It’s easy to forget that this Led Zeppelin live double album is, in fact, a movie soundtrack. I distinctly remember going to see it in a small cinema on a Saturday afternoon one-off screening when I was a teenager. It was prefaced by a ton of rock music videos (a novelty at the time), which…
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…
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I have loved movies for as long as I can remember. Growing up, there was something about the experience of going to the cinema that I found magical. Watching movies at home on my parents’ old, small, black and white TV was all well and good, but it couldn’t compete with the immersive experience of sitting…
Round Midnight
Here is an Oscar-winning soundtrack from a movie I must admit I do not remember at all well. I cannot claim to be much of a jazz connoisseur either, but I do like the imagery of late nights in smoky 50s clubs, with fragile or frazzled talents bringing magic onstage. Round Midnight casts one of…
Flashdance
“What a feeling!” If you are looking for iconic 80s movie moments Flashdance’s climactic dance audition scene would probably be in the list. Director Adrian Lyne’s 1983 movie is the frankly ludicrous yet slight story of a beautiful female factory welder (yeh right) who aspires to be a professional dancer. Lyne drew on his previous…
Midnight Cowboy
This poster for 1969’s MIdnight Cowboy is one of the more unique pieces I have in my collection. Midnight Cowboy is one of the most iconic movies of its era. It depicts the unlikely friendship of 2 loser hucksters in a seedy and desperate New York City – male prostitute Joe Buck, as played by…
Grease
I recently saw Jimmy Fallon ran a segment on The Tonight Show called “Honest Movie Reviews”, where they described Grease as “a bunch of people in their 30s, playing teenagers in the 50s, singing songs written in the 70s”. All of which is true, but it doesn’t much detract from the charm of Grease. Grease…
The Breakfast Club
I saw The Breakfast Club with low expectations when reviewing movies for my student newspaper. It turned out to be one of the classic teen movies of the 80s. It is my favourite from the late director John Hughes, who also gave us teen classics Ferris Bueller and Pretty In Pink, amongst many more. These…