Sorcerer aka Wages of Fear
William Friedkin’s Sorcerer is also known as Wages of Fear elsewhere in the world. Fot a long while this film was impossible to see and […]
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The Prestige
Funnily enough, I’m not a massive fan of Christopher Nolan’s films. I like the Batman stuff well enough, but I found Inception to be almost […]
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Okay, so this is now the newest film I’ve blogged about in this list of 100 movies. I waited until I’d seen it twice to […]
Deadly Pursuit
A Facebook friend reminded me of this great movie from 1988. Known as Shoot to Kill in USA, the European title Deadly Pursuit has made […]
Breaking Away
I wrote a little web series about growing up called Dylan Ogden which you can find on this website on my script writing samples page. […]
Johnny Handsome
There’s a line between Walter Hill, Sam Peckinpah and Don Siegel, all of whom I’ve blogged about before. Don started out making montages for films […]
The Indian Runner
I’m trying hard to avoid writing about the obvious films you must see, and I’m hoping to pick some films that you may not have […]
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
Okay, last blogpost for Christmas and I’m not going for It’s A Wonderful Life, Elf, Scrooge, Scrooged or Miracle on 34th Street. No, no…I’m going […]
Hear My Song
Whimsy? I can’t write about whimsy without mentioning Hear My Song. I was lucky enough to meet director Peter Chelsom and talk to him about […]