio programmes. He is the Associate Director of the French Film Festival and has interviewed hundreds of stars.

Former political journalist on the Glasgow Herald and for 24 years he was also the paper’s film
critic as well as one of its theatre critics, He currently reviews films for Movies1 and theatre for the online Reviewsgate.

Trained as an architect, and completed her PhD on the subject of material decay, drawing greatly from filmmaking for references. Currently writing an illustrated children’s book on climate change and our own ageing.