A long time ago in a galaxy far far away, spoilers lay ahead… Hello guys, and welcome again to my Classic Film Kid blog! Today we are summing the word classic up to a T by reviewing one of the most iconic and influential films in cinema history, Star Wars […]
Month: June 2017
Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans (2017) For fans of Formula One and “the King of Cool” (Review)
If you read the stories surrounding the production of the film Le Mans, the ill-fated Steve McQueen racing passion project, then it sounds like the production of Coppola’s Apocalypse Now. Both films went massively over budget and over schedule, accidents occurred, cast and crew members dropped out by the day etc. But […]
S14E15 – Battle Royale or Go Home
Cinema Eclectica 114 – Cops Vs Goatzilla
Ever had one of those mornings? Anne Hathaway does in our Film or the Week – “Colossal” – when she finds out last night’s drunken bender has somehow destroyed Seoul. There’s plenty of destruction in Off the Shelf with yakuza running amok in Kinji Fukasaku’s “Cops vs Thugs”, emotional devastation […]
Spotlight on a Murderer (1961) An anti-murder mystery from a famed French Surrealist (Review)
Literary Loitering 65 – It’s a Mads Mads Mads Mads World
While the sales of real books rises and e-books fall, we discover a litany of complaints from a conservative politician (about a literary prize), Marcel Proust (about his neighbour’s sexy time), women about Bill O’Reilly (for being Bill O’Reilly we presume), and J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis (about Walt Disney). […]