Starring: Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne, Jean-Pierre Kalfon Director: Jean-Luc Godard A crazy, colourful anarchic film, Week End breaks the boundaries and has a great deal of fun doing it. It's the story of a couple who are heading out into the countryside to get away from it all, but their progress is halted by a… Continue reading Classic Movie Of The Week: Week End (1967)
Starring: Kate Winslet, Idris Elba, Beau Bridges Director: Hany Abu-Assad The day before Alex (Winslet) is due to get married and Ben (Elba) is to perform vital surgery, they find themselves stranded in an airport when all flights are cancelled. Desperate to get back, the two strangers decide to charter a small plane. But when… Continue reading The Mountain Between Us (2017)
Starring: Georges Melies, Victor Andre, Bleuette Bernon Director: Georges Melies Going back quite a way into film history this time, back into a time when cinema was in it’s infancy. You’ve probably seen that image of the moon as a man’s cream cheesey looking face with a spaceship stuck in one eye, and this is… Continue reading Classic Movie Of The Week: Trip To The Moon (La Voyage Dans La Lune) (1902)
Starring: Musidora, Edouard Mathe, Marcel Levesque, Jean Ayme Director: Louis Feuillade I have a confession to make, before we go any further. This film is a seven hour long serial, of varying lengths, and I didn't watch it all. Yes, I know, that's very naughty, and I call myself a film buff... Les Vampires is… Continue reading Classic Movie Of The Week: Les Vampires (1915)
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino, Alan Curtis Director: Raoul Walsh Roy Earle (Bogart) is a well known criminal recently released from prison, and whose old boss tasks him with aiding a group of inexperienced criminals to rob a resort. But of course, things aren't going to go as planned. Before this film, Bogart was still… Continue reading Classic Movie Of The Week: High Sierra (1941)
Starring: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Natalie Wood Director: John Ford Ford made many fine westerns, but this one has become the definitive western film. It's about Ethan (Wayne), who loves his family and his secretly in love with his brothers wife. When he is drawn away by pursuing some Indian cattle thieves, he… Continue reading Classic Movie Of The Week: The Searchers (1956)
Starring: Dane DeHaan, Cara Delevingne, Clive Owen, Rihanna, Ethan Hawke Director: Luc Besson Valerian (DeHaan) and Laureline (Delevingne) are special operatives and partners in space, who may just have feelings for each other too. But before they can figure out their relationship, they have to figure out how to stop the threat to Alpha, a… Continue reading Valerian And The City Of a Thousand Planets (2017)
Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Cate Blanchett, Idris Elba, Jeff Goldblum, Tessa Thompson, Mark Ruffalo, Karl Urban, Anthony Hopkins Director: Taika Waititi When Loki (Hiddleston) unwittingly initiates the Ragnarok prophecy, Thor (Hemsworth) and Loki find themselves on a strange garbage planet while their sister Hela (Blanchett), Goddess of Death, unleashes destruction on Asgard. But before… Continue reading Thor Ragnarok (2017)
I recently joined the lovely guys at Cinema Bushido for their movie podcast on Steven Seagall's Hard To Kill, a movie that's terrible, fun and hilarious. If you love action and martial arts films, you really need to be subscribed to these podcasts. They're really good! Click below to listen and give the guys a… Continue reading Podcast time: Hard To Kill on Cinema Bushido!
Starring: Nat Wolff, Lakeith Stanfield, Margaret Qualley, Willem Dafoe Director: Adam Wingard Light Turner (Wolff) is a regular high school kid, til one day a book lands out of the sky and falls in his lap. It's the Death Note book, and if you write a name on it's pages that person will die. You… Continue reading Death Note (2017)
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