The Big Sleep
Our Double Bogie continues with The Big Sleep, adapted from the Raymond Chandler novel in which private detective Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) gets mixed up in the affairs of the […]
Tag Archives: Retro review
The Maltese Falcon
Private investigator Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) is chain-smoking his way through the afternoon when in walks a beautiful woman (Mary Astor) seeking his help to follow a man she claims […]
The Island
A pair of clones (Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson) discover they are clones living in a clone compound, and the promise of an idyllic Island little more than an organ […]
The Brood
David Cronenberg’s angry divorce movie follows Frank (Art Hindle) as he tries to save his ex-wife (Samantha Eggar, brilliant) and daughter (Cindy Hinds, creepy) from an unorthodox psychotherapist (Oliver Reed, […]
Fantastic Fungi
Fungi are the most ubiquitous but among the least widely-understood life forms on our planet. Neither plant nor animal, they are in our bodies and beneath our feet, connecting forests […]
On iPlayer: The Secret of Kells
Starting their tradition of losing Oscars to Pixar, Cartoon Saloon’s first feature concerns the creation of the Book of Kells – an Irish national treasure up there with Graham Linehan […]
Days of Being Wild
An abusive womaniser (the late Leslie Cheung) leaves Hong Kong in search of his birth mother in the Philippines in Wong Kar-wai’s second feature. If As Tears Go By was a […]
As Tears Go By
A Hong Kong gangster (Andy Lau) goes to great lengths to protect his protégé “Mr Fish Balls” (Jacky Cheung) from Hong Kong loan shark Tony (Alex Man) – that’s right, […]
Da Kath and Kim Code
Look at me Kimmy. Lot at me. Look at moiiiii. Now I’ve got one word to say to you: feature length episode. Made in 2005, between the show’s third and […]
The Villainess
As far as opening action sequences go, South Korean actioner The Villainess might just have the best: a first-person, single-take fight through corridors packed with scores of assailants, like Oldboy meets […]
