Literature’s great refusenik remains as ambiguous as ever – the everyman protestor who rebels of all stripes feel represents them.
Category: Review
Jesus Christ! The Unbearable Horrors Of Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s Bibilical Rock Opera
The film version of the post-hippy reinterpretation of the Passion of the Christ tries hard but is ultimately hamstrung by the terrible, terrible songs.
The Magnificent Seven Samurai
Akira Kurosawa’s action movie masterpiece remains one of the most thrilling movie experiences ever made.
Experiments In Drinking: Going Alcohol-Free
Testing out whether low or no alcohol beer and bubbly can ever compete with the real thing.
It Takes All Kinds Of Critters To Make Farmer Vincent Fritters – Checking Into Motel Hell
One of the cult classics of the early 1980s fails to live up to the promise of its own imagery and outlandishly tasteless premise.
The Espionage Era: Hot Enough For June
The first in our occasional series looking at the post-Bond spy movies that emerged in the 1960s is a lovely ‘accidental spy’ romp with Dirk Bogarde and Sylva Koscina.
Puzzles Of Invention: The Quiet Pleasures Of Rock Saws
The sedate pleasures of the rock album cover jigsaw puzzle.
Bound, Ungagged – The Crime Classic Of The 1990s
The classic modern noir of the 1990s remains one of the most inventive and provocative movies of the decade.
The Outer Fringes Of Horror Cinema: Oddball Anthology Night Train To Terror Dissected
An eccentric slice of cinematic cannibalism, as obscure and unfinished films are chopped, changed and rendered incoherent in a portmanteau of pointlessness.
Experiments In Drinking: Apsinthion De Luxe
Exploring the luminous world of low-cost supermarket absinthe, brewed in Poland.
The Historical Warnings Of Night Will Fall
Sidney Bernstein’s documentary of concentration camp footage and the reconstructed version of the long-suppressed film.
Host Story: The Hype And The Horror
The scariest film of the last decade, apparently – but does Host live up to the claims that it is the horror film we all need for the Covid Age?