*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…
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*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…
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*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)
*contains spoilers Playwright and occasional screenwriter Arthur Miller (1915-2005 bladder cancer) was, of course, married for several years to troubled actress Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962 sleeping pill overdose). He tried to save her but she either didn’t want to, or was unable to, save herself. He wrote the classic plays Death of a Salesman and The…
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*contains spoilers Name: MikeAge: 76 Occupation: Retired Executive Favourite Movie: Last of the Mohicans (1992) Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, Wes Studi, and Jodhi May First Saw it: At one of the large theatres in Leicester Square in London when it was first released. Plot: Sweeping fiction and love story set against the backdrop of…
Read more My Cult Movie: “…it was very sweeping and rugged…”
*contains spoilers Director Michael Mann (1943-) is well known for his film Heat (1995) starring Al Pacino and Robert de Niro. The film is seen as so iconic, every minute of its well over two and a half hour running time has been picked to pieces – incredibly even minute by minute – in podcasts.…
*contains spoilers The first killings happen in the first few minutes before Ringo learns the Fuentes Brothers have declared his former town Mexican Territory and do more or less what they like to subjugate the citizens. Ringo’s subliminal anger about all this is shown only by a small twitch in his eye. He is cool…
*contains spoilers Those who are fans of The Dollars Trilogy – A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) – are fans of the spaghetti western even if they have not seen any others beyond them and the associated movie Once Upon a…
