Films @ Dave’s Info Cafe

Well, I did watch it again with my wife this time. It is a film that bears watching again and I appreciated much more the good points of the film. However, I still stand by my comments about the ending. The beginning scenes give you all the clues to the film in a really cinematic [...]

No, I’m not talking about his drunken rants against Jews but the dark side of his more recent films. Has any one noticed that you have to have a fairly strong stomach to watch the films directed by Mel Gibson? Of course you have. You have to wade through a lot of gore. It obviously [...]

1999 was one of my favourite years. I studied film and the cinema for a year at John Leggott sixth form college in Scunthorpe and ended up with an “A” Level in Film Studies. For years I had avidly watched movies at the cinema and on the television and more recently on video. I had even [...]

We all know a great film when we see one don’t we? Well not always. What is a great film to someone may be awful to someone else. Films are very subjective. Citizen Kane leaves film critics in raptures but today’s teenager will wonder what all the fuss is about (and probably hate it to [...]

Ken Loach is one of the most successful and feted British film directors of all time. He has won 64 film awards and been nominated for 38 others. Yet he has never made a “commercial” film nor had box office smash hit. And he always struggles to get finance for his films. He is the [...]

I bought a boxed set of the recent Clint Eastwood movies about the battle for Iwo Jima earlier this week from the local supermarket. I had wanted to see them at the cinema but missed them because there was such a short theatrical release for them particularly in the North East of England. First and [...]

I was watching “Open Range” the other night on television and that got me pondering about the career of Kevin Costner as actor, producer and director. He gave quite a mature performance as Charley Waite the free grazer but he still couldn’t hold a candle to that old scene stealer Robert Duvall. Of course, Costner [...]

This is another Squidoo lens that I am developing about Akira Kurosawa’s films. They complement this blog and allow me to provide information sources based on some of my favourite directors. So please go over to the site and have a look. If you are a Kurosawa fan then you can vote for your favourite film in [...]

I have just set up a lens on Squidoo to provide an information resource on Stanley Kubrick. Squidoo seems to be a good framework for developing an online resource in this way. If you are interested in Kubrick why not click on the link below and you will have access to Kubrick information links, YouTube videos, dvds, [...]

In one of my previous posts I talked about the future of film-making and how easy it is to get started nowadays. Any one with a home video camera and a PC can make a film. Well, it is even easier than that, because any one with a mobile phone (with camera that can take [...]