When I first saw Jaws 2 I was 6 years old and I watched it when it was first shown on network TV. I loved it and I thought of it as a worthy sequel to the original. Would I feel the same as a 48-year-old? Erm, no. Let's get the obvious out of the …
Category: Film
Review- Weird Science (1985)
The last time I watched Weird Science was when it was on TV in the 80s. A rewatch was on the cards. Gary and Wyatt are two geeky teens who are regularly humiliated by their peers. They decide to create their ideal woman using computers after watching the classic movie Frankenstein. Their plan works. I …
Top 10 Films From 1975
I was born in 1975. Here are my favourite films from that year. 10. Death Race 2000 9. Shivers 8. Salo 7. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest 6. Jaws 5. Fox and His Friends 4. The Rocky Horror Picture Show 3. Grey Gardens 2. The Stepford Wives 1. I Don't Want To Be Born
Review- Tales From The Crypt (1972)
Five tourists who are exploring old catacombs find themselves separated from the main group they are with and instead in the company of The Crypt Keeper. He seemingly details how each of them will die. The film then presents five separate stories regarding each character. These are 'All Through The House' in which on Christmas …
Film Review- Other, Like Me: The Oral History of Coum Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle (2020)
I first heard of the transgressive music group Throbbing Gristle through my love of Siouxsie and the Banshees. I also bought the book about them, Wreckers of Civilization by Simon Ford when I lived in London. Shortly after this TG's back catalogue was remastered and I lapped it up. For years I hoped for a …
Review- Tales That Witness Madness (1973)
A psychiatrist shows a colleague some of his clients whilst explaining their backstories. A young boy has a nightly visitor- a tiger who will kill for him, an antique dealer has a Penny Farthing that he inherited from his aunt that allows him to travel back in time, Joan Collins finds that she must compete …
Review- North By Northwest (1959)
Suave, debonair advertising executive Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a government agent which results in a gang of foreign spies trying to bump him off whilst making it look like an accident. This doesn't go to plan. Instead, whilst trying to prove his innocence he then gets framed for murder and has to go on …
Review- Con Air (1997)
U.S. Army Ranger Sgt Cameron Poe (Nicolas Cage) accidentally kills a man who has been harassing him and his wife after they are reunited. He serves his time and 8 years later is paroled. To get back to his native Alabama he boards a prison transportation plane. Other criminals are also sharing the flight and …
Review- Corruption (1968)
Wanna see what would happen if someone as old school as Peter Cushing went to a groovy late 60s Swinging London happening? If so then Corruption is the film for you. Cushing plays plastic surgeon Sir John Rowan who after getting into a fight with Anthony Booth's sleazy photographer accidentally disfigures his fiancee's face after …
Review- The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway) lands a job in which she becomes the junior personal assistant to Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep), the editor of the fashion magazine Runway. After she flounders in her role, she approaches Nigel (Stanley Tucci), an art director to teach her how to prosper in the bitchy and backstabbing world of fashion …
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