Last night Fliss and I watched the film version of Michael Frayn‘s Noises Off. Fliss explained to me that it is a film beloved of theatre technicians due to it’s setting, following the goings on behind stage of a dysfunctional group of actors performing a classic English farce. The film version stars Michael Caine and [...]
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Film Review: Dark Star
As part of our wandering approach exploring film rental the latest instalment to drop on the door mat was John Carpenter‘s Dark Star. It’s a weird black comedy about a bunch of bored stoners, some sentient bombs and strange beach ball aliens aboard a deep space planetary destroyer. As it was Carpenter’s first film, and [...]
Crystal Aliens!?
Despite less the glowing reviews we thought we would chance Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull at the cinema. It’s not the worlds worst film, in fact if you disengage brain and enjoy it for what it is I thought it was pretty good. Some people have complained about the mixing of [...]
