10. The Irishman A fantastic study on ageing, psychopathy and the passage of time aided by the use of age-defying CGI. This was made by Netflix for people to watch on Netflix. I actually watched it on the big screen in the opulent surroundings of Leeds Town Hall on a wooden seat. An uncomfortable experience …
My early teenage years were when I discovered my three favourite living film directors- John Waters, William Friedkin and Martin Scorsese. It was whilst I was frantically hunting down all of the movies made by Scorsese after first watching Taxi Driver when I was 14 that I read of a documentary made in 1977 called …
Fat nurse Martha Beck is joined into a lonely hearts club by her best friend Bunny. Almost instantly she starts to correspond with a man called Raymond Fernandez. Their correspondence grows more intense with the bond between them being so strong that Martha invites him to her home in Mobile, Alabama. After a night of …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2020- Day 2- The Honeymoon Killers (1970) ****
I was 14 and the exact right age to watch Taxi Driver for the first time. The perfect movie about alienation being watched by a moody teenager who felt completely alienated. I would regularly venture from my hometown of York to the bustling neighbouring city of Leeds and it was on my next excursion after …
This has one of the most crazy plots of any Hammer film I've ever seen. I won't give away everything that happens though. A Cornish village is suffering from some sort of plague that is bumping people off at such a rate that the local doctor asks an expert friend to investigate what is happening. …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween- Day 9- Plague of the Zombies (1966)
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