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Film Review: Bridge Over The River Kwai

21st June 2022 Going Postal 0

  David Lean’s The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) is not just a great film, it is a nearly perfect one. Even better, it was recognised as such from the start by virtually everyone. [more…]

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Joyeux Noël – The Film & The Reality

25th December 2021 Going Postal 0

“What would happen, I wonder, if the armies suddenly and simultaneously went on strike and said some other method must be found of settling the dispute ? ”  — Winston Churchill to his wife, Clementine, [more…]

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Film Review: Big Trouble in Little China

15th June 2021 Columba Palumbus 0

“Big Trouble in Little China” by warpafx is licensed under CC BY 2.0 As a director, John Carpenter is very much hit and miss when it comes to critical acclaim and box office success. For [more…]

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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…]

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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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