Cinemas Greatest Scenes: Billy Meets Gizmo in Gremlins (1984).
Is Joe Dante’s Gremlins a family horror or Christmas movie, and or both? We’ll go with both. For the record,Continue Reading
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Cinemas Greatest Scenes: Sergio Leone’s Mexican Standoff.
Long before Quentin Tarantino publicly once said that Sergio Leone’s The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (1966) was “theContinue Reading
My 10 Favourite Performances of 2022.
With the awards season kicking off shortly, I will have more to say about the films that I enjoyed andContinue Reading
Film review: Ticket to Paradise.
The endless appeal of Hollywood movies around weddings is absolutely fascinating. Do we ever really tire of them? Often theContinue Reading
Joaquin Phoenix: Best actor of the 2010s.
Joaquin Phoenix extraordinary talent as an actor has never ever been in doubt. For over the last 20+ years, heContinue Reading
My Favourite Films of 2021.
2021 wasn’t the year I hoped it would be at the movies. In Australia it was a disappointment – withContinue Reading
Rams (2020): A tale of two feuding brothers, sheep and a good dog.
Rams is a superb comedy-drama directed by Jeremy Sims (Beneath Hill 60) and starring Sam Neill (Jurassic Park) and everyone’sContinue Reading
Cinemas Greatest Scenes: Dr. Shirley helps Tony write a letter to his wife.
The critics and the Academy a few years ago had nothing but praise for Green Book. It was controversially awarded BestContinue Reading
John Ford’s revered masterpiece ‘How Green Was My Valley’ (1941).
If you have read the novel How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn, you will instantly realise what a grimContinue Reading
Jezebel (1938):Warner Brothers Very Own Antebellum Period Drama.
One of Warner studio’s most celebrated actresses in the 1930s was a defiant and feisty young woman named Bette Davis.Continue Reading
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