One important factor marks Raymond Lemorne from THE VANISHING as a psychotic wierdo: a neatly trimmed beard. Neat beards are the mark of strangeness. If you need any proof that […]

Dom – Dirk rightly attributes the power of 12 ANGRY MEN to the powerful performances from the ensemble cast, however it is the setting of the Jury room that intensifies […]

Following DUCK SOUP, we have some choice cuts from The Marx Brothers. Dom-Dirk has provided what he considers to be the best 4 Marx moments and 1 duff one. HOORAY! […]

This week, there was a faux-heated debate in THE GUARDIAN between two fathers over the scares in the recent series of Dr Who, suggesting that they are now too frightening […]

Back in 1982, when THE THING was released, the appearance of a desk top computer was something really special. The home computing boom hadn’t really started, so we were gleefully […]

“There are over 300 bank robberies in Boston every year. Most of these professionals live in a 1-square-mile neighborhood called Charlestown.” Dirk watched THE TOWN (2010) over the weekend, Ben Affleck‘s […]

Sorry that this is a bit later than usual. Dirk was enjoying the crooning delights of the nation’s favourite bearded-labrador, Guy Garvey and Elbow on Friday, in an intimate gathering […]

This year marks the centenary of Bernard Herrmann, cinema’s foremost composer of soundtracks, and the collaborator with some of Dirk’s favourite auteurs, Welles, Scorsese, Hitchcock and Harryhaussen. This list is […]