Starburst Memories: Tired of reality?
You might consider that you wasted your youth. Perhaps you spent it shooting pool in some smoky hall, locked in your bedroom playing the guitar or just partying hard when […]
Dirk’s Five – Ray Harryhausen Creature Preacher
So, farewell then Ray Harryhaussen, Your stop motion effects were inspiring. It’s been touch and go, touch and go, Touch and go, touch and go, For ages. Rest in Peace. […]
CHRIS: The Dungeon Masters (McAlester, US, 2008)
For us, the movie came down to an essential question about creativity. Because if you’re an adult in America and you get paid to be creative, people look at you […]
Woodython Five (2): Eurotrash
The Woodython continues. In 2013 we are watching the complete films of Woody Allen and neatly packaging them into a series of ten or more themed lists. This is the […]
Dirk’s Five: The Fab Four Five (Part Two) The Solo Years
The Beatles’ Solo Years. After my initial thought of giving 4 bad films and one good one, I decided to concentrate on the only important Beatle in film, George Harrison. […]
Starburst Memories: Blitz – Review of the Eighties
You may have missed the news, but last month Saint Margaret Hilda Thatcher passed away and it would be remiss of us to allow this event to go un-noticed. She […]
Dirk’s Five – The Fab Four Five (Part One)
The Beatles on celluloid shows them maturing and disintegrating before our eyes. The movies helped to define the band, the brand and the individual characters: John the sharp and witty […]
