Everyone has at least one film they watch each and every year once Christmas is on the horizon. Films like Home Alone, It’s a Wonderful Life and A Christmas Story are enjoyed by billions of people all across the world and will continue to remain popular in the future. However, […]
Year: 2016
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) Wes Anderson at his profoundly sad, moving and redemptive best (Review)
Reputations are a slippery thing, and directors sometimes start their career with one that completely contradicts the one they get later. The French critics who would come to damn Spielberg as the McDonalds of cinema had previously swooned over the existential spareness of Duel. Likewise, after works like O Brother, […]
PX11 – X-Com’s Superdimension Eater
PX11 – X-Com's Superdimension Eater
Cinema Eclectica 92 – Understanding Forest Whitaker
The Small World of Sammy Lee (1963) A Forgotten Gem of the Wave of British Social Realism (Review)
Keyframe Episode 63 – You've Been Clegged
Keyframe Episode 63 – You’ve Been Clegged
Cinema Eclectica 91 – Smackhead School Reunion
All hail our new Lizard Overlord! On this week’s episode we have a rather eventful Trailerwatch and Question of the Week, and Off The Shelf includes “Two Women” starring Sophia Loren, Werner Herzog’s volcanic documentary “Into the Inferno”, and European depress-’em-up “Aloys”. This week’s Feature Presentation is “Nocturnal Animals”. Tune […]
In Defence Of – Invincible
Director: Werner Herzog Content: Film Studio: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion Synopsis: Zishe Breitbart moves to Berlin to seek his fortune as a strongman, and comes under the management of the hypnotist and fraudulent mystic Hanussen. But this is 1932, and the Jewish Breitbart is increasingly disturbed when he realises what Germany’s […]