It’s no easy ride for these incompetent and bumbling movie heroes… The protagonist of a film usually has some goal they need to achieve, and for the most part, even if they begin way over their head, by the time the film ends, they’ve solved everything and wrapped up the case using their wits and […]
Feel the Heat: Uncomfortably Hot and Sweaty Films
Wipe the sweat from your brow and wring out your sodden shirt with these ten uncomfortably hot and sweaty films… I’m sitting here typing in the middle of a rare UK heatwave. We’re a nation more accustomed to four seasons in one day, who prefer to prepare for the cold with carpets and adequate heating, […]
10 Essential Films From 1975
We journey back half a century to look at ten unmissable films from 1975… We’re now half a century since 1975, an era of American cinema that was incredible. It was also a key year in terms of the first film that really started the ball rolling in shaping the kinds of films audiences would […]
Al Pacino at 80: One of the all time greats
Tom Jolliffe looks back at the career of Al Pacino as he turns 80… Ready your best Al Pacino impression. We’ve all got them. Those usually tend to be Al at his explosive, unrestrained best. Maybe it’s one of several scenes in Heat, or something in his scenery chomping brilliance in Scent of A Woman. […]
The Short Lived Maestro of Second Fiddle: John Cazale
Tom Jolliffe looks back at the career of John Cazale… On the 12th of August, John Cazale would have been 85. Who is John Cazale? Well here’s the thing…A late bloomer in Hollywood, Cazale broke into cinema at the same time as a good friend of his: Al Pacino. Pacino, five years Cazale’s junior, was […]
