Saboteur
In 1942 a worker in a factory (Robert Cummings) making planes for the war effort witnesses an act of sabotage. Being close by at the time, the authorities suspect him […]
Tag Archives: Retro review
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
I’ve never seen a Planet of the Apes movie before, put off by the dodgy rubber masks and by having watched five minutes of the Tim Burton one. Yet Andy […]
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 […]
On iPlayer: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
In 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor of French Elle, suffered a major stroke, leaving him completely paralysed apart from a single eyelid. He painstakingly dictated his memoirs to his assistant, Claude […]
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 […]
BASEketball
Two lowlifes invent a sport which is like basketball but with some elements of baseball to win a bet and impress a girl. When the game goes big they blah […]
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 7: The Hunt For Red October
It’s 1984 and the Soviet Union’s flagship is on course for the USA. CIA agent Jack Ryan suspects a defection, but his superiors are unsure, leading to a tough decision […]
Screen Goblin 