*** POSSIBLE MINOR SPOILERS *** Note – Before I begin I’d recommend watching all of Breaking Bad before watching El Camino. Do TV movie spin-offs work? Films normally introduce new… Continue reading "El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019)."
At the time of its release a lot was written about Martin Scorsese’s most successful film The Wolf of Wall Street. Much of it about the record number of words beginning with the letter F,… Continue reading "The Wolf Of Wall Street (2013)."
Two Jesuit priests (Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver) are told a rumour suggesting that their mentor, Cristóvão Ferreira (Liam Neeson), who had travelled to Japan to spread the gospel, has… Continue reading "Silence (2016)."
Skybound Entertainment’s release of the entire Telltale Games’ Walking Dead saga is bittersweet. This series, as a whole, epitomises the legacy of a now dead studio. It’s an uneven collection… Continue reading "Telltale’s The Walking Dead: The Definitive Edition (2019)."
Over thirty years ago director Mamoru Oshii and artist Yoshitaka Amano created a seventy-one minute short film with little plot, even less dialogue, and with such little broader appeal that… Continue reading "Angel’s Egg (1985)."
In Episode 35 of The Film ‘89 Podcast we go all out action as we explore in-depth, one of the most beloved franchises of the 1980s and beyond. Starting with… Continue reading "The Film ‘89 Podcast Episode 35 – From First Blood to Last Blood, The John Rambo Saga (1982 – 2019)."
For me, Raiders of the Lost Ark is peak cinema. It is unequivocally one of the greatest movies ever made, one that embraced all the miraculous possibilities of film promised… Continue reading "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)."
Author Stephen King is an institution. He’s been working for five decades, writing 61 novels, a number of short story and novella collections, memoirs, and screenplays (a total of 85 published books to date… Continue reading "The Institute by Stephen King (2019)."
There is a certain pleasure that comes from watching a Jackie Chan movie. There are bigger and often better action films out there and there are funnier comedies, but few… Continue reading "Police Story (1985)."
This in the first of a (possible) series of film retrospectives in which I watch for the first time, a long-time favorite of a podcaster I admire. The first shot… Continue reading "Against All Odds (1984)."
