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Half a century of cinema: My Life In Movies.
My Life In Movies (Half Century Edition) A few years back, when Twitter was still a reasonably okay place to hang out, the hashtag #ThisIsYourFilm was making the rounds where you had to choose your favourite movie from every year you’ve been alive. As I’ve just reached the major milestone of 50, I thought it might be fun to look across half a century of cinema and list my favourite movies from…
Cheesy and charming in equal measure, At The Earth's Core is a prime slice of seventies sci-fi hokum ennobled by Peter Cushing and embiggened by Doug McClure, who you may remember from other films. #Review
At The Earth’s Core sees seventies sci-fi hit rock bottom and start digging! The dictionary defines “Amicus Brief” as document filed by someone who is not a party to a case but has a strong interest in the subject matter. “Amicus” is Latin for “friend,” and an Amicus Brief, is often referred to as a “friend of the court” brief. For AT THE EARTH’S CORE, my Amicus Brief was to review this classic…
King Kong (1976) brings our prehistoric primate bang up to date in a then-contemporary reimagining. #Review
There’s more than a hint of opportunistic JAWS cash-in the Dino De Laurentiis’ ambitious remake of the 1933 classic. With a script by then go-to screenwriter Lorenzo Semple Jr (best known, perhaps, for TV’s BATMAN), the 1976 KING KONG is, to date, the only telling of the original Kong story to have an entirely contemporary setting. With the oil crisis in full swing, Petrox Oil Company executive…
A couple of years ago, a Twitter #ThisIsYourFilm was making the rounds where you had to choose your favourite movie from every year you’ve been alive. Well, it’s come back round again so here, revised and updated, are my favourite movies from every year I’ve been alive. At least it’s still favouritemovies and not ‘best’ movies otherwise this could have taken forever. So, without further ado, for…
I’ve often used @TheMarckoGuy’s #Month Of Spooks as a chance to catch up on classic horror movie’s I’ve never seen before but this year, I decided to revisit a film which freaked me all the way out when I first saw it at probably far too young an age. John Verney (Richard Widmark) is an American occult novelist, stying in Europe. When Catherine (Nastassja Kinski), the daughter of his close friend…
So…with it being my birthday, I figured why not do a post around the Twitter hashtag #ThisIsYourFilm where you choose your favourite movie from every year you’ve been alive. Piece of piss, right? Won’t take that long. Oh boy, was I wrong. Even now, as I’m writing this opening preamble, I’m still second-guessing some of my choices, especially for the decade from 1984 to 1994. At least it’s…
