Four Frames: Mandy (Panos Cosmatos, 2018)
There are those convinced George Lucas only ever dreamed up Star Wars so he could sell spin-off toys to kids….
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Four Frames: Deliverance (John Boorman, 1972)
James Dickey’s novel opens with a map being unrolled. Disconcerting – “curling and snapping back whenever one of us turned…
Opening Up: Back to the Cinema
We’re all opening up, ready to get back to it – doin’ the things that we want to. Like the…
Screengem: The bridge in The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean, 1957)
Spare a thought for Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness) in David Lean’s World War II drama, at the mercy of his…
Four Frames: The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Peter Yates, 1973)
You’ve got to have friends. “Keep your friends close but your enemies closer.” We all need to know who our…
Four Frames: The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges, 1941)
Shakespeare told us love is blind, although there are those who insist he stole it from Chaucer. It is Preston…
Screengem: The spittoon in Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1959)
Old pals John Wayne (as Sheriff John T. Chance) and Ward Bond (as Pat Wheeler, soon to be murdered, shot…
Four Frames: The Irishman (Martin Scorsese, 2019)
MATTHEW 25, 6: And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him….
THOUSAND WORDS: I Don’t like Netflix (oh no – I love it)
I AM NOT anti-Netflix. Of course not. Let’s face it – without Netflix, we wouldn’t have Roma. What’s that? Have…
