Rocketman- Elton Hercules John! - As I alluded to in a recent post there is a plethora of music homage movies set for release in 2019, Rocketman is one such feature which centers on the musical-life of Elton John. This review does contain spoilers so…
The Happy Prince – Oscar Wilde (adapted and directed by Orson Welles) - When I was a child, I used to play this record incessantly. Today, as a 45 year old man, it still brings a tear to my eye! It remains the most beautiful and heart-wrenching fable I have ever had the…
Music homage films abound in 2019 (Beatles, Springsteen, Elton John & Bob Dylan) - After the big box-office smash hit Bohemian Rhapsody, film studios must have been wiping the dust off dozens of musical homage scripts faster than they could sing: ‘We will, we will rock you!’. Yesterday and Blinded By The Light In…
The Master (2012) – Paul Thomas Anderson - Lancaster Dodd: I am a writer, a doctor, a nuclear physicist and a theoretical philosopher. But above all, I am a man, a hopelessly inquisitive man, just like you. While Paul Thomas Anderson’s film catalogue may not be expansive his…
Lost Horizon (1937) – Frank Capra - Along with Woody Allen’s Sleeper, Lost Horizon is another movie recommended to me by fellow blogger Badfinger20. It is a Frank Capra film based on the 1933 novel of the same name by James Hilton. IMDB storyline: British diplomat Robert…
Full Index of Movies and TV
- Rocketman- Elton Hercules John!
- The Happy Prince – Oscar Wilde (adapted and directed by Orson Welles)
- Music homage films abound in 2019 (Beatles, Springsteen, Elton John & Bob Dylan)
- The Master (2012) – Paul Thomas Anderson
- Lost Horizon (1937) – Frank Capra
- Sleeper (1973) – Woody Allen
- Reflections on the ‘Who Killed JFK’ article
- A little known Australian movie called ‘Candy’ and Tim Buckley’s ‘Song to the Siren’
- Mandy – An art-house supernatural horror trip
- Crikey! ‘That’s a tough mother bleepin’ wooden door’
- Could watching the Phantom Thread become a *new* New Year’s tradition?
- Roma – A Latino Cinematic Masterpiece (2018)
- Moneyball and Wallstreet
- Keep On Sleeping With Ham Sarris #1 – Against Empathy (With Plaul Boom)
- I think Neil deGrasse Tyson just invented Intellectual Porn
- The greatest cover up in history – The unheralded Robert Zimmerman
- Did the RIO Olympics Deliver?
- Hail, Caesar! – A playful but unrealised Coen Brothers romp
- Bridge of Spies (2015) – Steven Spielberg
- Heaven Knows What (2014)
- The Wonder Years and ‘Catch The Wind’
- 20 Seconds of Insane Courage
- Another Earth (2011) What is it about?
- Love is Strange – A Movie You Shouldn’t Miss
- The greatest Larry David interview anyone could hope for
- Transformational Leadership at its most potent – Gandhi
- “It’s like a big ship… and the water’s on fire.” Tom Waits on David Letterman
- Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) – Woody Allen
- Blue is the Warmest Colour
- ‘Being There’ – A fairly solid depressing tale but not an overly satisfying one.
- Manhattan – A stupendous movie about dating and relationships
- Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
- Sigur Rós – Njósnavélin (The Nothing Song) and Cameron Crowe
- Smiles of a Summer Night (1955) Ingmar Bergman
- Who Killed JFK? The Kennedy Assassination – Beyond Conspiracy
- The Lego Movie. Be Wary of the Hype.
- Inside Llewyn Davis – The Coen Brothers
- Chrysler and Bob Dylan Super Bowl Commercial 2014
- Interesting Reactions to the ‘The Oscars has lost all respectability’ post
- ‘The Oscars’ has lost all ounce of respectability as a serious award contest.
- Jerry Seinfeld – All Awards are Stupid
- Comedy and the Ages. Lenny Bruce, Charles Bukowski and Hunter S Thompson
- Winter Light (1963) – Ingmar Bergman
- ‘Love and Theft’ – American Hustle (2013)
- Ingmar Bergman and Wild Strawberries
- Barton Fink (Coen Brothers) – A Screenplay Masterpiece
