Author: Dave Franklin
-
Roller Boogie
Tag(s):
Author:
Read more: Roller BoogieDespite only having enough plot for a twenty-minute short, Boogie stretches its ultra-lightweight hijinks out for five times as long. This is just as well.
-
The Virgin Spring
Tag(s):
Author:
Read more: The Virgin SpringI’ve always been wary of Ingmar Bergman. Too intellectual and artsy-fartsy, you know? Sometimes I download one of the Swedish auteur’s flicks only to end up deleting it months later
-
The Blue Lagoon
Tag(s):
Author:
Read more: The Blue LagoonDespite being a much derided actress, I’ve somehow grown fond of Brooke Shields. I quite like her early work
-
Fucked-Up Films #14: Open Season (1974)
Tag(s):
Author:
Read more: Fucked-Up Films #14: Open Season (1974)Some movies are historically important and hugely influential but a chore to sit through
-
1900 (1976)
Tag(s):
Author:
Read more: 1900 (1976)Although the likes of De Niro, Donald Sutherland and Burt Lancaster are faves, I’ve always been a bit disappointed with myself for never getting around to Bernardo Bertolucci’s two-part historical drama.
-
Cocktail
Tag(s):
Author:
Read more: CocktailCruise and his elderly mentor Bryan Brown are such cash-chasing, monumental twats in this massive box-office hit that it’s nigh on impossible to look away.
-
The Pawnbroker
Tag(s):
Author:
Read more: The PawnbrokerAh, what better way to start than the Holocaust? Now, as Schindler’s List showed, Amon Göth leisurely shooting inmates from his balcony was fun, but I’m afraid Hollywood’s first attempt at dealing with this cheeriest of subjects
-
MacBeth
Tag(s):
Author:
Read more: MacBethLady Macbeth (Annis) starts off as the leading force in Polanski’s visceral, demon-confronting box-office bomb.
-
Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks
Tag(s):
Author:
Read more: Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil SheiksAs you know, I’m a fan of Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS, a prime example of tongue-in-cheek Nazisploitation immeasurably helped by Thorne’s vampish outing
-
Officer and a Gentleman
Tag(s):
Author:
Read more: Officer and a GentlemanHaving not long completed a turn as a zombified bitch in 1981’s atmospheric horror flick Dead & Buried, Blount snagged herself a Golden Globe for another death-causing turn in this tremendous romantic drama