Woodython Five (12): Woody’s Round-Up!
I’m not really known as a ‘completer finisher’, I’m more of an ‘ideas man’, who throws random thoughts into the ring in the hope that one eventually takes hold and […]
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Dirk’s Five: Tarantinofornication
“To Tarantino” is to rip off wholesale, because you have no ideas yourself, and pretend it’s a homage. “Toshiya Fujita got Tarantinoed.” UrbanDicitonary.com Writing a critique of post-Star Wars cinema, […]
CHRIS: True Romance (Scott, US, 1993)
” When my friends from that time see TRUE ROMANCE, they get melancholy; it brings back a certain time for us. It was weird when I first saw the movie […]
Starburst Memories: “A morbid curiosity” The Woody Allen Biographers
There is a conventional interpretation of the life and career of Woody Allen. It goes something like this, he was good, then he had a fall, and the critics have […]
Dirk’s Five: Andie MacDowell, an appreciation
Rosalie Anderson ‘Andie’ Macdowell, actress, model and mother who is recipient of the prodigeous Goldene Kamera (the Germans adored her performance as Dorothy Winters, alongside the divine John Travolta in […]
Starburst Memories: Jim Henson, The Works
One of the most well-thumbed tomes in the Dirk archive is Jim Henson, The Works. A hagiography from 1993 produced by Jim Henson Productions to celebrate the creativity of their […]
Dirking About … Versatile Blogger Award Nomination
We have had an award nomination from BlackisWhite blog! Its an honour that requires a couple of chores to fulfil their rules. I’m not complaining, but I am instinctively opposed […]
Woodython Five (11) – For Hire
“…it seemed to me like a very standard film persona for a comedian. Someone who is a physical coward, who lusts after women, who is good hearted but ineffectual and […]
Dirking about … The best posts of 2013
We three Dirks of Bolton are, one in a taxi, one in a car, one on a scooter (blowing his hooter) have had an epiphany. Sometimes it’s a struggle to […]
Dirk’s Five – Muppets
“It’s time to put on make up, it’s time to dress up right” The Muppets are a source of endless nostalgic romance here at Dirk Towers. I have a reasonable […]
The Dirk Malcolm Alternative 