*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 It was in the wake of citizen Bernhard Goetz (1947-) shooting in ‘self-defence’ four teenage criminals on a subway in New York in December of 1984 which had him dubbed The Subway Vigilante – a scene which seems to have been totally inspired by a scene in the first movie – which led…
Read more The Cult of Personal Vengeance in the Death Wish Movies (Part Two)
*contains spoilers “Ants communicate by chemicals,” according to an actual quote by Stanford University professor Deborah M. Gordon and this is reinforced by director Bert I Gordon’s (1922-) – yes Mr BIG himself – Empire of the Ants (1977) where once again we have a nuclear link, this time nuclear waste polluting the ocean and…
Read more The Cult and Atonement of The Ant Bully but not Them! (1954) Part Two
*contains spoilers Let’s turn to the nature of an organised society and how it is impossible and cumbersome on our corrupt level as human beings to manage one – whereas the humble ant waits to inherit the world from us as we poison nature and ourselves as the ant’s natural order proves to be more…
Read more The Cult and Atonement of The Ant Bully but not Them! (1954) Part One
*contains spoilers Female Trouble is not as funny nor as outrageous as Pink Flamingos or his other contemplation of ostracism and criminality Desperate Living (1977) but it still contains full frontal male nudity or that other visual sin, an aging and naked female body. The shock factor has made way for social commentary about the…
Read more The Filthy Genius of Director John Waters and THAT actress Divine (Part Two)
*contains spoilers And now for something completely different… Beyond the unisex toilet where whatever wants to go as well as being a part of or watching Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) while the rest go over the rainbow… We have the original midnight movie cult of director John Waters (1946-) and transvestite actress…
Read more The Filthy Genius of Director John Waters and THAT actress Divine (Part One)
*contains spoilers I’ve been going frequently to the cinema of late – I went twice last year – but this year in Australia I’ve already been a couple of dozen times. The results aren’t encouraging in terms of product or the number of patrons going during the week. The movies they show have been pretty…
Read more Is Cinema and Old Hollywood Dead? Long Live the 75-inch Smart TV!
*contains spoilers There is a science fiction movie out there which is already a cult movie to those who know it and it is called The Space Children (1958). Yet its innocence in this world sees it barely rate a four on the IMDb as it tells of a future on Earth perhaps saved from…
Read more The Cult of Divine Intervention in The Space Children (1958)
