Tag: Movies

My own personal choices for the year. They reflect not just necessarily what I think is the best or essential cinema, but perhaps resonate with…

Listen up. Let me tell you a story. I say ‘story’, well, this is more likely going to be something not resembling a story at…

Running close to Christmas now, too close for comfort, so I have not gift-wrapped these recent movie-related links. That said, they are all worthy of…

My own personal choices for the year. They reflect not just necessarily what I think is the best or essential cinema, but perhaps resonate with…

Super Oscar nerds. Female Director Spotlight shiners. Awards bodies embracing Ex Machina. Yet another entertaining TV podcast. How can I not be excited about my…

I have a vivid memory as a child browsing the collection of Star Wars figures in a store, and the new set on display. Part…

So much to see and read and remember. As we look back 30 years, to this very day in fact according to Back to the…

Great films continue to speak to the human condition for decades long after they are initially released, and none begs the connotation, “Now more than…

During the build-up, and now brilliant coverage of, the film events in Telluride, I become engulfed in a paradox of emotions. There is the sheer…

Mention Hollywood epics and one of the first films that comes to mind is Lawrence of Arabia. AFI named it Number One on its “EPICS”…

It sure is nice to find small gems on the big bad internet reminding of those we loved and lost from a long time ago….

So much theory has been written about 2001: A Space Odyssey. For this review, I’m siding with Mr. Kubrick who, when asked to explain the…

I’m going to be cheeky here and link back, firstly, to my own life. Though I don’t want to make this all about me. Right?…