DOM: Letter From An Unknown Woman (Ophuls, US, 1948)
This is the reason I dedicated this list to Leslie Halliwell, his books have been much more than just an inspiration to me, so it is such a shame that […]
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CHRIS: Toy Story 2 (Lassester,Unkrich, Brannon, US, 1999)
The TOY STORY trilogy is probably the most successful trilogy in film history. Successful in the sense of its financial results at the box office and toy shops, but also […]
2010 in review
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog […]
DOM: The Red Shoes (Powell & Pressburger, UK, 1948)
In a way I was quite surprised that when Derek Malcolm chose his favourite Michael Powell film he chose The Life & Death Of Colonel Blimp (the first classic film […]
DOM: Christmas Story (Clark, US, 1983)
When Bob Clark died a couple of years ago, it seemed all press concentrated on his previous film to this, Porkys, or his other Christmas movie, Black Christmas, but I […]
DOM: Goldfinger (Hamilton, UK, 1964)
The definitive action film. The third in the highly successful Eon productions James Bond film series (the first two were Dr. No and From Russia With Love, both superb, but […]
CHRIS: El Lobo (The Wolf) (Coutois, Spain, 2004)
“You can use all of your bullets except for this one. This one… is for Lobo.” November’s selection for the Dirk Malcolm’s Film Club was this gripping political thriller based […]
CHRIS: Unforgiven (Eastwood, US, 1992)
“Deserve doesn’t come into it.” The best westerns are myths that tell a story about the time that they were written. The certainties that were present in the genre during […]
CHRIS: Scanners (Cronenberg, Canada, 1981)
SCANNERS was written and directed by Cronenberg and concerns a group of people who have intense telepathic and telekinetic powers who are caught in the middle of an industrial espionage […]
CHRIS: Short Cuts (Altman,US, 1993)
I am presently reading BEGINNERS (2009) by Raymond Carver. It is a reissue of his collection of short stories WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT LOVE (1981) which […]
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