Starburst Memories: Disney to make Myhr Rho spin-off
Since Disney purchased the rights to Star Wars and announced that it will be developing more films, there have been daily press releases about how the franchise will develop and […]
Monthly Archives: September 2013
Dirk’s Five – Hustlers, Grifters, Shills and Marks
Illusion and cinema go together like Paul Daniels and Debbie McGee. From the earliest moments in the history of cinema, film-makers have used the medium to perform trickery. This association […]
CHRIS: House of Games (Mamet, US, 1987)
“It’s called the confidence game. Why? Because you give me your confidence? No, because I give you mine.” Mike David Mamet was already an established Broadway dramatist and Hollywood […]
Starburst Memories: Woody flow-chart
Due to a number of reasons, ‘Dirking about’ time has been hard to find over the past couple of weeks. There are number of posts in the pipeline, when I […]
CHRIS: Die Blechtrommel (The Tin Drum) (Schlondorff, West Germany, Yugoslavia, Poland, France, 1979)
Oskar Matzerath is the boy who refuses to grow older. A child of the petite bourgeois in Danzig during the rise of Nazism, he throws himself down the cellar steps, […]
The Dirk Malcolm Alternative 