20th Century
Film Review: Bridge Over The River Kwai
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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Planet Lockdown Film is coming on Jan 15th!
Short Trailer to the international documentary PLANET LOCKDOWN. WHERE ARE WE? Full release in multiple languages January 15th: PlanetLockdownFilm.com Subscribe to the email list for updates on the film and interviews: https://planetlockdownfilm.com/lists/?p=subscribe Watch more full [more…]
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Joyeux Noël – The Film & The Reality
“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
“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
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!
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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Move Over Plan 9, You’ve Lost Your Status
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
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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A Christmas Movie that reflects 2020
As a very strange Christmas swings around, we’ll soon start to see a plethora of Yuletide films appear on television. From the great and the good (films like The Bishop’s Wife and It’s a Wonderful [more…]