*contains spoilers Writer Daphne du Maurier (1907-89 heart failure) wrote a kind of loose trilogy of novels set in Cornwall in South West England which were turned into movies and they were Jamaica Inn (1939), Rebecca (1940) and Frenchman’s Creek (1944). Alfred Hitchcock directed two of these titles – Jamaica Inn and Rebecca – while…
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*contains spoilers The singer David Bowie (1947-2016 liver cancer) arrived on the scene officially in 1967 with his song The Laughing Gnome which was the same year the Amicus Productions movie The Terrornauts (1967) was released on a double bill with They Came from Beyond Space (1967) in Bowie’s home country of Great Britain. The…
Read more Cult Movie The Terrornauts (1967) and the stage name of David Bowie
My name is Josh and my cock is very uncircumcised or uncut. I hope I can be in the movies one day and take my clothes off to show what I’m made of. It’s not a long cock and people might say my loose brown foreskin is ugly…. But I’ve had girls who say it’s…
Read more Act Four: Why My Uncut Cock is Best for the Movies!
*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 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)
“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
*contains spoilers “Fraulein, would you like to watch Die Nibelungen Saga (1924) tonight, or The Power (1967)?,” the Nietzschean Nazi skinhead asked to the gay transgender or transvestite prostitute who he accidentally picked up in a scene right out of The Kinks song Lola… Eddie Murphy gave one “a ride home” one evening! … Yes,…
Read more The Nietzschean Superman’s Cross to Bear in The Power (1967) Part One
