FEATURE – BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S, THE ORIGINAL BREAKFAST CLUB
As fresh today as when Holly Golightly stood on Fifth Avenue with her coffee and Danish in hand, Breakfast At Tiffany’s (1961), the forerunner to today’s [...]
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Army of Shadows (1969)
Director Jean-Pierre Melville’s controversial World War II drama Army of Shadows (1969), stars Lino Ventura as Philippe Gerbier the head of a small French [...]
FEATURE – FAUST, THE DEVIL’S IN THE DETAIL
Peter Cushing may well have had legendary German filmmaker F. W. Murnau’s Faust (1926) in mind, when he said that he found a creaking door and half open coffin as [...]
Vito (2011)
Some films though hard to watch, make essential, enlightening viewing. Vito, the biographic documentary by director Jeffrey Schwarz about the American film journalist [...]
The Car (1977)
The Car, director Elliot Silverstein’s ‘cult horror’ (and I use both words in their loosest sense), starring James Brolin, Kathleen Lloyd, John Marley and Ronny [...]
FEATURE – MARILYN MONROE, A CANDLE IN THE WIND!
“We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.” Marilyn Monroe was a woman who clearly practised what she preached. Not only one of [...]
Comedown (2012)
Comedown (2012), the indi-Brit horror from director Menhaj Huda starring Jacob Anderson, Sophie Stuckey and Geoff Bell, is reminiscent (one imagines) of a bad [...]
The Comeback (1978)
The Comeback is a delightfully grimy and atmospheric experience. One of the last films by Britain’s ‘King of Sleaze’ Pete Walker – only Home Before [...]
FEATURE – ESCAPE ARTIST, THE LIFE OF DOUGLAS SIRK
“This, anyhow, is what enchants me about Sirk: this delirious mixture of medieval and modern, sentimentality and subtlety, tame compositions and frenzied [...]
FEATURE – CARY GRANT, MR METROSEXUAL
If one man epitomised cinema’s idea of sophistication, it was surely Cary Grant; it could be said Grant invented metrosexuality before modern day stars like George [...]
FEATURE – THE GANG’S ALL HERE
World War II was a buoyant time for the cinema industry, particularly in America. In order to forget the horrors which were ripping the world apart audiences flocked in their [...]
Inseparable (2011)
Sometimes you really have to question the aim of a film. Inseparable (2011), written and directed by Dayyan Eng and starring Kevin Spacey, Daniel Wu and Beibi Gong, is a case [...]
