STARBURST MEMORIES: Loving the ALIEN?
Thanks to red wine and ebay, a fatal combination, I have been steadily rebuilding my collection of Starburst Magazines from the late 70s and early 80s. It has been striking […]
Monthly Archives: November 2012
Dirk’s Five – Hong Kong
Though it’s had its golden and not-so-golden periods, Hong Kong is and always has been a filmmaking hub for the Chinese-speaking world, perhaps because of its dramatic skyline and harbour […]
ANDY: Chungking Express (Wong, Hong Kong, 1994)
For me, Hong Kong is the most cinematic of cityscapes. By night it can feel like wandering through the neo-noir labyrinth of Ridley Scott’s BLADE RUNNER (although rumours that the […]
DOM: Mulholland Drive (Lynch, US, 2001)
When Derek Malcolm chose his accompanying list in The Guardian, his two most recent films were Zhang Yimou’s “Raise The Red Lantern” (which would easily made my list, but I […]
Friday Five: The Rise of the Machines
I get slightly nervous when the toaster looks at me in a strange way, so I was pleased when Asimov came up with his rules for robots. I think that […]
CHRIS: Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Cameron, US, 1991)
Well, he said he’d be back. It’s a portentous title to a portentous film by the world’s most portentous film-maker, but it is teeth-rattling fun from the end to the […]
Dirk’s Five – Karloff the Uncanny
Calling all horror fans (and thanks to Dom for alerting me to this one): after his heavily US-centric series last year, last night Mark Gatiss returned to the history of […]
The Dirk Malcolm Alternative 