*contains spoilers It seemed to immediately go pear-shaped with his appearance as a bad-tempered lover in the unremarkable The Young Lovers (1964) which was nothing in terms of quality when compared to his earlier role in star-studded The Interns (1962). By this stage, Nick should have perhaps taken the hint and gone back to television…
Read more The Cult of Actor Nick Adams as The Oedipal Rebel (Part Two)
*contains spoilers When I mention the name of actor Nick Adams (1931-68 drug overdose) to anyone and most people don’t know who I am talking about and cannot picture his face. Yet this is an iconic and troubled actor who was one of the first tv stars to get nominated for an Oscar for his…
Read more The Cult of Actor Nick Adams as The Oedipal Rebel (Part One)
*contains spoilers As we are told at the beginning of Cat-Women of the Moon (1953), mankind knows little about the mysteries of space and has “hardly been able to penetrate the unknown secrets!” This movie asks us “Why must we wait? Why not now?” as the voice of alcoholic actor Sonny Tufts (1911-70 pneumonia) narrates…
Read more The Cult of Actress Marie Windsor in Cat-Women of the Moon (1953)
*contains spoilers Do you know The Three Sisters? No, they are not a wholesome singing group or a Motown invention… Otherwise known as The Three Mothers, they are evil witches from the Dario Argento (1940-) movie Suspiria (1977) and its remake (2018) of the same name… They can invade your mind and give you nightmares,…
Read more The Insidious Witchcraft and Toxic Femininity in Suspiria and its remake
*contains spoilers The best in the original series of Planet of the Apes movies is Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970). It is the most futuristic, the deepest as well as the film with the greatest climax of all of the ape movies – perhaps one of the best of all time… And the…
Read more The Cult of Earth’s Psychic Evolution in Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
*contains spoilers Writer and cartoonist James Thurber (1894-1961 blood clot on the brain) was blinded in one eye by his brother at the age of seven when an arrow was shot into his eye while they played a game of William Tell, that folk hero who could shoot an apple off the top of your…
Read more The Cult of Writer James Thurber’s The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
*contains spoilers I went to my favourite local cinema early to get a ticket for The Father (2020) starring Anthony Hopkins as a man battling dementia and I sat in the deserted Gold Class lounge overlooking the trees across the road. There is a long line of trees and through the windows you cannot see…
Read more Anthony Hopkins and the Spirit of the Ent in The Father (2020)
*contains spoilers The movie Superintelligence (2020) shows us how a person who would otherwise be deemed ‘unremarkable’ could possibly be chosen as a test case over the goodness of humanity to an omnipresent artificial intelligence. This intelligence is weighing up whether to destroy humanity or to save it… Or just leave them to their own…
Read more The Superintelligence (2020) of The Twonky (1953) leads to TerrorVision (1986)
*contains spoilers Fans of Gene Wilder (1933-2016 Alzheimer’s disease) and Zero Mostel (1915-77 heart aneurysm) who appeared together in the Mel Brooks comedy The Producers (1968) are probably not aware of the theatre of the absurd movie version of playwright Eugene Ionesco’s (1909-94) Rhinoceros (1974). While this isn’t a great movie, part of the absurdist…
Read more Actor Gene Wilder in Eugene Ionesco’s Rhinoceros (1974)
*contains spoilers If we jump to Tucker’s The Cape Canaveral Monsters and while that film relates to the space race between superpowers back in the late 1950s, it is still relevant today with each rich nation seeming to be spending money on becoming the first to have a colony on Mars. I bet the Martians…
Read more The Cult of Director Phil Tucker’s The Cape Canaveral Monsters (Part Two)
