Film
Never Noticed This One Wild Bit In Mulholland Drive Before…
CINEMA RULES! I’d seen Mulholland Drive maybe 10-15 times in my life but never in the big screen until the other night. Something I’d never noticed- could never have noticed on a tv screen- was this here shot. In the scene they’re watching a show about lies, art and fabrication. ‘What you’re seeing is a […]
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What I’m Watching: I Saw The TV Glow
I SAW THE TV GLOW is such a unique and powerful movie. Unique in its visuals and storytelling, powerful in its metaphor (which never hits you round the head). Two 1990s outsiders are obsessed with a show called The Pink Opaque where two teenage girls fight demons, but is there something more going on? I […]
Read more "What I’m Watching: I Saw The TV Glow"What I Watched: ‘Crash’ (1996, David Cronenberg)
‘Crash’ is quite a different movie in 2024. I hadn’t expected that when I sat down to watch it again. Like the ‘unfilmable’ book it’s based on, David Cronenberg’s movie caused outrage from both the political right and left. I always think art has hit pay dirt whenever that happens, drilled down to something deep. […]
Read more "What I Watched: ‘Crash’ (1996, David Cronenberg)"What I Watched: Eyes Of Fire (1983)
David Cameron’s favourite eighties movie, according to Amazon Prime’s trivia. However, I didn’t let the former prime minister’s approval put me off. Eyes Of Fire is about some European settlers transgressing taboo land and features a patriarchal character full of belief in his abilities but lacking any sense or spine. Weird how the art we […]
Read more "What I Watched: Eyes Of Fire (1983)"What I’m Watching: Quest (1984)
QUEST (1984). Saul Bass is rightly famous for his title sequence designs for Hitchcock and Kubrick but he also turned his hand at film making, like this short fantasy/sci—fi movie based on a Ray Bradbury tale. Humans live for only eight days on a strange world, but they send a boy on a quest to […]
Read more "What I’m Watching: Quest (1984)"Why Aren’t People Talking About This Gender Expression Arc In Furiosa?
(Slight spoilers for Furiosa). An underrated henchperson of the Mad Max universe is Mr Norton from the latest and hopefully not last film, Furiosa. Played by Elsa Pataky, we first see Norton in the chopper fight, where she is wearing a dress and is very much coded as backseat-of-the-chopper gal. But when they’re inducted into […]
Read more "Why Aren’t People Talking About This Gender Expression Arc In Furiosa?"What I’m Watching: Freaked (1993)
Bill & Ted made another movie and almost no one saw it. FREAKED (1993) was the brainchild of Alex Winter (Bill!), a full throttle FX-laden belly laugh comedy in which a former child star agrees to promote a toxic fertiliser and ends up mutated with a whole bunch of mutants, including Keanu Reeves (Ted!) as […]
Read more "What I’m Watching: Freaked (1993)"What I Watched: The UFO Incident (1973)
THE UFO INCIDENT (1975): James Earl Jones utterly sells this made for TV film about the first alien abduction claim. It’s more of a human drama than a creature feature. The abductees, Betty and Barney Hill were an interracial married couple in early sixties America (something I never knew when I read about it in […]
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