Back in the late eighties and early nineties I was a devoted fanatic of the Moviedrome series presented by Alex Cox, the maverick British director. It was devoted to classic and cult movies to which he’d give five minutes of fascinating, insightful introduction, before they played the film in question. I always enjoyed the […]
Cloverfield is the latest movie to take the form of the false document. It’s also utterly gripping. The movie is supposedly filmed by the geeky one in a bunch of New York City twenty somethings, whose charmed, neurotic life comes to an abrupt end during the course of the movie at the jaws of a […]
‘Tis also the season to watch movies, and last night I was lucky enough to watch a remarkable movie. I’d first heard of The Tree of Wooden Clogs in an interview with Mike Leigh who called the movie a masterpiece in the Telegraph excellent Film makers on film series, since then I’d carried the tip […]
HOT NEWS: For all fans of Monkey fans, that is Monkey Magic fans, the latest gossip is that the new Monkey film starring Jackie Chan and Jet Li is going to be directed by Peter ‘My Precious’ Jackson. I suppose Jackie Chan will be Monkey, but who will be the Tripitaka? Not to mention Pigsy […]
