Category: Year in Film

“It was never easy for me, I was born a poor black child”, spoken by the very white Steve Martin as his iconic character Navin…

Norman Jewison’s Al Pacino classic American legal dramedy …And Justice for All (1979) is one of my all-time favorite films. Written by the then-married screenwriters…

Growing up as a kid my stepdad introduced me to a range of films which he had watched as a child growing up in the…

Big things have small beginnings. If there is cinematic proof to that statement, then one could go no further than Mad Max. Consider the most…

‘Coming of Age’ like any other genre in cinema, is pretty diverse. On the one hand, it is populated with cheesy high-school dramas, with stock…

It’s very difficult not to watch this movie without thinking: “What the fuck Woody?”. For those that have seen this film before, you know what…

The conventional wisdom on James Bond history is that the Roger Moore era distinguished itself from the Sean Connery era by being far more tongue…

For a brief time in American cinema, the auteur reigned. No project was too epic in scale, no subject was off-limits, money was readily available…

How very apt it is that we arrive at Filmotomy Podcast Episode 79, to discuss the latest of our Rewind series – the year 1979….

Recognising a piece of cinema which taps into its time and era with a narrative perfectly relevant and timely is something the Academy Awards do…

I was probably 10 or 11 years old when I first had an interaction with the Alien franchise. I was at my Dad’s house when…

This is a look back at “10“, a film by Blake Edwards, that I also like to consider: “Julie Andrews is way too good to…

It may be 40 years since the release of Hal Ashby’s Being There, but somehow the film is even more relevant now. Especially with the…

It’s probably contrarian enough to defend a movie like 1941 as a good film, but it may be futile to try to convince people it’s…