Before the advent of internet and DVD extras there was the ‘film tie-in’ to get the average fan-boy excited about the latest science fiction offering. They are still available for […]
A personal list of films since 1977 will inevitably reflect some of the cultural and sociological concerns of the period. I beginning to realise that there is a risk that […]
Observant readers, and I know that there is at least one, will have noticed that my latest selections for the Dirk Malcolm list of films since STAR WARS, have come […]
One of the repeated motifs of this internationally celebrated film, is that of Tangram – a chinese shape puzzle that can be rearranged to form different pictures – this is […]
Dirk had very little interest in real sport when I was growing up. I couldn’t see the appeal of grown men kicking a bag of wind from one end of […]
There’s something about children killing children that remains one of the few remaining universal taboos. There is a sense of collective moral panic whenever there is a new case, whether […]
“What a load of rubbish! Kim Basinger didn’t even get her tits out!” – a displeased cinemagoer, Wigan, Oct 1997 It is still great when you get a buzz about […]
During my brief tenure at the Edge Hill College film society, I started a magazine of ‘Film and Media’ to promote the society and to fill the void left by […]
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