*contains spoilers Writer and cartoonist James Thurber (1894-1961 blood clot on the brain) was blinded in one eye by his brother at the age of seven when an arrow was shot into his eye while they played a game of William Tell, that folk hero who could shoot an apple off the top of your…
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*contains spoilers I went to my favourite local cinema early to get a ticket for The Father (2020) starring Anthony Hopkins as a man battling dementia and I sat in the deserted Gold Class lounge overlooking the trees across the road. There is a long line of trees and through the windows you cannot see…
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*contains spoilers The movie Superintelligence (2020) shows us how a person who would otherwise be deemed ‘unremarkable’ could possibly be chosen as a test case over the goodness of humanity to an omnipresent artificial intelligence. This intelligence is weighing up whether to destroy humanity or to save it… Or just leave them to their own…
Read more The Superintelligence (2020) of The Twonky (1953) leads to TerrorVision (1986)
*contains spoilers Fans of Gene Wilder (1933-2016 Alzheimer’s disease) and Zero Mostel (1915-77 heart aneurysm) who appeared together in the Mel Brooks comedy The Producers (1968) are probably not aware of the theatre of the absurd movie version of playwright Eugene Ionesco’s (1909-94) Rhinoceros (1974). While this isn’t a great movie, part of the absurdist…
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*contains spoilers If we jump to Tucker’s The Cape Canaveral Monsters and while that film relates to the space race between superpowers back in the late 1950s, it is still relevant today with each rich nation seeming to be spending money on becoming the first to have a colony on Mars. I bet the Martians…
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*contains spoilers “Our freedom for our knowledge,” says a character in The Cape Canaveral Monsters (1960) in his bid to strike a deal of release from his alien captors as he then speaks Pig Latin to his cuffed girlfriend, something which fools these evil characters who are bent on stopping the Earth from ever exploring…
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*contains spoilers Let’s take a look at a couple of movies which deal with medications. Firstly, there’s Misconduct (2016) which shows how the law and big pharmaceutical corporations remain credible in the eyes of the public and the world through manipulation of the law. Then second is Side Effects (2013) which shows the trickle-down effect…
Read more The Prescription for Misconduct (2016) may have killer Side Effects (2013)
