Every decade the British Film Institute publish a curated list of the Greatest Movies of All Time. It is, of course, wrong because everyone has a different list and everyone’s list is right but it’s a lovely exercise. There’s a quote from Guillermo del Toro about these lists and what they do, which speaks viscerally …
Look at them, LOOK AT THEM! That poster is like a singularity of Blue Steel and legendary careers. 1990’s Flatliners is directed by Joel Schumacher, with cinematography from Jan De Bont, foe of all buses. Peter Filardi wrote it who would also write the equally epochal The Craft and the cast are, as you can …
NOTE: Bit of a surprise today. The day’s got away from me and the most recent thing I watched to catch up on it was the excellent new edition of Event Horizon. Turns out, I already wrote a long-form piece about the movie and so, with a slight tweak, but on brand, here it is. …
I remember the TMNT comics, I played the TMNT RPG (The Cyberduck Systems Model D800, the Alihens and the PreDucktor all featured) but somehow I never saw the movie. This week, I changed that. It was a good choice. You probably know the basis but just in case; four baby turtles thrown into a New …
The Outfit is Graham Moore’s directorial debut and it does not show at All. Scripted by Moore and Jonathan McClain, The film, all set inside Leonard Burling (Mark Rylance)’s Chicago tailor’s shop is as precise and methodical as Burling. Just as ruthless too. Burling is a polite, gentle man with a sparky assistant and the …
ME?! Let the 25th anniversary of the best floppy disk chunky laptop love story being released into cinemas go by unremarked?! GOOD GRIEF! It’s been twenty five years since Cereal Killer, Lord Nikon and some other characters rollerbladed into our hearts through our landlines. In that time Angelina Jolie has become the biggest movie star on …
Serendipity, like Ayn Rand, is a hell of a drug,just one that doesn’t mutter something about the free market while throwing you down a well. Instead, it means that a brace of horror movies that were already good have been made better by the frankly terrifying world circumstances in which they’ve been released. First we …
…I didn’t know they made movies based on my inner wish list?! Secret things! UFOs! ONLY THE SMALL STAFF OF A LOCAL RADIO STATION CAN SAVE US! This is definitely Something Good, and it’s on Amazon Prime now. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEiwpCJqMM0]
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49YeFsx1rIw] I’m experimenting with a second screen at the moment. It’s my iPad mini-4 but having something changing and visually pleasing on there seems to be helping. This, found by the mighty Chloë Yates, is a five hour, iPhone-shot tour of Russia’s Hermitage Museum. It’s astounding and definitely something good. See you on Monday …
Well, we’re off to the polls, again. As is always the case right now, it’s not so much an honor to participate in democracy as it is a horrific, exhausted last stand. Or to put it another way, right now it seems like we are all Captain America, and none of us are especially sure …