DOM: Bad Day At Black Rock (Sturges, US, 1955)
In July 2012, one of the last of the last, Ernest Borgnine died aged 95, he was one of the great character actors of the 50s who came to prominence […]
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Starburst Memories: The Sight & Sound Greatest Films Poll
Every decade, SIGHT & SOUND, the BFI’s house magazine, conducts a poll of the greatest films ever made according to its specially selected group of critics. Dom-Dirk reviews his archive […]
Dirk’s Movie Confessions
Dirk is participating in My Film Reviews blogathon to reveal my Movie Confessions. Which classic movie don’t you like/can’t enjoy and why? One of the reasons that I created this […]
Dirk’s Five – Fincher’s Titles
It is hard to be an auteur in modern Hollywood. Ever since Michael Cimono’s HEAVEN’S GATE (1980) destroyed United Artists, studios have been reluctant to allow the sole creative control […]
CHRIS: SE7EN (Fincher, US, 1995)
We have written here before about the how anticipation of film releases has vanished thanks to worldwide release dates. It was Kermode, then the regular critic on Mark Radcliffe and […]
Dirk’s Five – Weekender
As the wannabe mancs FLOWERED UP fade away, its is time for Dirk to get fresh for the weekend. Dom Dirk and Roof Dirk have been holding a splinter-group screening […]
DOM: Weekend (Godard, France, 1967)
I don’t like the French New Wave. There, I’ve said it. When I first started to watch films in a foreign language there was a season of French films on […]
Dirk’s Five – Rockumentary
To mark the end of Dirk on Tap, it is time to Rock! It has been sometime since we have had a contribution from Dom Dirk. This entry has come […]
STARBURST MEMORIES – Rob Reiner’s EMPIRE ‘Classic Scenes’
To mark ‘Dirk on Tap’ I went in to the archives to retrieve my carefully bound collection of ‘Classic Scenes’ from Empire Magazine (1989 – 2002). I don’t think that […]
CHRIS: This is Spinal Tap (Reiner, US, 1984)
Rob Reiner is the multiplex auteur par excellence. His career is marked by fruitful collaborations with the best screenwriters in Hollywood, creating some of the most memorable scenes in the […]
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