by Martin | Jul 8, 2018 | movies, reviews
A CAT IN THE BRAIN It may seem an odd thing to say of a film called A Cat In The Brain but – inured as I am to disappointment in such matters (almost counting on it, you might say) – the last thing I expected to see in it was a cat clawing at...
by Martin | Jun 10, 2018 | movies, reviews
THE SAILOR WHO FELL FROM GRACE WITH THE SEA (1976) ‘An insult to any audience’ concludes the review of Lewis John Carlino’s film The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea (hereafter referred to as Sailor) in my damaged-in-transit...
by Martin | May 7, 2018 | movies, reviews
I like to think that there is no such thing as a bad film. Philosophically speaking, there is no such thing as a film at all, since films only ‘really’ exist in the watching of them, and this is done by people, and no two people will experience precisely...
by Martin | Apr 8, 2018 | movies, reviews
COLD-BLOODED BEAST (1971) 88 Films’ Italian Collection yields this giallo in which a masked murderer stalks an all-female (the patients not the staff) mental institution but the occupants are all too busy playing with themselves and each other to notice, at...
by Martin | Mar 24, 2018 | movies, reviews
GOD’S OWN COUNTRY (2017) Brexit – is it humanity asserting its freedom to be perverse in the face of global capitalism, or is it just a backward-leaning movement composed of people whose preciousness about their ‘British identity’ makes you wonder...
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