Tag: British cinema
Blimey! Here's 100 British Flicks That Are The Dog's Bollocks – IX
Cor blimey! We’ve reached the penultimate part of our British film series already? And it is another impressive line-up. We have not one, but two,…
Blimey! Here's 100 British Flicks That Are The Dog's Bollocks – VIII
My oh my, what a mixture of British filmmaking talent on display in part eight. Mr Shakespeare shows up once again, banging his tragic love…
Blimey! Here's 100 British Flicks That Are The Dog's Bollocks – VII
So what do the next seven British films have in store for us? The perverts and the pits make themselves heard. Brenda Blethyn and Timothy…
Blimey! Here's 100 British Flicks That Are The Dog's Bollocks – VI
As we dive into the second half of this 100 British flicks, I wondered how many of you have got this far, and are still…
Blimey! Here's 100 British Flicks That Are The Dog's Bollocks – V
Oh how very British of us. To want to sing in our own solitude. To want to participate in a televised game show. To not…
Blimey! Here's 100 British Flicks That Are The Dog's Bollocks – IV
An eclectic mix of British cinema coming your way. Music influenced by Belle and Sebastian. Kid gangsters, and adult, kind of. There’s heartache in rural…
Blimey! Here's 100 British Flicks That Are The Dog's Bollocks – III
Hold your horses. We have our own civil war in Great Britain, to rival any of yours. Between the Southern Fairies and the Northern Monkeys….
British Cinema: Brief Encounter
David Lean is probably most famous for his legendary epics like Lawrence of Arabia, which is why I was so intrigued to watch his 1945…
Blimey! Here's 100 British Flicks That Are The Dog's Bollocks – II
Where thou, a rose. A rose, thateth smells as sweet. By the name of, erm. A rose that hast, another name wonst smell as sweet….
Blimey! Here's 100 British Flicks That Are The Dog's Bollocks – I
Cup of tea? A bun? Fish and chips for tea? Depends how much dough you have in your sky rocket. Why not go to the…
Filmotomy Podcast Episode 38: What Is British Cinema?
The British are coming in the latest podcast from Filmotomy. The many compounds of the UK film industry is examined by two Brits, Bianca Garner…
Chemistry With Julie Walters and Michael Caine: Educating Rita (1983) Review
Julie Walters and Michael Caine. I mean, we talk about the on-screen chemistry between acting folk, likely when it is either not meant to be,…
Tim Roth Directs The War Zone With Brutal Truth
*** SOME SPOILERS *** In the opening scenes of the 1999 bare-bones British drama The War Zone, some effort is made to establish what might…
Filmotomy Podcast Episode 17 – BAFTA Preview
Welcome to another ensemble podcast. This week we squeeze in some BAFTA talk ahead of the awards announcement. Robin, Al, Bianca, and Rob are joined…
