June 18, 2010October 28, 2022Uncategorized The French ministry of movies? Watch the opening credits any film produced in France or by a French director. You’ll inevitably see the words ‘Canal+’. It’s a […]
June 18, 2010October 28, 2022Uncategorized Fatal Attraction or errant breasts There’s a scene in Fatal Attraction the morning after Dan (Michael Douglas) and Alex (Glenn Close) first spend the night together. Alex […]
March 18, 2010November 3, 2022Uncategorized Want to see something really scary? There’s a recording somewhere in a Hollywood vault you can hear in a hundred horror scenes, scenes set in jungles and scenes […]
February 19, 2010November 3, 2022Uncategorized You’re walkin’ where? If you grew up in the 70s and 80s like I did, you were probably much more aware of the Back to […]
January 8, 2010November 3, 2022Uncategorized Beethoven, for sci-fi and brutal sexual assault alike Have you ever heard a piece of music by Beethoven called Symphony No 7 in A Major? It’s uniquely beautiful and haunting, […]
December 23, 2009October 11, 2022Uncategorized Is Venkman burning in hell? Straight after the title card scene at the beginning of Ghostbusters, we’re taken into the halls of Columbia University to the door […]
December 22, 2009October 11, 2022Uncategorized Jackson does Hitchcock Movies aren’t exactly new, but for many a year directors were a professional class, not like today where the biggest directors are […]
December 8, 2009October 11, 2022Uncategorized You try typing when you just want to kill someone When Wendy Torrance (Shelley Duvall) finds the manuscript of the book Jack’s (Jack Nicholson) been writing since their arrival at the Overlook […]
December 3, 2009October 11, 2022Uncategorized Keep your arms inside the vehicle You remember Michael Ironside. Anyone who came of age in the 1980s remembers a cool show called V about an alien race […]
November 24, 2009October 11, 2022Uncategorized What do Alicia Silverstone and Michael Moore have in common? True Crime with Alicia Silverstone is a strange little mystery movie, a disjointed mix of Nancy Drew innocence in the lead character but […]