Starburst Memories: She knows you know
Part of my nostalgic affection for GREASE (1978) is related to the comedy version of You’re The One That I Want by Hylda Baker and Arthur Mullard. He was a […]
Category Archives: Starburst Memories
Dirk’s Five: Odeon Memories
In a mash up of our usual features, this is a Starburst Memory that meets the Dirk’s Five. The Odeon in Bolton held a very special space in the heart […]
Starburst Memories: The Face of 1994 – Christian Slater
All I want to do is graduate from high school, go to Europe, marry Christian Slater, and die. – Buffy in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992) “Christian Slater was pretty […]
Starburst Memories: A Pictorial History of Horror by Denis Gifford
Following the B-Movie’s Film School, I have been on the hunt for further examples of genuine second features (rather than those films that embody the ‘spirit of the Bs’). As […]
Starburst Memories: PROP 6 – “You Talking To Me?”
I’ve written before about my former life as the co-editor of PROP magazine. I was reminded of an article in PROP issue 6 about TAXI DRIVER (1975) while compiling the […]
Starburst Memories: Robert Mitchum “Calypso – is like so…”
The OED defines “completist” as “An obsessive (and often indiscriminate) collector”. The key word here is “indiscriminate”. I have amassed some crap in my time. The gap in my Bowie […]
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 […]
Starburst Memories: How To Write Groundhog Day by Danny Rubin
The rumor is that I wrote Groundhog Day very quickly. That is entirely true, if you don’t count most of it. ‘How To Write Groundhog Day’ by Danny Rubin is […]
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 […]
Starburst Memories: Revenge of the Jedi
Dom Dirk has added RETURN OF THE JEDI (1983) to his alternative 100, so I have delved into the archive at Dirk Towers to explore some of the points that he […]
The Dirk Malcolm Alternative 