*contains spoilers and more The Red Balloon is a short film running a little over a half an hour which was made in France. It is one of the first colour short films to be awarded a prize and showered in gifts… Yes, I am a bit jealous as I never won an award in…
Read more The Cult of the lonely boy in The Red Balloon (1956)
*contains spoilers The euthanasia debate is about to take place in Queensland Parliament in the next few weeks and it relates to a long-suppressed MGM movie Whose Life is it Anyway? (1981) … It stars Richard Dreyfuss, so memorable as Quint’s nerdy nemesis in Jaws (1976), who plays a man/artist who loses the use of…
Read more The Cult of Whose Life is it Anyway? (1981) as YOU were better than a mercy Killing!
*contains massive spoilers Well, here we have another long-winded summation – not as long as Lord of the Rings – of the mystery of Qanon and ‘ritual’ sexual abuse of children and its link to ‘self-abuse’ … and sexuality dealt by an everlasting secret and now not so secret family. Yes, I know some churches…
Read more The Cult of Pagan Ritual in The Wicker Man (1973) Part Three
*contains spoilers I’ll move over to the sequel to The Wicker Man and that is The Wicker Tree (2011) which was directed by the same man who was Robin Hardy (1929-2016). He is a man who perhaps piqued the interest of the barman as to what is under a Scotsman’s kilt with this movie while…
Read more The Cult of Pagan Ritual in The Wicker Man (1973) Part Two
*contains spoilers “We’ve been dealt their doomwatch/Doomwatch,” says a local villager on the Hebridean island of Summerisle off the coast of Scotland in The Wicker Man (1973) … On the surface there seems to be an unhappy conspiracy on this island (Earth!) as actor Edward Woodward (1930-2009 in Truro, Cornwall) is an incorruptible puritan virgin…
Read more The Cult of Pagan Ritual in The Wicker Man (1973) Part One
*contains spoilers Meanwhile the play The Tempest reminds us it’s all a dream as its actors tell us that “our little life is rounded with a sleep”. That’s it, baby, you wake and face the world is a mess or accept that just like in alcoholics anonymous that there are things we can and cannot…
Read more The Cult of Robby the Robot in Forbidden Planet (1956) and others (Part Two)
*contains spoilers Forbidden Planet (1956) strikes at the heart of the climate change debate with a metaphor of angst being at the heart and its ‘sequel’ The Invisible Boy (1957) hints at drones, the internet and a supercomputer… and robots saving the innocence of children around the house. And time travel is in there too…
Read more The Cult of Robby the Robot in Forbidden Planet (1956) and others (Part One)
In terms of the tontine of Gaslight and the revolution against the union of toxic ‘gas-lighters’ in your neighbourhood or otherwise and the survivor is Angela Lansbury (1925-). She turned up in Brisbane nearly a decade ago and gave us a rendition of Driving Miss Daisy with the voice of Darth Vader of Star Wars…
Read more David Bowie’s Revenge for Gaslight (1944) in the AC/DC war of The Prestige (Part Two)
*contains spoilers Do you know what my Nietzschean cross to bear has been for the last twenty years and which has been an ordeal of innocence to survive? It is the web of toxic masculinity which exists in my neighbourhood… and the current state of fear by the media gaslighting the population hung-up by governments…
Read more David Bowie’s Revenge for Gaslight (1944) in the AC/DC war of The Prestige (Part One)
“I’ll leave my Supermen to the comic strips,” says Holliman’s character about this supposed Nietzschean murderer whose evolution sees him disrespect the lessons of The Bible and its parables as well as psychology and the law itself. He or she can get away with killing anonymously… Hamilton doesn’t agree but he listens and understands his…
Read more The Nietzschean Superman’s Cross to Bear in The Power (1967) Part Two
