Jack Murray, Author at Frame Rated

I'm Jack, the former TV & Radio Editor of Edinburgh's The Student. I currently develop TV shows for a production company and drink lots of San Pellegrino Limonata.

Film Review

BRIDGE OF SPIES (2015)

Bridge of Spies (or Mr. Hanks Goes to East Berlin) is a seriously classy piece of refined, plush cinema that manages to balance the...

TV Review

THIS IS ENGLAND ’90 – ‘Winter’

Breaking up is hard to do. Or at least that’s what The Carpenters told us. And if this was the break up of the...

TV Review

THIS IS ENGLAND ’90 – ‘Autumn’

Sunday night, 9pm, is a TV timeslot made for the warm bubblebath that is Downton Abbey. It’s a time of the week that demands...

TV Review

THIS IS ENGLAND ’90 – ‘Summer’

It couldn’t last, could it? The relative breeze that was the opening episode of This is England 90 has proved, as expected, to be...

TV Review

THIS IS ENGLAND ’90 – ‘Spring’

Early on in the first episode of This is England ’90, Gadget (Andrew Ellis)—who might as well have been looking straight down the lens...

Film Review

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – ROGUE NATION (2015)

There’s never enough at stake in Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation. It whizzes along at a quip-a-minute, with stunning stunts from handsome Tom Cruise, and...

TV Review

TRUE DETECTIVE, 2.6 – ‘Church in Ruins’

If the first season of True Detective felt like the work of a TV writer who’d read far too many novels (with its heavy doses...

Film Review

SOUTHPAW (2015)

There’s a theory espoused by former Grantland editor Bill Simmons that sometimes people are just ready for certain movies; that the success of some...

Features

For Your Reconsideration: Vince Vaughn

You don’t worry about being liked. You have to be yourself. —Vince Vaughn He could probably have been a wrestler; this towering, half-handsome hunk...

Film Review

EX MACHINA (2015)

The helicopter blades whirling over greenery in the opening of Alex Garland’s Ex Machina are eerily, deliberately reminiscent of Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park. The parallels...