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I am a screenwriter and director based in the UK and this is my personal website. It has no real focus or order and I just keep updating and changing it on a kind of ad hoc basis. If there's something here you're interested in, then all for the good.
My first feature film (and let's face it, probably the reason you're here) is the atmospheric and creepy horror movie, "DEATHWATCH" set in the trenches of World War One. It has been released theatrically and on DVD throught the world to some critical and commercial success. (though more in some places than others it has to be said.) It did pretty good business in the UK - Number 4 at the cinema and Number 1 DVD.
In my time I have also been a TV presenter/host specializing in wildlife and science programmes and I used to produce and direct documentaries about feature films - the target=stage>electronic press kits - that are now a standard part of DVD releases as well as being a puppeteer and presenter of children's TV but you can find out about that stuff in the biography page if you're really interested - or insomniac.
Please feel free to have a browse through the stuff on this site. It's a personal page which is thrown together and just evolves and changes at my whim. Drop me an email if you like but just to say, please don't email me through scripts and story ideas because I can't read them for all sorts of legal reasons.
Region 1, 2 and 3 DVD of Deathwatch available NOW!
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Deathwatch review from Amazon:
"A small group of English soldiers find themselves in a labyrinth of abandoned German trenches in Deathwatch, a reworking of the classic British supernatural horror tale as a redemptive allegory amid the wider horror of the Great War. The very earth has had its fill of blood and this lost company may already be in hell: imagine the BBC TV film All the Kings Men (1999) crossed with Cube (1997), as realised by a young Ridley Scott. Only Charlie Shakespeare, an impressive Jamie Bell, is sufficiently innocent to realise the evil of the trenches is turning comrade against comrade, resulting in the gradually escalating carnage.
Director Michael J Bassett effectively wracks the tension, aided greatly by a wonderfully decayed set design and story, which may meander, but builds to a chillingly surreal finale. Bell is given strong support from Matthew Rhys and a psychotic Andy Serkis, while Bassett has a fine eye for lighting and composition, as well as the ability to deliver some horrifically effective set-pieces. Taking itself much more seriously than its comparable contemporary, Dog Soldiers (2002), Deathwatch was shamefully overlooked in the cinemas but is surely a future cult classic just awaiting discovery."
If you're visiting this site then the very least you can do now is go and buy a copy of the film. It'll be in a bargain bin near you soon!
Also - and this is important - all the opinions expressed here are just me shooting my mouth off. If you know me don't get offended.
And of course, everything you read here is copyrighted to me or the relevant parties so don't copy, use or steal anything without permission. Thanks.
