Psycho (1998)
Fresh from the pile of DVDs Alex got me for my birthday comes this remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 masterpiece. What I didn’t realise was that Alex obviously hates me, […]
Author Archives: Dan Meier
Philomena
Here’s another film about a journalist, which would have made a much better premise for my recent blog on the subject so just pretend I did that. Based on a […]
Journo-lists
Using the fact that The Fifth Estate is still in cinemas as a flimsy pretext, here are some top 5 lists of journalists in film and television. Even though Julian […]
Happy Birthday Rosemary’s Baby
This year Rosemary’s Baby turned 45, making it everyone’s favourite 45 year old baby with the possible exception of Professor Brian Cox. Roman Polanski’s 1968 film about Mia Farrow and her […]
Woody Allen: A Double Bill
Below is a photo of me opening a Woody Allen boxset which my colleague Alex took for reasons I can only describe as racist. Allen has pretty much directed one […]
Crumb
Often cited as one of the best documentaries ever made, 1994’s Crumb is a portrait of underground cartoonist, artist and musician Robert Crumb and his family. Being something of a philistine, I’d […]
Video Nasty 16: The Driller Killer
In 1983, the British Director of Public Prosecutions produced a list of movies banned on home video – a list which would come to include 72 “video nasties” in total. […]
Garfield or The Things I Do For This Blog…
Due to a combination of insomnia and missing my cats, I’ve recently become a big fan of Garfield and his cartoon non-adventures. So I decided to take it upon myself […]
Under The Sea Part 8: Das Boot
No submarine film series would be complete without Das Boot, the 3.5 hour German epic from 1981. Directed by Wolfgang Petersen, Das Boot explores life onboard a U-boat during the Second World […]
Under The Sea Part 6: The Bedford Incident
This 1965 cold war classic follows the ruthless captain (Richard Widmark) of the USS Bedford as it hunts down a Soviet submarine. Near the Greenland fjords, two outsiders join the […]
Screen Goblin 