*contains spoilers The Price of Power (1969) is a spaghetti western directed by Italian Tonino Valerii (1934-2016) at a time when the assassination of public figures and politicians had peaked in the United States. Dead were Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King by assassin’s bullets the previous year, while the nation was still recovering…
Read more The JFK Assassination and Tonino Valerii’s The Price of Power (1969)
*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)
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 The Island (1980) is a misunderstood film with a possible demographic that was unable to view it, which is why it failed so miserably at the box office upon its initial release. This tale of a twelve-year-old boy adopted by murderous modern-day pirates of the Caribbean is also one of the great father-son…
Read more The Cult of a Pirate’s Rites of Passage in The Island (1980)
*contains spoilers For some the meaning of life is the movies. And some readers of this article may be lost without them. Isn’t that absurd that the movies as opposed to some divine being in the universe should be the meaning of life? … Or at least part of it? Perhaps you believe in both!…
Read more The Religion of Movies and The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
*contains spoilers Who was Lord Rochester (1647-80 venereal disease, liver disease and kidney failure), the main character of the Restoration set historical movie The Libertine? Played by Johnny Depp (1963-), who is near perfect in the role, his name was John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester… He died prematurely and his works, despite being of…
Read more The Cult of Pornographic Prose in The Libertine (2004)
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…
Did you hear the one about the footballer and the hooker? Well, I hadn’t until last night, said QAnon. What a long night it was and it was totally unexpected. I don’t know if it was the army or some sort of underworld star chamber but when the evil one’s friend the brother-in-law turned up…
“They want your vol-au-vant! … How’s that for a title?” said QAnon’s agent: “How does that grab you?… Kind of like Count Alucard does it in the mirror!” The Hollywood producer raised his eyebrows… “And there’s this great scream moment in a supermarket where a women with two kids panics in horror when she sees…
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