Cider and Cinema Beer Special: In Bruges
I went to Belgium last week and really enjoyed looking at all the old buildings and that. These ones were in Brussels… Now, I love cider as you might already […]
Category Archives: Crime
Gone Girl
I watched Gone Girl last weekend. It’s quite good, isn’t it? I’m not going to outline the plot because there are virtually hundreds of reviews on my Reader right now […]
The Counsellor
What follows are my thoughts as I watched the rather terrible film: The Counsellor. SPOILERS ABOUND! So, this is on my TV as we speak and I just had to […]
The Traveler
Ah, poor Val Kilmer. Wasn’t he a pretty big star, at one point? I feel kind of bad because he although he remains prolific, this isn’t Willow-level film making, we’re […]
Filth
Take a moment to imagine if Begbie had been the protagonist of Trainspotting. [shudder]. No, I’m not sure that would’ve worked, either. But that’s what I was reminded of as […]
M (1931)
Wow! Simply, wow! Fritz Lang’s 1931 tale, of a German city besieged by an unknown child murdered, is an utterly compelling piece of cinema. I was totally mesmerised throughout. It […]
Double Indemnity
Now this is a film! It was written and directed by six-time Oscar winner Billy Wilder, the genius behind Some Like it Hot, The Apartment and Sunset Boulevard, so you should know you […]
Le Boucher
Le Boucher (The Butcher) tells the story of the glamorous headmistress of a rural school, and her friendship with the local butcher. Their friendship blossoms at the same time as […]
Frenzy
Frenzy, filmed in 1972, was Alfred Hitchcock’s penultimate feature film before his death in 1980. While many people say that the director went off the boil in his later years, […]
American Hustle: what’s all the fuss about?
If only I’d read up on American Hustle before booking tickets to see it. I might have realised that the director (David O. Russell) was responsible for I Heart Huckabees, […]
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