Even with them being the source of consternation for critics and audiences alike, tropes are an invaluable resource for the film writer – either as a framework to subscribe to or one to rebel against. A film responsible for the installation of many tropes is Sydney Pollack’s Three Days of […]
Month: April 2016
Back to God’s Country (1953) Refreshingly Straight-Forward Artic Western (Review)
A Technicolor frontier adventure set in the wilds of the Arctic, Back to God’s Country exists at the intersection of three of the most comfortingly dad-movie genres; the pre-revisionist Western, the wilderness survival story and the Jack London-patented faithful dog story. Source author James Oliver Curwood was a contemporary of […]
Keyframe 44 – The Strange Noises of Douglas Lurpak
4-Panel Episode 47 – Bat-Godzilla’s Masculine Woody Accords
4-Panel Episode 47 – Bat-Godzilla's Masculine Woody Accords
Farewell my Concubine (1993) The Chinese Epic as a performance piece (Review)
Bad Sister (1931) A Minor film with a Major claim to Fame (Review)
Cinema Eclectica 60 – Walesploitation
We collect our podcast pension this week and just to keep up will all you whippersnappers we change things up. It’s a brave new world of extreme violence, modern art and European cowboys. Off The Shelf features Nicolas Roeg’s “Eureka” and Wim Wenders’ “The American Friend” sandwiching “Evil Aliens” and […]
Pink String and Sealing Wax (1945) The Darkest Soap Opera you’ve never seen (Review)
Ealing Studios are regarded as the bastion of post-war Cinema, the home of the finest comedies Britain has ever produced, but what is often overlooked is their innate Gothicism. With the artifice of its sets and the embers of Victorian London architecture, there is a Gothic grandeur running through the […]