Tag: 1979

A review of possibly the most treasured film of the year – personally speaking – was intended to close the chapter that is 1979 in…

Arthur Hiller’s 1979 cult classic, The In-laws, is in the truest sense of the word, a joyride, emphasis being on ‘ride’. What starts off with a…

This is part of a religion in film series, concerning spirituality in its many forms through the cinematic lens. In this article I will be…

If you haven’t seen Apocalypse Now, you simply haven’t lived. I mean it, it’s truly one of those must-see films, a true classic. This doesn’t…

Horror films in 1979 – hey maybe films of all genres to some degree – were all about style. Each of the films listed here…

Hayao Miyazaki is one of the greatest directors in the history of cinema. His contributions to animation have been essential for the evolution of that…

There’s a smidgen of satire in the opening of The Marriage of Maria Braun, as the title character is in the midst of the title…

“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…