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A View From The Greenhouse (ish); The Rise of The Islamist “Talking Head”

19th December 2023 Colin Cross 0

Firstly Postaliers, allow me to apologise for not supplying the usual bi-weekly fix of ramblings and inanities on the 5th of December. Life got in the way a bit, but I’m back (for the foreseeable), [more…]

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Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)

18th December 2023 Going Postal 0

Two young men, in a souped-up old Chevy, travel across the USA, making what money they can by betting on the drag races they enter. Along the way they’re joined by a lost hippie girl, [more…]

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Kundun (1998)

11th December 2023 Going Postal 0

  I do like a good biographical film, they often portray important and fascinating figures, set in exotic locations around the world, giving snap shots of the turning points in civilization. Showing what has been [more…]

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Zatoichi (2003)

20th November 2023 Going Postal 0

Hands up who wants to watch a tap dancing, comedy, Samurai flick? No? Well, you should do. Zatoichi is such a breath of fresh air in the action genre that I came away with a [more…]

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The Truman Show (1998)

13th November 2023 Going Postal 0

“All the worlds a stage, and all the men and women merely players”, so wrote Shakespeare, and never could these words be better applied than to The Truman Show. Released in 1998, the film is [more…]

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The Birds (1963)

16th October 2023 Going Postal 0

Not the most obvious choice to start with when delving into the Hitchcock canon, he did better films undoubtedly, but The Birds is just a great example of pure story telling. We are not weighed [more…]

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F for Fake (1973)

9th October 2023 Going Postal 0

What is art if not a forgery of the real world. A reflection of what we see in our lives, and then try to convey to others, a form of primeval communication. This is the [more…]

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Last Night Of The Proms 2023 – A Puffin’s eye view

8th October 2023 Going Postal 0

This particular night has been a very long time coming; pretty much forty years to be precise. I remember first watching the Last Night as a yoof and taking in the spectacle on TV in [more…]

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Grosse Point Blank (1997)

28th September 2023 Going Postal 0

Made in 1997, by director George Armitage. Grosse Point Blank tracks the story of our hero, Martin Blank (John Cusack), a professional killer, who’s forced into one last job after an unfortunate event with a [more…]

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