Everyone loves gangster films, James Cagney, Paul Muni, and Humphrey Bogart lit up the silver screen for years portraying some of the toughest mugs in cinema, but director Alan Parker took a decidedly different angle with Bugsy Malone, the entire cast consists of children averaging twelve years of age and also it’s a musical, and…
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Robin Williams – Top 10 Films R.I.P.
It came as a shock to read that Robin Williams had passed today, and unfortunately it seems he lost the battle with his inner demons and took his own life, making it all the more tragic. To Honour him, here’s my top 10 favorite Robin Williams Films (It’s very difficult to pick just…
Time Travel and The Terminator Movies
In the genre of science fiction time travel has to be one of the tougher story elements to write – cause and effect dancing your characters close to the edge of paradox is tricky stuff – but many filmmakers still line up to give it a shot, with some doing excellent takes on this trope…
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) – Review
And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon and his name was Michael Bay. Okay, maybe I’m being a bit hyperbolic here, Michael Bay is not the Anti-Christ, but he did cause Armageddon. It’s easy to take cheap shots…
Phantom of the Paradise (1974) – Review
Brian De Palma’s Phantom of the Paradise is a hard movie to classify, it’s not really a musical but it is chock full of music, it’s not a straight horror film because who the actual monster turns out to be is not who you’d expect and it’s darkly satiric, but what Phantom of the Paradise is…