Mike Sutton

1 month ago | bfi.org.uk | Sam Wigley |Richard Pickard |Mike Sutton |Joseph Fahim

Where’s it on? Blu-rayHere is a 1980s romcom to rank alongside Moonstruck (1987) or When Harry Met Sally (1989). Brimming with life and humour, Crossing Delancey is Joan Micklin Silver’s tale of a thirtysomething Jewish New Yorker (Amy Irving) who falls for an attractive author (Jeroen Krabbé) at the bookstore where she works. Meanwhile, her mother – keen to marry her off – sets her up on a date with a pickle salesman on the Lower East Side (Local Hero’s Peter Riegert).

1 month ago | bfi.org.uk | Richard Pickard Lists |Richard Pickard |Mike Sutton |Joseph Fahim

Despite being one of the most popular genres with movie lovers, horror films have long struggled to make headway with the Academy. A visceral genre that ignites the senses, its best offerings hold up a mirror to the social order, yet scary movies are still largely overlooked in favour of the more palatable dramas and biopics which remain the ceremony’s bread and butter.

May 20, 2024 | chemistryworld.com | Mike Sutton

Few compounds have a story as controversial as this insecticide. Mike Sutton traces the tale from its beginning 150 years ago Before its synthesis in 1874, dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethylene was unknown to science. For decades afterwards, it remained one among many (apparently) useless chemical compounds prepared by PhD students and subsequently ignored. Then in the 1940s, it was found to have a lethal impact on insects that transmit serious human diseases.

Sep 27, 2023 | chemistryworld.com | Mike Sutton

Only two of the discoverers of the sandwich compounds that revolutionised organometallic chemistry received the Nobel prize, leaving one very big name feeling left out. Mike Sutton traces the controversy Every autumn, the worldwide scientific community looks expectantly towards the Swedish city of Stockholm – and when the new Nobel prize-winners are finally announced, a debate often follows.

Aug 18, 2023 | dx.doi.org | Matteo Molteni |Gary Walker |Mike Sutton

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