Tag: Film
Film Road to Halloween: Ghost Stories (2017)
The road to Halloween is paved with good films. Wherein we countdown to the spirited season with a hundred doses of horror. 95 days to…
Film Road to Halloween: Dracula (1931)
The road to Halloween is paved with good films. Wherein we countdown to the spirited season with a hundred doses of horror. 96 days to…
1979 in Film: Die Ehe der Maria Braun / The Marriage of Maria Braun
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…
1979 in Film: The Jerk
“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…
Film Road to Halloween: The City of the Dead (1960)
The road to Halloween is paved with good films. Wherein we countdown to the spirited season with a hundred doses of horror. 97 days to…
1979 in Film: …And Justice for All
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…
Film Road to Halloween: It Comes At Night (2017)
The road to Halloween is paved with good films. Wherein we countdown to the spirited season with a hundred doses of horror. 98 days to…
Film Road to Halloween: Paranormal Activity (2007)
The road to Halloween is paved with good films. Wherein we countdown to the spirited season with a hundred doses of horror. 99 days to…
1979 in Film: Mad Max
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…
1979 in Film: Breaking Away – Cycling into Adulthood
‘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…
Filmotomy Podcast 80: Desert Island Films
For the 80th edition of the Filmotomy Podcast, this week’s host, Bianca, is stranded on a desert island with Mackenzie, Aaron and Adam – and…
1979 in Film: Moonraker
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…
Filmotomy Podcast 79: 1979 in Film
How very apt it is that we arrive at Filmotomy Podcast Episode 79, to discuss the latest of our Rewind series – the year 1979….
1979 in Film: Alien
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…
