Welcome to our team

Movies1 has been around for almost 20 years in one form or another but we've only just decided to create our very own blog, so we decided the first thing we had to do is introduce our team.

Russell Forgham

MANAGING EDITOR

Former Fleet Street journalist, lifelong film buff and co-founder of Movies1. When he's not watching films he helps people at Citizens Advice and is an intrepid traveller, visiting every continent in the world - including Antarctica.

Marianne Gray

EDITOR

Former president of the British Critics’ Circle and teaches young filmmakers how to criticise a film for the BFI. She is also a director of Peckhamplex in London and has written biographies of Gerard Depardieu and Jeanne Moreau.

Carol Allen

Film critic since 1980 and has contributed to the BBC, LBC, The Times, Cosmopolitan, New Woman, 9-5, Close-Up Film and others. She teaches drama to older people though her charity Cat’s Whiskers Community Arts.

Alexa Dalby

Film journalist since 1990, reviewing and interviewing for press and radio. Interested in independent and non-English-language films, co-editor of a specialist website. Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic.

Richard Fitzwilliams

Royal commentator, film critic, lecturer and public relations consultant. He has has done over 1,000 TV interviews, written numerous articles and is the weekly film critic for Talk Radio Europe (Spain) and Siren FM (Lincoln University).

Jonathan Hart

Jonathan has worked as a film journalist for Scotland on Sunday, CNN Entertainment in New York and numerous radio programmes. He is the Associate Director of the French Film Festival and has interviewed hundreds of stars.

Dennis Leachman

Retired engineer and a movie junkie since he saw North by Northwest four times in 1960, just in time for the flowering of the French New Wave, and Ingmar Bergman, Satyajit Ray and all those great names of that time. 

William Russell

Former political journalist on the Glasgow Herald and for 24 years the paper's film critic as well as one of its theatre critics, He currently reviews films for Movies1 and theatre for the online Reviewsgate.

Camila Sotomayor

Trained as an architect, and completed her PhD on the subject of material decay, drawing greatly from filmmaking for references. Currently writing an illustrated children's book on climate change and our own ageing.