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Chris Deacy @DeacyChris

Radio & TV presenter, film critic, podcast host, diarist, author of 6 monographs, journalist on BFI-funded TV series, Honorary Reader at University of Kent.

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Cabin at the Movies Saturday 13 June 2026 chrisdeacy.com/2026/06/14/ca… via @DeacyChris

Cabin at the Movies Saturday 13 June 2026

On this week’s programme I was joined by Olivia Carter, a student in English Language & Linguistics at the University of Kent, to talk about some of her all-time favourite films. From the…

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Disclosure Day (Steven Spielberg, 2026) chrisdeacy.com/2026/06/12/di… via @DeacyChris

Disclosure Day (Steven Spielberg, 2026)

There are clear links here with ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’, the first of Steven Spielberg’s great alien films, and with the conspiracy-driven sensibility that continued through ‘E.T.’ Yet…

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Tuner (Daniel Roher, 2025) chrisdeacy.com/2026/06/04/tu… via @DeacyChris

Tuner (Daniel Roher, 2025)

‘Tuner’ is a sharply edited, highly polished crime drama that feels like a throwback to the kind of intelligent adult thrillers Hollywood used to make in the 1970s. What elevates it beyond a straig…

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Hook (Steven Spielberg, 1991) chrisdeacy.com/2026/06/01/ho… via @DeacyChris

Hook (Steven Spielberg, 1991)

What happens when the boy who never grew up ends up doing exactly that? ‘Hook’ takes the familiar Peter Pan story and asks a surprisingly interesting question: what if Peter has become the very thi…

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Catch Me If You Can (Steven Spielberg, 2002) chrisdeacy.com/2026/06/01/ca… via @DeacyChris

Catch Me If You Can (Steven Spielberg, 2002)

There is something slightly flimsy about ‘Catch Me If You Can’, though I mean that less as a criticism than as a reflection of its breezy, old-fashioned quality. With its caper-style score by John …

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Finding Emily (Alicia MacDonald, 2026) chrisdeacy.com/2026/05/24/fi… via @DeacyChris

Finding Emily (Alicia MacDonald, 2026)

‘Finding Emily’ comes from the same sort of stable – at least in terms of its Working Title Films pedigree – that gave us films like ‘Notting Hill’ and ‘Bridget Jones’s Diary’. It operates in that …

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Romería (Carla Simón, 2025) chrisdeacy.com/2026/05/24/ro… via @DeacyChris

Romería (Carla Simón, 2025)

‘Romería’ is an intriguing film because it draws on diaries, fragments and half-truths – the kinds of stories and omissions that many families construct around themselves. At its centre is Marina (…

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Normal (Ben Wheatley, 2025) chrisdeacy.com/2026/05/24/no… via @DeacyChris

Normal (Ben Wheatley, 2025)

‘Normal’ is very much in the vein of ‘Nobody’, again starring Bob Odenkirk, and follows that familiar one-man-against-the-world template. Odenkirk plays an unassuming temporary sheriff who seems al…

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Obsession (Curry Barker, 2025) chrisdeacy.com/2026/05/18/ob… via @DeacyChris

Obsession (Curry Barker, 2025)

‘Obsession’ reminded me a little of ‘Flatliners’ in the sense that it explores characters trying to seize control over emotional outcomes rather than allowing life – or fate – to unfold naturally. …

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The Christophers (Steven Soderbergh, 2025) chrisdeacy.com/2026/05/18/th… via @DeacyChris

The Christophers (Steven Soderbergh, 2025)

This is a terrific role for Ian McKellen in a film that frankly doesn’t feel like typical multiplex fare. I saw it on a Friday night at the cinema with only a couple of other people in the audience…

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Misery (Rob Reiner, 1990) chrisdeacy.com/2026/05/14/mi… via @DeacyChris

Misery (Rob Reiner, 1990)

‘Misery’ is a mesmerizing psychological thriller with a great deal to say about the writing process itself – about the superstitions and anxieties that surround creativity, the fear of writer’s blo…

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Cabin FM Tuesday 12 May 2026 chrisdeacy.com/2026/05/13/ca… via @DeacyChris

Cabin FM Tuesday 12 May 2026

Highlights from Afternoons on Cabin on 12 May 2026.

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All the President's Men (Alan J. Pakula, 1976) chrisdeacy.com/2026/05/06/al… via @DeacyChris

All the President’s Men (Alan J. Pakula, 1976)

‘All the President’s Men’ is a hugely intelligent drama that tells us a great deal about the labyrinthine corridors of power. It’s gripping from start to finish, though also so dense with secret na…

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The Devil Wears Prada 2 (David Frankel, 2026) chrisdeacy.com/2026/05/02/th… via @DeacyChris

The Devil Wears Prada 2 (David Frankel, 2026)

Based on the trailer, I thought this was going to be insipid – a disappointing attempt to rekindle a formula that worked perfectly well as a one-off 20 years ago. But ‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ actu…

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Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood, 2004) chrisdeacy.com/2026/04/11/mi… via @DeacyChris

Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood, 2004)

‘Million Dollar Baby’ is an outstanding film – beautifully textured and one that almost wrong-foots you on a first viewing, because for much of its running time it feels like a layered, character-d…

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KMTV Kent Tonight Thursday 9 April 2026 chrisdeacy.com/2026/04/09/km… via @DeacyChris

KMTV Kent Tonight Thursday 9 April 2026

Chris Deacy talking to Kristin Hawthorne at KMTV about biopics ahead of the release of the new Michael Jackson movie. And find out Chris’s favourite biopic and what works and doesn’t work with film…

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The Drama (Kristoffer Borgli, 2026) chrisdeacy.com/2026/04/04/th… via @DeacyChris

The Drama (Kristoffer Borgli, 2026)

This is a film that certainly lives up to its title. At times ‘The Drama’ is almost excruciating to watch. We follow an engaged couple who, just days before their wedding, are thrown into crisis by…

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Cabin FM Tuesday 31 March 2026 chrisdeacy.com/2026/04/01/ca… via @DeacyChris

Cabin FM Tuesday 31 March 2026

Highlights from Afternoons on Cabin on 31 March 2026 when I was joined in the studio by new presenter at Cabin FM Michael Dunne. There’s community and film news, birthdays, On This Day In His…

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Cabin at the Movies Saturday 28 March 2026 chrisdeacy.com/2026/03/29/ca… via @DeacyChris

Cabin at the Movies Saturday 28 March 2026

I was joined by James Looseley for this week’s programme. James has chosen a striking range of films, including The Shawshank Redemption (a first-time pick for the show), Unforgiven, Jaws (a …

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