Towards the end of 2019, I reviewed Little Women, a very good film directed by one Greta Gerwig, a filmmaker whose stock has been on since their first solo-directed feature, one I made reference to in my Little Women review, and one I shall now get around to reviewing: Lady Bird. Lady Bird is the genesis point for everything that…
I have, in the past, stated my grief at the passing of Robin Williams. As a performer, he brought great personal joy into millions of lives, whether as an eccentric alien in Mork and Mindy, or in his more serious roles like Dead Poets Society, or indeed Good Will Hunting, he was a unique and…
One of the great things about film is; it can focus on one area of life that would otherwise go unnoticed, or overlooked. At it’s best it can be a mirror to society, in all its many facets, across the spectrum of life. I say this to set the scene somewhat for the topic of…
These past few weeks, the films I’ve looked at have had a rather ‘cult’ feel to them. First there was Little Shop of Horrors which boasts the kind of camp cult features, A Fish Called Wanda provided us with irreverent cult comedy, and now there’s Withnail & I, which is… a lot more difficult to categorise. It’s a…
Well, this last month seemed to go on forever, didn’t it? The world has ground to a halt thanks to the spread of a deadly virus, one that isn’t fictional this time, closing pretty much everything, including cinemas. But still, I have endeavoured to keep the site ticking over with reviews of older films, both…
I solemnly swear that I am up to no good Right, it’s been a while since I’ve done one of these, and what with me staying in and avoiding human contact (which is what I normally do, but now I have an excuse) I thought i’d take this opportunity to do something a bit more…
This past weekend, in one of my Monty Python reviews, I offhandedly mentioned the Pythons’ film careers after their work in the troupe, and it may surprise you to know that I haven’t actually seen much post-Python work from most of them. Aside from Fawlty Towers, there isn’t any Python-heavy property I’ve seen a lot…
