Timbuktu
Don’t worry if you’ve not seen Timbuk-one; this is an original drama from Mauritania, about a West African community under the control of Islamic extremists. Based on the brief occupation […]
Monthly Archives: June 2015
Danny Collins
Al Pacino plays the titular character, an ageing musician who has a mid-life crisis about 30 years too late when he realises he’s just singing the same songs over and […]
The Dark Knight
There was lots of gushing over this film when it first came up. But not enough, if you ask me, so I’m going to gush about it some more. I’m […]
Friday the 13th Part 2
Betsy Palmer died this week at the age of 88; an esteemed actor best known to horror fans as Mrs. Voorhees, Jason’s menacing mother in Friday the 13th. Although she initially thought […]
Hellraiser & Hellbound
What is it with boxes in horror? Mulholland Drive, The Box, Deal or No Deal… But there is none more terrifying than the puzzle box of Clive Barker’s Hellraiser; a […]
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
“We’re in the streets of San Francisco looking for a pair of humpback whales.” So says Captain Kirk in a helpfully succinct synopsis of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. […]
Batman Begins
Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy won acclaim from critics, made billions at the box office and made it ok for adults to like superheroes. Now, with the next incarnation of Batman […]
Blog: Morgan Freeman – Ageing Scienceman
Russian scholar Vladmir Propp famously came up with seven character types that appear in fiction. However, as Propp came up with his theory based on fairytales in 1946, he missed […]
All About Eve
Bette Davis plays Margo Channing, the most successful stage actor in America and an egomaniac who surrounds herself with admirers. And no-one admires her more than Eve (Anne Baxter), a […]
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Following on directly from the events of Wrath of Khan, The Search for Spock is a 90 minute undoing of that film’s ending. At the end of the second film […]
