Posted in Directors, Hollywood, Lists, Stars, The Future of Film on Feb 27th, 2008 No Comments »
Hi, glad you could make it. Take your seats. The fight’s about to start. In the red corner, there’s Mark ‘Lethal’ Lawson. He wrote a piece for The Guardian recently, saying how future generations will regard ours as a golden age of movies, comparable to the 1940s and the 1970s. He cited things like No […]
Posted in British Film, Double-bills, Lists on Feb 21st, 2008 No Comments »
Sometime last century, my then-local fleapit decided to branch out into late-night screenings. This in itself was a novelty in a small town where the weekend’s entertainment usually involved Diamond White and Actual Bodily Harm. So imagine the feverish buzz that resulted when it was learned that these late-nighters would be double-bills, that is two […]
Posted in Lists on Dec 19th, 2007 No Comments »
The decorations are up and the sprouts are on; what better time for a short discussion of festive films?
So, where shall we start: the cheerful Christmas fare, like the evergreen It’s A Wonderful Life or Miracle on 34th Street, perhaps. Alternatively, there’s the anti-Christmas films, like Gremlins, Bad Santa and Tales From The Crypt, where […]