‘I am left grinning’: why The Dish is my feelgood movie

The latest in our series of writers picking their most loved comfort films is a 2000 Australian gem featuring the late Sam Neill After the shock of Sam Neill’s death, I was surprised just how hard the news hit me. I don’t usually take a celebrity death so deeply to heart and yet here I was struggling to stem the weeping. There is no denying he holds a special place in my movie-watching life: he’s Dr Alan Grant from Jurassic Park, for goodness sake. I first saw the Spielbergian masterpiece at ...

By Jonathan Wilkes