Mona Lisa the film was nominated for an Oscar and Bob Hoskins performance won many other awards. It tells the tale of a man released from prison who is given a job as a driver for an up-market prostitute. It’s very London - though, the seedy side thereof. The film is well shot and shows […]
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Trainspotting was incredibly famous for being really disgusting and nearly getting banned. You get to see Ewan McGregor’s tackle and a baby’s head spinning round like on the exorcist. It was like gold dust to young teens at the time - the most horrifying film available. My friend managed to one-up us all by reading […]
I watched “How to Get Ahead in Advertising” for the first time last night. Everything about it is so Eighties - the discontentment with the rat race, the power-suiting secretary, the smoking indoors and the Range Rover in the middle of London.
Richard E. Grant plays the madman very well indeed and that boil is absolutely […]
Several hundred thousand boys have spent several hundred thousand hours rewinding this scene to check whether you actually see anything. Stupid, really, considering they could just go out and get a girlfriend, but this scandalous moment made Basic Instinct and Sharon Stone’s career (and confirmed my suspicion that Michael Douglas is creepy).
Moonwalker - Michael Jackson
Posted in 1980s, Movies, Music, Personalities, US & Canada on Apr 29th, 2008
Moonwalker was released in 1999 as a strange way of linking together a string of Michael Jackson’s songs. It was a success and feature in a number of Christmas repeats to this day.
All I really remember about this film is the scene where Michael Jackson takes on the now embattled Wesley Snipes in a pop […]
Indiana Jones
Posted in 1930s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Movies, Rest of World, UK & Ireland, US & Canada on Apr 16th, 2008
Christmas would not be complete without repeats of this fantastic series of films. There are so many memorable moments, the Chinese orphan, Short Round, driving a car with boxes tied to his feet in Temple of Doom, the fight next to aeroplane propellers in Raiders of the Lost Ark and the infamous Venice boat chase […]
George Formby - When I’m Cleaning Windows
Posted in 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Movies, Music, Personalities on Apr 13th, 2008
George Formby was born George Hoy Booth on 26 May 1904 in Wigan, Lancashire. He started out as a professional jockey because his father didn’t want his son to follow him into showbusiness. Once his Father died, George went into stand-up. He bought a ukelele from an actor for £2.50 with a bet that he […]
Monty Python
Posted in 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Movies, T.V. Shows on Mar 14th, 2008
The pythons were: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin and they broadcast on the BBC from 1969 to 1974. Their madcap approach to comedy broke all the boundaries and they were as controversial as they were successful.
If I could, I would play every Python episode and film in […]
The first James Bond film to hit the screens, Doctor No changed the course of movie-making for the rest of the century. Unutterably cool, calm and collected, the gentleman killer-spy
Enter the Dragon was almost as life-changing for 70’s kids as James Bond. Dangerous, exotic and full of epic fight scenes, Bruce Lee’s films marked a new era for the West -martial arts had arrived. Everyone wanted to learn Kung-Fu or Karate. Kids all over Europe and America sought the secrets and mastery of Chinese […]
“Flash! Flash! I love you! But we only have fourteen hours to save the Earth!” Biggest, best, camp intergalactic quest -ever. Squeaky rubber outfits, flying hawk-men led by Brian Blessed, Ming the Merciless, monsters, green blood, ladies in outrageously skimpy get-ups -Flash Gordon has it all. Most famous for two things:
the fight for the Earth […]
Remember the fighting skeletons? The Hydra guarding the Golden Fleece? The Crashing Rocks that threaten to smash Jason’s boat to pieces and the giant sea monster that holds them apart?
I remember watching the Sinbad films on a weekend. I always thought the creatures were really funny because they didn’t move properly and the special effects were always shaky, when in fact they were ground breaking in their time -created by the same man who did special effects for Jason and the Argonauts.
Clueless
Posted in 1990s, Movies, Rest of World, UK & Ireland, US & Canada on Feb 17th, 2008
Clueless typifies teenage girls in the 90’s. Well, how every girl wanted to be in the nineties anyway. For some reason, I always thought that Alicia Silverstone (who plays the main character Cher) was the same actress as Joan Hart (who plays Clarissa and Sabrina, the Teenage Witch). Compare these two images yourselves.
Every young teenage […]
Jurassic Park
Posted in 1990s, Movies, US & Canada on Feb 13th, 2008
How many times have you seen that glass-of-water-scene recreated since Jurassic Park came out in 1993? Responsible for the nightmares of a whole generation of ten-year-olds, this uber-blockbuster was a great excuse to show people getting eaten by dinosaurs. The most horrifying part was when the guy got eaten whilst on the toilet and the […]