Colin Edwards·4d ago‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’ or — Better than ‘Close Encounters’ AND ‘Spaceballs’ Combined?Despite having had the movie sitting on my shelf since last year I’d deliberately put off watching ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’ (1983)…
Colin Edwards·Jul 1‘The Pornographers’ or — Weird Fishes?Shōhei Imamura’s most famous quotation — “I’m interested in the relationship of the lower part of the human body and the lower part of the…
Colin Edwards·Jun 27‘Warm Water Under a Red Bridge’ or — Semiotic Fluids?Do I have a favourite filmmaker? Yes, and it’s Shōhei Imamura.
Colin Edwards·Jun 22‘The Girl from Marsh Croft’ or — Sirk Shatters the Screen?One of the things I love about Douglas Sirk are his transitions; the way he’d inventively move from one scene to the next by either a fade…
Colin Edwards·Jun 19‘The Singing Thief’ or — An Irresitible Multicoloured Gem?My expectations weren’t too high going into ‘The Singing Thief’ (1969) last night as I tend to find the majority of these James Bond…
Colin Edwards·Jun 9‘West 11’ or — Kitchen Sink Noir?Considering ‘West 11’ (1963) was written by Willis Hall and Keith Waterhouse, whose credits include ‘Billy Lair’ (1963) and ‘A Kind of…
Colin Edwards·Jun 6‘Dirty Weekend’ or — The Only Genuinely Interesting Film Michael Winner Ever Made?In the early 1990s, after a string of failures, Michael Winner decided his best bet was to frantically retreat into familiar well-worn…
Colin Edwards·Jun 4‘Lawman’ or — The Mild Bunch?‘Lawman’ (1971) is a deeply frustrating experience because it’s an interesting idea surrounded by a rather uninteresting movie.
Colin Edwards·May 29‘Triplanetary’ or — The Derranged Intergalactic Fever-Dream of a Demented Doughnut Chemist?When I was a kid one of the first books I remember owning was the Panther edition of E.E. “Doc” Smith’s ‘Triplanetary’, the “first” book in…
