Straw Dogs
In Sam Peckinpah’s 1971 thriller Straw Dogs, American academic David (Dustin Hoffman) and his English wife Amy (Susan George) move to her tiny Cornish village with barely enough room to […]
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A Clockwork Orange
In a dystopian Britain where people roam the streets in strange face masks, Alex (Malcolm MacDowell) and his gang of droogs engage in a nightly crime spree that makes The […]
Pink Narcissus
As a rent boy (Bobby Kendall) lies bored in his apartment he imagines a series of erotic fantasies, with himself as the central character. Made in the USA just two […]
On the Buses
I’ve never witnessed the sitcom adventures of Blakey (Stephen Lewis) in On the Buses, although I have listened to Art Blakey on plenty of buses. And technically I’ve only half-seen […]
Bananas
Separating the art from the artist sounds great in theory but there’s something about Woody Allen that makes it difficult in practice, though I can’t quite put my finger on […]
The Last Picture Show
Set in a small Texan town in the 1950s, The Last Picture Show follows the lives of its eclectic inhabitants, focusing on the romantic entanglements of its teenagers who are […]
Fiddler on the Roof
The Jewish community of Anatevka lives a modest but peaceful life in tsarist Russia. Farmer Tevier (Topol) works hard for his family, and dreams of marrying off his five daughters […]
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
Beneath the Planet of the Apes was a hard act to follow. Not least because the entire planet was destroyed at the end. The fact this film isn’t called Floating […]
Duel- An analogy for the internet troll
Every time I watch Spielberg’s superb debut Duel I’m blown away by the brilliance of its simplicity. The whole film is essentially one long car chase and pure suspense from start to […]
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