One of my great passions in movies is to watch epic films. You know the ones – grand scale, sweeping visuals and action and heroic stories. A good epic film needs the big screen to fit in the cast of thousands and the panoramic view of the action. There have been many epics made over [...]
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Learning about Cinema
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 [...]
Pop Music Films – Are The Kids Alright?
Why is it that you don’t see any decent films about pop music any more? In the sixties and seventies there were films like Woodstock, Monterey Pop, The Kids Are Alright and numerous other commercial films covering either pop music events or the rock lifestyle. I suppose the easy answer is that we are in [...]
The Expansion of Violence
It is quite common now to see graphic violence in films. You can even watch it on prime time television in the UK – just sit through a few episodes of Rome. We are used to going to the cinema now and seeing buckets of blood and gore, limbs and heads being hacked or sawed [...]
Letters and Flags from Clint
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 [...]
300 or The 300 Spartans?
I’ve just been taken back to my childhood this afternoon. “The 300 Spartans” has been shown on ITV1. A friend and I saw this at one of the cinemas in Scunthorpe (my home town) when I was 11 during a wonderful and formative time in my life. I guess this latest TV showing is tied [...]
Zombies at Dawn
I am not a great fan of film remakes as they rarely live up to the original but when I heard that George Romero’s cult classic “Zombies – Dawn of the Dead” (or better, Zombies at Woolworth’s) was to be remade then my ears pricked up a little. I first tried to see the original [...]
