31 May 2019
21 August 2019
#TBT: Patriot Games. Looking back at 1992’s Tom Clancy / Harrison Ford Thriller. Just in time for series 2 of Jack Ryan on Amazon!
Throw-Back Thursday: Patriot Games (1992) ‘How’s the family, Ryan?’ Paramount Pictures. Action Thriller. Part of the Jack Ryan series. Ryan must return to the CIA when he and his family are targeted by a vengeful IRA splinter group. Director: Phillip Noyce Writers: W. Peter Iliff and Donald E. Stewart;...
01 May 2019
The Best ENDGAME viral video and Podcast Coverage Digest with Spoilers Attached
PODCAST AND VIRAL VIDEO DIGEST AVENGERS ENDGAME is breaking all kinds of records (including most grown men crying in a Cinema!). We have summarised the best YouTube and other sources of commentary, debrief, consideration, promotion and review. NB: Here be SPOILERS! So watch with caution. But it’s...
Two Comedies from Channel 4. HOME is everything wrong with the British Media /Political zeitgeist. But DERRY is BRILLIANT!
HOME and DERRY: two comedies..both alike in release date, production / release dates..both available on Catch up.. Derry Girls speaks for itself. A warm, funny, real, historical portrait of Ireland in transition. Layered with pathos and dramatic implication. But it’s a laugh a second, too and just MOVES with...
03 December 2018
ROBIN HOOD! PETERLOO! FAHRENHEIT 11/9: What do These Films have in Common? And What Sets Them Apart? Political Cinema vs Cinematic Politics..
Three Movies. All Very Different. Or ARE they? Let’s Take a Closer Look.. How does one ‘do’ politics on film? I think George Clooney once put it nicely: ‘I want the audience to ask questions’. IE: You don’t answer anything; never dictate, didactically, the messages that an audience ought...
21 August 2018
GOODBYE, MR BOYLE! BOND 25 Director leaves the project. Creative Differences Cited. Where now for 007? BREAKING NEWS.
DANNY BOYLE IS OUT OF BOND 25. ‘SHOCKING, POSITIVELY SHOCKING’ ‘We’re not a COUNTRY CLUB, 007’. ‘No-one ever leaves the KGB‘ How does 007 get out of THIS one? What it might mean, moving forward..AGENT JAMES MURPHY CONSIDERS ALL OPTIONS.. I thought it was a spoof. A Russian...
