First Time Watch #2: Indiana Jones & The Temple of Doom
Do you have those moments when you’re watching a film you swear blind you’d seen before but then realised that you didn’t? This happens very occasionally with me, but this was a big one. Chilled...
View ArticleFirst Time Watch #3: Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
The Western is a genre which is somewhat unique in the way it can be both serious and fun, often at the same time. While some works are defiantly one or the other, The Searchers is a film for which...
View ArticleFirst Time Watch #4: The Devil Rides Out
Hammer are synomonus with classic takes on movie monsters with films such as Dracula: Prince of Darkness and The Curse of Frankenstein picking up the Universal Monsters baton and adding a bit of spice...
View ArticleFirst Time Watch #5: The Friends of Eddie Coyle
One of the fun things about loving a particular medium is the aspect of things being recommended, and this is something which has really grown in prominence for me with the growth of social media and...
View ArticleFirst Time Watch #6: The Last Temptation of Christ
It says something about Martin Scorsese’s balls that after the relative commerical underperformance of The King of Comedy and After Hours that he was still willing to push both himself and the...
View ArticleFirst Time Watch #7 – The Magnificent Ambersons
The second directorial feature effort of Orson Welles’ then young career, watching The Magnificent Ambersons now is a rather troubling experience as while the genius and overwhelming force of...
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