After forays into school and college magazines, John's first newspaper film review appeared in the ILKLEY & OTLEY MAIL in 1989 and was a review of Tim Burton's Batman. John was already working within the sister newspaper's advertising department when the opportunity came to see the film and the published review began a fairly regular box-office column that would appear in a combination of ILKLEY & OTLEY MAIL, WHARFE VALLEY TIMES and PUDSEY TIMES for the next four years. During this time...