DANNY LEIGH, CONSULTANT EDITOR
Danny Leigh is a journalist who regularly writes about
movies for the Financial Times and The Guardian.
Since 2010, he has cohosted BBC Television’s long-
running Film program, as well as writing and hosting
documentaries for BBC TV and radio. He has also worked
in film education and programming. Danny has written
two novels, The Greatest Gift and The Monsters of
Gramercy Park.
LOUIS BAXTER
Louis Baxter started watching and writing about movies as
a boy, making his way through his parents’ VHS collection
and staying up until 3 a.m. to watch horror movies. He started
his own movie blog and contributed to many others before
studying film at Westminster University, London. He has
since developed screenplays for a movie company and worked
as a freelance writer and critic, specializing in horror movies.
JOHN FARNDON
John Farndon is a Royal Literary Fellow at Anglia Ruskin
University in Cambridge and an author, playwright,
composer, and poet. He taught the history of drama at the
Actors Studio, studied playwriting at Central School of
Speech and Drama, and is now Assessor for new plays for
London’s OffWestEnd Theatre Awards. He has also written
many international best-sellers such as Do You Think You’re
Clever? and translated into English verse the plays of Lope
de Vega and the poetry of Alexander Pushkin.
KIERAN GRANT
Kieran Grant is a writer and editor who lives in London.
He has written about movies and television for Radio Times,
the FILMCLUB website, and various licensed publications,
and once traveled in the footsteps of Peter O’Toole’s
Lawrence of Arabia for Esquire magazine. He has been
in love with British cinema since he first saw Black
Narcissus on a big screen at university, and is proud
to have made a tiny contribution by writing and
codirecting The Lights (2015), a short film produced
in association with the BFI and Film London. DAMON WISE
A movie writer since 1987, Damon Wise is a Contributing
Editor with Empire magazine and an advisor to the BFI
London Film Festival’s Thrill strand. As a journalist, his
features, interviews, and reviews have been published in
many notable UK magazines and newspapers. In addition to
covering set visits and junkets, he is a regular attendee at
key international film festivals. In 1998, he published
his first book, Come by Sunday, a biography of British
movie star Diana Dors.CONTRIBUTORS