Dirk’s Five – Daft Computers
Back in 1982, when THE THING was released, the appearance of a desk top computer was something really special. The home computing boom hadn’t really started, so we were gleefully […]
Monthly Archives: April 2011
CHRIS: The Thing (Carpenter, US, 1982)
“…satiation rather than horror…” – Derek Malcolm “You’ve gotta be fucking kidding.” – Palmer If we are not going to have AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS, then we will have […]
STARBURST MEMORIES: Home Entertainment
Watching HIDDEN again, I was struck by how the presence of video tapes seemed to date a film that was made relatively recently. I have just gone through a painful […]
Dirk’s Five – Heist Disguises
“There are over 300 bank robberies in Boston every year. Most of these professionals live in a 1-square-mile neighborhood called Charlestown.” Dirk watched THE TOWN (2010) over the weekend, Ben Affleck‘s […]
CHRIS: Caché (Hidden) (Haneke, France, Austria, Germany, Italy, 2005)
Haneke is a both a film-maker and film-academic. He manages to work these two roles simultaneously to create cinema that gets under the skin and bang the audience’s head out […]
STARBURST MEMORIES: Excalibur
A friend of mine was convinced that he had a Moff Tarkin figure in the 1970s. Regular readers of Dirk Malcolm will know that this is impossible, as the figure […]
Dirk’s Five – Factories
End of the day, factory whistle cries, Men walk through these gates with death in their eyes. And you just better believe, boy, somebody’s gonna get hurt tonight, It’s the […]
Friday Fives: Magic Users
Prompted by Otis T Roofdog’s response to The Excalibur post yesterday (by the way, it was shown last night on ITV3, the official Dirk Malcolm channel) I have cobbled together […]
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