*contains spoilers I took out the apostrophe from the Halperin Brothers White Zombie in the title because I think they are just as important as The United Nations Building and the Mark Wahlberg movie Patriots Day (2016) which also copped flak from journalists who went in a tizz for dropping the apostrophe… Chicago-born director Victor…
Read more The Halperin Brothers White Zombie and Aftermath (Part One)
*contains spoilers When we talk of pansexuality today, it was a term which did not really exist back in the late 1960s when labels were more or less limited in their descriptions of gender and sexuality. It comes as a surprise though that the film The Fox (1967), which was directed by Mark Rydell (1929-)…
Read more The Pansexuality of D.H. Lawrence’s The Fox (1967)
*contains spoilers There is a film I’ve seen a great number of times because I like the plot and I like the look and personality of its young star despite the fact she is not a great actress. She is great anyway! The film is the little-known Prime Risk (1985) and the actress is Toni…
*contains spoilers This article looks at the back end of comic genius Groucho Marx’s (1890-1977 pneumonia) later career around the end of the comedy team that was the Marx Brothers. They made over a dozen features together. Groucho starred in a few films without his brothers Chico (1887-1961 arteriosclerosis) and Harpo Marx (1888-1964 after heart…
*contains spoilers There is a movie which will become more important as the years pass… should we not correct the environment… as a premonition of things to come. The film is The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961), a fictional account of how the world, after the detonation of a couple of large atomic bombs,…
Read more The Climate Change Irony of The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1962)
*contains spoilers Farrah Fawcett (1947-2009 anal cancer) or Farrah Fawcett-Majors, as she was known for a spell, was one of Charlie’s Angels (tv series 1976, 78-80) who hoped to kick-start a film career in the late 1970s and early 80s. She failed but the results are far from disgraceful. Married to the Six Million Dollar…
*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 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 Who knows who has murdered who? It’s all a mystery as Hauser presses down on Ryan … Is it a frame? Hauser was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award as well and it is probably the best performance of his career as he drinks hard, smokes pot in his office and tops off…
*contains spoilers Faith Domergue’s dark beauty shone for a short time in the mid-1950s. She became a star when most women were thought to be past their prime. She survived being a plaything of Howard Hughes and although never a fully-fledged star, or a great actress, she still made her mark in the movies. Faith…
