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It’s only a move

..just a movie

..just a movie

..just a movie

If you grew up believing that World of the Apes told you all you necessary to find out about politics, that Slade in Flame was a savage exposé from the pop world, and that The Exorcist revealed this is of life, then you probably spent too many of the formative years at the cinema. Just as likely, you quickly could have realised that there was only one career accessible to you – you’d have to turn into a film on the subject of It’s Just a Movie: Reel Existence Adventures of the Film Obsessive critic.

In It’s only a Movie, the incomparable Tag Kermode will take us in to the weird world of the life lived in widescreen. Join him as he embarks on the gut-wrenching trip through the former Soviet Union on the path of the low spending budget horror flick Dark Waters, cringe as he’s handbagged by Helen Mirren in the Bafta honours ceremony, cheer as he gets thrown out from the Cannes film celebration for heckling in extremely bad French, and don’t forget to gasp as he’s shot at while interviewing Werner Herzog in the Hollywood hillsides. Written with sardonic wit and wry great humour, this convincing cinematic memoir is usually genuinely ‘influenced by real events’.