Dirk’s Five – Ray Harryhausen Creature Preacher
So, farewell then Ray Harryhaussen, Your stop motion effects were inspiring. It’s been touch and go, touch and go, Touch and go, touch and go, For ages. Rest in Peace. […]
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CHRIS: The Dungeon Masters (McAlester, US, 2008)
For us, the movie came down to an essential question about creativity. Because if you’re an adult in America and you get paid to be creative, people look at you […]
Woodython Five (2): Eurotrash
The Woodython continues. In 2013 we are watching the complete films of Woody Allen and neatly packaging them into a series of ten or more themed lists. This is the […]
Dirk’s Five – The Fab Four Five (Part Two) The Solo Years
The Beatles’ Solo Years. After my initial thought of giving 4 bad films and one good one, I decided to concentrate on the only important Beatle in film, George Harrison. […]
Starburst Memories: Blitz – Review of the Eighties
You may have missed the news, but last month Saint Margaret Hilda Thatcher passed away and it would be remiss of us to allow this event to go un-noticed. She […]
Dirk’s Five – The Fab Four Five (Part One)
The Beatles on celluloid shows them maturing and disintegrating before our eyes. The movies helped to define the band, the brand and the individual characters: John the sharp and witty […]
DOM: A Hard Day’s Night (Lester, UK, 1964)
When I first got into The Beatles in early ’85 I found out they had made four films (A Hard Day’s Night, Help!, Magical Mystery Tour and Let It Be) […]
Dirk’s Five – Moff Toykin
Can it really be two years since I got my first Moff Tarkin action figure? If you remember, Dirk has always had a fascination with this figure; despite having false-memories […]
STARBURST MEMORIES: Down and Dirty Pictures by Peter Biskind (2004)
“We don’t want to grow up and be another Walt Disney.” – Bob Weinstein, 1989 In the April 2013 edition of Sight and Sound, Mark Cousins extends a metaphor of […]
CHRIS: Far From Heaven (Haynes, US, 2002)
“I can’t shoot straight anymore.” Ron Kirby (Rock Hudson) – All that Heaven Allows (1955) A few years ago there was a sudden revival of interest in 1950s America thanks […]
The Dirk Malcolm Alternative 