CHRIS: Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Cameron, US, 1991)
Well, he said he’d be back. It’s a portentous title to a portentous film by the world’s most portentous film-maker, but it is teeth-rattling fun from the end to the […]
Well, he said he’d be back. It’s a portentous title to a portentous film by the world’s most portentous film-maker, but it is teeth-rattling fun from the end to the […]
“You wanna know my story babe? It’s easy. This is the generation that grew up and forgot to lead their lives. They were so busy watching my endless media. Its […]
There are several good reasons to stay with the closing credits of AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF …:. There’s the dreamy, doo wap version of BLUE MOON by The Marcels, a couple […]
Sigh. If you would have asked me 30 years ago, “name your favourite film, go on, what is it?”. I would have snapped back the prompt response: “Excalibur. Its brilliant.” […]
Humphrey Jennings was called “The only true poet of the English cinema” by Lindsay Anderson, something that could be thought of as true, but Jennings has fallen out of favour […]
In a way I feel it quite a shock that it has taken me so long to get to one of the most revered of film directors, Stanley J. Kubrick. […]
Von Trier is a film maker who divides opinion. The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw, Derek’s replacement, considers him a hoaxer. Variety’s Todd McCarthy was one of the many critics who were […]
In a way I was quite surprised that when Derek Malcolm chose his favourite Michael Powell film he chose The Life & Death Of Colonel Blimp (the first classic film […]
The definitive action film. The third in the highly successful Eon productions James Bond film series (the first two were Dr. No and From Russia With Love, both superb, but […]
“Revolutions are contagious.” Every time I watch this film, something stirs deep within me, an anger, but also a sense of pride, mixed with an unsettling frustration that is hard […]