*contains spoilers There is a bit of a mirrored loop when it comes to Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill (2003, 2004) movies and a couple of other films… I’ll start with Tarantino. Watching them again and the more I like Jackie Brown (1997) and the earlier movies. I went to the cinema twice to see Once…
*contains spoilers Name: BronwynAge: 65 Occupation: Retired teacher Favorite movie: Thelma & Louise (1991) Saw it First: I saw it on tv and then I bought the VHS tape and then the DVD. Starring: Geena Davis, Susan Sarandon, Harvey Keitel and Brad Pitt Plot: A road movie directed by Ridley Scott about a couple of…
Read more My Cult Movie: “There is a wonderful sense of moving on…”
*contains spoilers Growing up with the Saturday and Sunday matinee double feature on television from midday introduced me to Jerry Lewis (1926-2017 heart disease). He was a clown who had it as opposed to the clown from the movie It. And if you mention the name of Jerry Lewis to the younger generation most won’t…
Read more “It” is a Genius Clown Named Jerry Lewis, he Cried
*contains spoilers Name: AmandaAge: 34 Occupation: Marketing and Comms Consultant Favourite Movie: The Sound of Music (1965)First Saw It: When I was really little on tv. I must have been five with my mum at home one night and it went for hours Starring: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker, Richard Haydn and, of course,…
Read more My Cult Movie: “It was the gift that kept on giving…”
*contains spoilers There are a trio of movies by Italian director Sergio Martino (1938-) made all around the same time of each other known as his “Adventure Trilogy”. They are Mountain of the Cannibal God aka Slave of the Cannibal God (1978), The Great Alligator River (1979) aka Big Alligator River aka Alligators and Island…
*contains spoilers The Evil Within (2017) isn’t a great horror movie. It is a disturbing and, at times, sadistic and hallucinatory nightmare. Not particularly frightening – but, yes, at times just a little bit disturbing! And it call comes from – I would also suggest –the disturbed mind of its creator who wrote and directed…
*contains spoilers Broken Hill is a silver mining town some 500km north east of Adelaide, the capital of South Australia. It is in the middle of the outback. It is where Mad Max 2 aka The Road Warrior was shot back in the early 1980s. As a young journalist in the early 1990s, I caught…
*contains spoilers Name: Maliah Age: 17 Occupation: High School Student Favourite Movie: 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) First Saw It: When I was about ten with my mum at home on DVD Starring: Julia Stiles, Heath Ledger, Larisa Oleynik and Joseph Gordon-Levitt Plot: An overprotective father won’t let his younger daughter date unless…
Read more My Cult Movie: “I have seen this film about thirty times…”
*contains spoilers Name: JudiAge: 60Occupation: Public Servant Favourite Movie: Legally Blonde (2001) Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Luke Wilson, Selma Blair and Matthew Davis. First Saw It: I don’t think I saw it at the movies, so it must have been on video cassette. Plot: A perky young woman goes to Harvard Law School to win her…
Read more My Cult Movie: “I like that it has shades of a revenge movie…”
*contains spoilers Arthur Miller’s one act play Some Kind of Love Story (1984) barely rates a mention in Timebends and I don’t think Miller considered it an important play. Like Norman Mailer’s Tough Guys Don’t Dance, it was apparently based on a real life case in a New England town. This time a teenager was…
Read more Marilyn’s Ghost in Arthur Miller’s The Misfits and Everybody Wins (Part Two)
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