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…]
Forgive me, Puffins. I know he’s French. And an Actor. But I’d like to talk about Alain Delon’s face for a minute. In truth, it’s hard not to. Certainly, in the early years of his [more…]
We play a game at work with girls’ heights. There is a reason for this. Colleagues are going to build a tunnel to the shop next door and steal their toys. To confuse the local [more…]
The ‘Flower Moon’ is the term the Osage Indians of Oklahoma use to describe that time of year with a full moon in May when the plains around them suddenly burst forth in millions of [more…]
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…]
No review of Scoop, now available on Netflix, is likely to spoil the plot. The world and his country cousin can recall the 2019 Orphans’ Away Day trainwreck when BBC Newsnight’s Emily Maitlis scooped an [more…]
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…]
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…]
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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