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Film Review: The Third Man

10th June 2021 Going Postal 0

The Third Man is a wonderfully evocative, innovative, and fascinating film, directed by Carol Reed with the screenplay by Graham Greene, set in the dystopian ruins and chaos of immediate post-WW2 Vienna, which at that [more…]

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Ein, Zwei, DIE!

18th May 2021 Going Postal 0

After I reviewed the terrible House on Cemetery Hill, I perused the comments which, apparently, no one reads and spotted a few suggestions for the category of worst films ever made. Of the films put [more…]

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Flight of the Navigator

26th April 2021 Going Postal 0

Since Tina and I ditched the TV license last year, we’ve been using the money we saved to amass films and TV from times gone by. You know, back in the days when TV and [more…]

19th Century

Film Review: Far From The Madding Crowd

31st March 2021 Going Postal 0

John Schlesinger’s 1967 adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s 1874 novel Far from the Madding Crowd should be a universally recognized cinema classic. Sadly, although it received generally positive reviews and did well in England, today it [more…]

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Film Review : Breakfast at Tiffany’s

9th March 2021 Going Postal 0

Blake Edwards’ 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany’s — loosely based on Truman Capote’s 1958 novella of the same name — was a showcase for Audrey Hepburn in her acting prime. (Ironically, Capote championed giving the [more…]

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Film Review: The Tourist

28th January 2021 Going Postal 0

It all started, they say, when he met a woman……….. Angeline Jolie plays Elise, the extraordinary and captivating girlfriend of Alexander Pearce, a criminal who has sensibly disappeared after embezzling $2 billion from a mobster. [more…]

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Film Review: The Usual Suspects

18th January 2021 Going Postal 0

In the final moments of the classic film Casablanca, at the airport, Rick, an American refugee, and sympathizer of the underground resistance to the Nazi movement, has just shot and killed Major Strasser of the [more…]

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Move Over Plan 9, You’ve Lost Your Status

1st January 2021 Going Postal 0

About a week before Halloween, we popped into Tesco to pick up some of the stuff we might need for the week ahead but also a few Halloween goodies, including sweets for trick or treaters [more…]

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The Ultimate Christmas Movie

25th December 2020 Going Postal 0

Let’s face it, Puffins. For those of you either still tied to the TV license or have a predilection towards masochism, the broadcasters are going to throw a bucket of cheesy as arse Christmas movies [more…]

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