These are two mythical Westerns from Clint Eastwood, both of which essentially have the same conceit – the Clint character is the reincarnation of a dead lawman murdered by bandits, who returns to deliver justice to the perpetrators. High Plains Drifter was the first Western Clint directed himself, and the influence of Sergio Leone looms…
The Karate Kid
I never saw this movie in the 80s, and only recently watched it on Netflix. I had a general idea of what it was about, and somewhere I remembered knowing about the phrase ”wax on, wax off”, but this was one of those 80s ‘classics’ that had totally passed me by. What got me into…
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
This is a selection of stills and the UK press kit from Steven Spielberg’s remarkably dark follow-up to Raiders of the Lost Ark. Temple is actually a prequel to Raiders. It kicks off with a fantastic opening sequence, set to “Anything Goes”, sung in Mandarin, and climaxes with an amazing set-piece rail car chase through…
Kill Bill
Kill Bill is my joint favourite Quentin Tarantino movie, along with Pulp Fiction. Tarantino movies tend to veer between breathlessly exhilarating and sluggishly unwatchable. His tendency to deliberately drag scenes and dialogue out to breaking point reached its nadir for me with The Hateful Eight which I, well, hated. Kill Bill Volume 2 was a…