Weren’t the sixties great. Thunderbirds was a children’s TV series forged in the white heat of technology and which reflected the optimism of the time that scientists and engineers could solve all our problems. Thunderbirds Are GO is the first of two feature film spinoffs from the series and it has all the same...
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Weren’t the seventies a great decade. Granted, it was a decade in which all ideas of taste went AWOL, but on the other hand if it hadn’t been for the bad TV that came from the seventies, no-one would have made a film as much fun as Charlie’s Angels. And this is one fun...
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This is an incredibly intense film in which a neglected teenage boy – Stevie (Cameron Van Hoy) finds his absent mother’s handgun and, dragging along his girlfriend, Rocky (Mischa Barton), holds up a bank. Suddenly they’re famous. We’re very much into Natural Born Killers territory here with the film trying to take a look...
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Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson take the two losers from Bottom (Ritchie and Eddie, although their surnames are changed for this film) and put them in charge of the sleaziest hotel in England. What then follows is 90 minutes of violent slapstick comedy as the pair letch, lie and steal their way from one...
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The first, and best, of the Wallace and Gromit shorts.
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Wow. The 1931 Tod Browning classic with a whole new score written by Philip Glass. I saw this in Het Muziektheater in Amsterdam with the score performed live by Philip Glass and the Kronos Quartet and it blew me away. First of all, the film. This is a great interpretation of the Dracula story...
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This is another of Britain’s notorious video nasties (although now granted an “18″ certificate) and it is a hard going film. The narration at the start, the use of an ensemble of totally unknown actors and the pseudo-documentary style of filming give it a feeling of being a crime reconstruction rather than a piece...
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