The Cinema Fix is a website for all film and TV lovers everywhere. It’s a mix of reviews, articles, essays, news and thoughts on new and classic releases. It is intended to be honest, irreverent, funny and hopefully intelligent.

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The Cinema Fix’s main writer is Paul. He has been committed to a writing career from a very early age. In 1997, he graduated from Staffordshire University with a first class degree in Film, TV and Radio Studies. His 2nd year short film project THE ARTS FILE won a Stoke-on-Trent Young Filmmaker’s award. Subsequently, he worked as a Production Assistant on a number of promos and successfully completed a work placement at Sky Movies. In 2002, he gained an MA in Feature Film Screenwriting from Royal Holloway College of London and since graduation has written several feature and many short film scripts. In 2005, he formed FIX FILMS and has written and produced several shorts and promos to date. He has also had several short screenplays commissioned by the Mountview Film Academy, Northern Film School and film director Jonathan Wolff. He also provided crew and production assistance while working at Raindance Film School/Festival between 2021 and 2024. His work can be found here – https://www.youtube.com/@FixFilmsLtd/videos

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Most recently Paul wrote, directed and produced the short horror film, THE SUICIDE SHIFT (2026) for release in 2026. He also released INFERIS (2024) and the SIN (2025) monologue anthology. Both projects were released for film festival and online screenings to relative success and acclaim. He has written and directed other short films called: FLATMATES (2018), MISDIRECTION (2019), TOLERANCE (2019) and YOU HAVE A NEW FOLLOWER (2020). His short films have had screenings worldwide at many film festivals from London to Florida to Greece, Ireland, Brazil and Southend-on-Sea!

Paul is a versatile and prolific writer with ideas in abundance and a very strong feel for structure, characterisation and dialogue. He favours thought-provoking and entertaining narratives with memorable characters, images and scenes. While he values all styles of film he tends toward genre movies as opposed to overtly “arty” cinema. Moreover, being involved in the producing, casting and crewing of low budget shorts has given him great experience and insight into the filmmaking process; improving his writing no end.

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From 2008 to 2020, Paul was on the exciting merry-go-round that is the stand-up comedy circuit. He did over 1000+ gigs to date. Venues include: Downstairs at the King’s Head, The Comedy Pit, The Comedy Cafe, Soho Comedy, London Comedy Store, Electric Mouse Comedy, Streatham Comedy Club, Mirth Control, Comedy Heat, Lion’s Den Comedy etc. He also ran two comedy nights: West End Comedy @ The Comedy Pub and West End Comedy @ The Brazen Head. He also used to be the resident MC at Electric Mouse’s show at The Fox, Palmers Green and got regular paid bookings as a comic and MC in and out of town. In 2014 and 2016 he performed at the Brighton Fringe Festival and Camden Fringe Festival in 2014. He also performed open spots at The Comedy Store, Banana Cabaret and Up the Creek comedy clubs in London.

He is also a keen film and television seer and has a passion for all genres of movies from art-house to low-budget z-movies. He also loves television of all kinds notably great comedies and dramas. He is a budding essayist expressing his passion for his favourite films and programmes in this little blog.

Links

Blog: www.thecinemafix.com
YouTube: www.youtube.com/c/FixFilmsLtd

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