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12th December 2015 @matcoop 0

The next two blogposts are about a uniquely British trait: whimsy. Local Hero directed by Bill Forsyth is one of the greatest British films of […]

20th November 2015 @matcoop 0

Ah the joys! Stuart Gordon’s From Beyond is a great little film. Very low budget, very odd, based on a seven page HP Lovecraft story […]

14th November 2015 @matcoop 0

Barry Levinson made a really good film about ‘the boys’ chatting. The film was called Diner and is worth seeing. However, he made another film […]

8th November 2015 @matcoop 0

I enjoy classic Hammer and this is by no means classic Hammer. Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb does have a few things to recommend it […]

16th October 2015 @matcoop 0

Walter Hill’s Red Heat was one of the first films from western countries to be shot in Russia back in the 80s, of course it’s […]

10th October 2015 @matcoop 0

I’m a big football fan and support Leeds Utd. I also follow the Premier League very closely, and my brother is a big fan of […]

3rd October 2015 @matcoop 0

Silly, but after writing about Rumblefish, I felt I had to write about The Outsiders. The two films were made back to back by Coppola, […]

20th September 2015 @matcoop 0

I had to check I hadn’t written before about To Live and Die in L.A, it’s a film I have a great fondness for and […]

19th September 2015 @matcoop 0

Don Siegal could direct. He’d been around Hollywood since the golden age. He could edit too, he could cut and shoot, like Dirty Harry, played […]

25th August 2015 @matcoop 0

I can hear you all laughing! But, The Cannonball Run starring Burt Reynolds is a film I grew up with. Released in 1981 and a […]