*contains spoilers Phantoms (1998) is based on the Dean Koontz (1945-) novel which he also adapted to the screen. It remains his only true cinematic screenplay which is a shame because it’s a very good one. It begins with Dr Jennifer Pailey (Joanna Going 1963-) taking her sister Lisa (Rose McGowan 1973-) to her small-town…
*contains spoilers Director and screenwriter Larry Cohen (1941-2019) died on March 23 of undisclosed causes. He left a small trove of low-budget B-grade material. Notable are the It’s Alive trilogy (1074, 1978 and 1987) about mutant babies. Those movies play on any expecting parent’s fears as, in the original movie It’s Alive (1974), a mother…
Christopher Doyle (1952-) is an Australian born cinematographer who left Australia as a teenager and after working odd jobs throughout the world became a student of Chinese culture and a photographer. Cinematography followed and he made his first movie in Taiwan in the early 80s. Since then he has worked on over 50 movies in…
Read more Cinematographer Christopher Doyle on Chinese Cinema and the Psycho remake
*contains spoilers As many will already know, Orson Welles’ movie The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) was taken out of his hands by RKO studios and over an hour was hacked from it. What remains is still regarded a masterpiece. The same type of thing happened with Jean Renoir’s (1894-1979 heart attack) last American movie The Woman…
*contains spoilers and course strong language not recommended to readers under 15 years of age… Of course I trod in it big time with this three part article which was a three part joke used to defuse the seriousness of the three part article on The Pagans and the Wicker Tree and all that QAnon…
Read more Act Three: The Ritual of Wanking to Movies American Style!
*contains spoilers and strong course language not recommended for people under 15 years of age … as once more it was seen as rude… The actors in this story are over the age of sixteen and they participated in what was essentially a joke… I don’t think the issue really matters but once again my…
Read more Act Two: Understanding Your Homosexuality through Movies
*contains spoilers and strong course language not recommended for persons under 15 years old and comes with a warning. This article offended some people in the office I am associated with and it was removed, ahem, without my permission… and I was detained for four months… when really it is all just a joke! Some…
*contains spoilers and more including material which may offend as it tells of growing up in a poor suburb where you may or may not have been dealt a full foreskin. Avoid this article otherwise as it was deleted unauthorised by M4Media… due to its shocking content. The Red Balloon is a short film running…
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
