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 […]
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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 […]
Starburst Memories: Gratuitous Fantasy Females Sequel
In a shameless attempt to boost our hits, Dirk Malcolm’s World of Film is not proud to revive one of the regular features from Starburst magazine. People come here in […]
Starburst Memories: HMV RIP?
Since the announcement that HMV, the music, video and games retailer that’s been an institution on the British high street since the 1920s, has gone into administration, followed by the […]
Starburst Memories: Dread & Superficiality: Woody Allen as a Comic Strip by Stuart Hample
This handsome book is a collection of the ‘Inside Woody Allen’ cartoon strips that were syndicated daily between 1976 – 1984. It was endorsed by Woody and he provided jokes […]
Starburst Memories: Woody Allen: A Documentary
This keenly awaited documentary offers to tell you “everything you wanted to know about Woody, but were afraid to ask” is now available on blu-ray and DVD after a […]
STARBURST MEMORIES: Loving the ALIEN?
Thanks to red wine and ebay, a fatal combination, I have been steadily rebuilding my collection of Starburst Magazines from the late 70s and early 80s. It has been striking […]
Starburst Memories: The Sight & Sound Greatest Films Poll
Every decade, SIGHT & SOUND, the BFI’s house magazine, conducts a poll of the greatest films ever made according to its specially selected group of critics. Dom-Dirk reviews his archive […]
STARBURST MEMORIES – Rob Reiner’s EMPIRE ‘Classic Scenes’
To mark ‘Dirk on Tap’ I went in to the archives to retrieve my carefully bound collection of ‘Classic Scenes’ from Empire Magazine (1989 – 2002). I don’t think that […]
STARBURST MEMORIES: The Book of Alien by Paul Scanlon and Michael Gross
Before the advent of internet and DVD extras there was the ‘film tie-in’ to get the average fan-boy excited about the latest science fiction offering. They are still available for […]
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