Dirk’s Five – High Faces
Dom-Dirk expressed surprise at the selection of TRAFFIC for my list. It was a conversation by text (its the only sober form of conversation that we have, and even that […]
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Woodython Five (3) – Crimewave
On Friday it was the monthly Dirk club, when Dom-Dirk and I pour us a single goblet of wine each and sit passing judgement on the great and the good. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Dirk’s Five – There Is Nothing Like The Dame
The identity of Deep Throat, the whereabouts of Lord Lucan, the recipe for Findus Crispy Pancakes: no secret of the last hundred years has been more impressively guarded than the […]
The Woodython Five: The Early Funny Films
After watching The Woody Allen Documentary at the beginning of the year I realised how few of his films that I had actually seen. I count myself as something of […]
Dirk’s Five – 2000ad Pitch
DREDD was one of the best genre films of 2012. A film that captures the brutal, darkly comic tone of the original Judge Dredd comic strip has been a long […]
The Dirk Malcolm Alternative 