I remember I saw The Right Stuff on a late night press screening while reviewing movies for my university magazine, and I found it hugely impressive. Writer/director Philip Kaufman does a fine job weaving a coherent narrative out of the true story of early NASA test pilots leading up to John Glenn being the first…
The Cotton Club
Here’s a shout-out for Francis Ford Coppola’s OTHER great gangster movie, 1984’s Harlem-set The Cotton Club. Coppola took the job because he needed the money, having bankrupted himself making One From The Heart. Its production was an expensive shambles, spread over 5 years, it lost a ton of money, and one of its financial backers…
Film Review
Film Review (originally ABC Film Review) was a UK movie magazine that I used to buy when visiting my local cinema in the 70s. It ran from 1950 to 2008, ultimately billing itself as “Britain’s longest-running film magazine.” Because it was tied in to the cinemas themselves, it was not the place to come to…
The Great Escape
The Great Escape used to be on British TV pretty much EVERY Christmas afternoon. That’s how I remember it. The film is a heavily fictionalised account of a real mass escape from a POW camp. It’s undoubtedly one of the all-time classic war movies. Rarely if ever has such a fantastic cast been assembled, and…
Manhattan
Its not very fashionable to plug Woody Allen these days, for entirely understandable reasons. (Quite apart from most of his recent efforts being awful). But its worth remembering back in the day he did deliver a number of classics, not least 1979’s Manhattan. Its a romantic comedy, but also a love letter to Allen’s beloved…
The Man With The Golden Gun
The Man With The Golden Gun was Roger Moore’s second foray as James Bond. Having subsequently lived for many years in the Far East, it is interesting for me in retrospect to see its clever use of locations in Thailand and Hong Kong. Some of it was filmed in Phuket, which at the time was…
Gremlins
Gremlins is one of my favourite Christmas movies…if indeed it can be classed as a Christmas movie at all. It is set during holidays, with snow, carols and decorations all prominent.The action kicks off when the hero is given a cute, cuddly creature called a ‘mogwai’ as a present. Unfortunately, if the mogwai is fed…
Roman Holiday
When you need cheering up, you can’t go wrong with a little Audrey in your life! Here is Ms Hepburn resplendent on this undated Japanese chirashi for the 1953 classic Roman Holiday, the movie that did for Vespas what James Bond did for Aston Martin. This was Hepburn’s first major movie role, and it won…
Arsenic And Old Lace
This was one of the oldest posters I had until I sold it last year: an original 1948 first release Belgian poster for Frank Capra’s classic black comedy Arsenic And Old Lace. This 1944 movie was based on a very successful Broadway play, and features everyone’s favourite leading man, the one and only Cary Grant….
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