When people say, “They don’t make films like that anymore” – usually it’s movies that wouldn’t hold up to the social norms of the contemporary era. A homophobic, racist, sexist or transphobic joke here or there ages a film harder than just about anything else. I should say this is […]
Quentin Tarantino
Reservoir Dogs (1992) Surprisingly Emotional and Effortlessly Cool Crime Classic (Blu-Ray Review)
CONTAINS SPOILERS Hello Geek Show, and welcome once again! Today I’m looking at another recent re-release on Blu-Ray, but instead of an underappreciated historical gem or unearthed Japanese monster movies from the 50s, it’s a much more widely-known film, generally accepted to be a classic. It’s Quentin Tarantino’s first feature […]
One-Armed Boxer (1972) The Good, The Shaft and the Okinawan Karate Vampire (Review)
Cinema Eclectica 218 – Angel of the North Has Fallen
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith: “A Fugitive from Justice…Or from Injustice”?
Often cited as one of the most important Australian films ever made and a key text in the Aussie New Wave movement of the 1970s, Fred Schepisi’s The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith is a beautifully shot yet heart wrenching and savage account of institutionalised racism in colonial Australia at the turn […]
Under Fire (1983) the exception to the white saviour row? (Review)
Hitler’s Hollywood (2017) Modern History and it’s cinema’s darkest days (Review)
What do you think of when you think of Nazi-era German cinema? Leni Riefenstahl filling the screen with crowds cheering Hitler, or the explicitly anti-Semitic likes of Jud Süß and The Eternal Jew? Perhaps you think of Quentin Tarantino’s literal and figurative massacre of the industry in Inglourious Basterds, and […]
Twin Peaks The Return Episode 16 (The Rewatch)
S15E10 – The Children of Tight Jeans
Producer Rob is joined by a rather ill Graham for another turn on our chatter-go-round. We kick things off this week with a look at Facebook’s terrible security strategies before moving on to Google, who are offering people the most frightening and soul-destroying job that anyone could have on the […]
It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963) So overambitious it’s amazing it doesn’t fall apart (Review)
Where, But In America? asked an early working title for Stanley Kramer’s extravagant Ultra Panavision progenitor of the ‘epic comedy’ genre. Scotland is the sensible answer, the planned location of a wacky race that the transatlantic writing duo of William and Tania Rose, famous for Ealing comedies such as The […]