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Film Review : The Leopard

21st October 2024 Going Postal 2034 Comments

Luchino Visconti’s masterpiece is his 1963 historical epic The Leopard (Il Gattopardo, which – pendant alert – actually refers to a smaller spotted wild cat, the serval – the heraldic animal of the Princes of [more…]

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Totally NOT Star Wars, No sirree : Starcrash – The Movie…….

29th April 2024 Going Postal 2201 Comments

It’s the late 1970s, and just hitting the big screen is a space opera in which a lightsabre-wielding smuggler embarks on a royal rescue mission, a talking droid sidekick provides comic relief, and a classically [more…]

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P’tang yang Kipperbang

28th December 2023 rattuscatchus 2403 Comments

This was one of the earliest films shown on Channel 4. It was broadcast on the channel’s 2nd evening on 3rd November 1982 as part of the “First Love” series – please bear with me! [more…]

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Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)

18th December 2023 Going Postal 2184 Comments

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 2021 Comments

  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 2116 Comments

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 2492 Comments

“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 2639 Comments

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 2696 Comments

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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