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Chinatown

13th September 2015 @matcoop 0

Robert Towne wrote Chinatown, The Last Detail, Shampoo, The Parallax View and worked without credit as ghost writer on what could be literally hundreds of […]

The Fog

12th September 2015 @matcoop 0

John Carpenter is one of my favourite directors, his films are boyish fun. I will blog about Halloween, In the Mouth of Madness, Escape from […]

The Cannonball Run

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 […]

Touch Of Evil

7th August 2015 @matcoop 0

I’m a big fan of Orson Welles, and probably Touch of Evil is my favourite film made by Welles. One of the great things now, […]

Family Style

31st July 2015 @matcoop 0

In this blogpost, part of my series on 100 films you must see, I’m going to write about one of my own bits of work. […]

Full Metal Jacket

26th July 2015 @matcoop 0

Full Metal Jacket was released in 1987 when I was still at school. I must have caught up with it on VHS video after it […]

The Sopranos

18th July 2015 @matcoop 0

I seem to have gone down the road of writing about a lot of gangster movies. My favourite film critic David Thompson has identified that […]

American Gangster

18th July 2015 @matcoop 0

The script for American Gangster had been knocking around for years, and people didn’t really want to make it until Ridley Scott came onboard. I […]

Super 8

12th July 2015 @matcoop 0

I like Super 8 because it reminds me of my youth making super 8mm cine films with a small group of like minded friends. It […]

Sexy Beast

11th July 2015 @matcoop 0

I watched this again recently, it’s a real actor’s film (although it’s not clear who the Sexy Beast of the title is) Winstone has never […]