I have been working my way through Netflix while I am on the six-month free trial that comes with Virgin Media. The selection on Netflix comes in for a lot of criticism because it is not a place where you will find loads of recent blockbusters (about the only film on there that is both […]
Entries Tagged as 'Films'
Eight Psychopaths
August 7th, 2013 · Comments Off on Eight Psychopaths · Life, Music
A good day yesterday. The postman delivered an eagerly-awaited package containing the DVD of Seven Psychopaths, and the CD boxset of Doctor Feelgood (1974-77 the Wilko years). Now I know that Wilko is not a psychopath, but back in the early 70’s his performances certainly gave a good impression of one. Good enough to justify […]
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For the hard of hearing
January 22nd, 2013 · Comments Off on For the hard of hearing · Life
The other day I was going through the EPG on the TV and saw that Arthur Penn’s classic Bonnie & Clyde was being shown in the small hours on one of the ITV channels so I set the box up to record it. Tonight I decided to watch it. I hadn’t seen it since I […]
Nazis at the centre of the Earth
August 23rd, 2012 · Comments Off on Nazis at the centre of the Earth · Life
When I saw a film called Nazis at the Centre of the Earth listed on the EPG I couldn’t resist it. The EPG promised subterranean robot zombies and the film delivered that, even if it couldn’t deliver decent acting, writing or special effects. Of course it could only be The Asylum that is responsible for […]
Time travel trouble trumped
August 2nd, 2012 · 1 Comment · Life
Well I watched the sequel to Les Visiteurs tonight. It looks like the filmmakers also spotted the plot hole I wrote about yesterday and used it as the basis for a second film: Les Couloirs du Temps: Les Visiteurs II. Snappy title eh? I’ll put a break here in case anybody doesn’t want spoilers.
Time travel trouble
August 2nd, 2012 · Comments Off on Time travel trouble · Life
I watched Les Visiteurs on DVD this evening, in-between the boxing, football, tennis and table tennis. It has been a while since I first saw it, which was on VHS and a much smaller screen. Last time round I enjoyed it but was a bit underwhelmed, possibly because I was expecting s much from it, […]
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Alerte générale!
July 30th, 2012 · Comments Off on Alerte générale! · Life
The fourth Taxi film (T4XI) came out 5 years ago but I have only just seen it. I thought the first film was brilliant and only recently re-watched all of the first three films but I had been put off seeing the fourth one. A large part of the hesitatance was that Taxi 2 was […]
Battle Royale
July 23rd, 2012 · 3 Comments · Life
One thing leads to another. One night last week I watched Kill Bill – both parts. Watching that, and particularly the performance of Chiaki Kuriyama, led me to re-watch Battle Royale which she was in, and which led to Tarantino casting her in Kill Bill. It really is a remarkable film: Lord of the Flies […]
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New York 1977
July 18th, 2012 · Comments Off on New York 1977 · Life
Tonight I treated myself to a New York 1977 double-bill of films. I started with Saturday Night Fever which I recorded when it was on the Film 4 channel ther other night, and then continued with the DVD of Summer of Sam. Two quite different films about the same place at the same time. I […]
They don’t make ’em like that any more
June 10th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Life
This weekend I decided to watch some of the movies I had recorded on the V+ box ages ago and therefore enjoyed a Don Siegel double-bill of Coogan’s Bluff and Charley Varrick. I would have enjoyed it even more if they had not been recorded from ITV4 with its endless advert breaks, but you can’t […]
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