BY ANDREW MOODY “Had the Weinsteins been born seventy five years earlier, they might have been found running numbers on Hester Street, bootlegging whiskey, or sitting across a card table from Louis Lepke, the head of Murder Incorporated.” In the years following Miramax producer Harvey Weinstein’s arrest, trial and conviction for sex offences, Hollywood has been in a state of free fall. Weinstein was arrested … Continue reading Down & Dirty Pictures
BY ANDREW MOODY “The only good bug is a dead bug!” In its own time, (the late 1990s) Paul Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers was initially a critical and commercial failure. Twenty five years later, and thanks to the film’s deeply loyal, obsessive fan base (primarily sustained on the internet) Starship Troopers has now been widely judged as one of the most misunderstood movies in Hollywood history. … Continue reading Starship Troopers
BY SARAH GREENWOOD A note follows from Sarah to Dai Bradley (pictured twice below), who played Billy Casper in Barry Hines’ film ‘Kes’. Sarah met Dai/Billy at a showing of Hines’ film The Gamekeeper in Barnsley last month. Ay up Billy! Asta got tahm for a chat? A’ just want t’ clear summat up after that talk we ‘ed ‘t’other neet. at’t Civic It wor … Continue reading The Gamekeeper Revisited
BY ANDREW MOODY There has been some recent debate within Hollywood about the merits, (positive or negative) surrounding the industry’s focus on making Marvel Superhero films, especially given their popularity within the millennial generation. Nobody has been more outspoken than fabled film director Martin Scorsese, who after an October 2019 interview for UK film magazine Empire, was forced to write a follow up in November … Continue reading Scorsese on Marvel
BY ANDREW MOODY “What’s your favourite scary movie?” For those who became sentient in the rock and roll nineties, not even the re-releases of A Clockwork Orange, and The Exorcist in 1999 could compete with horror masterpiece Scream (1996), and it’s extraordinary, enormous influence. One of my deepest regrets (along with knowing the ending of Hitchcock’s Psycho), is allowing my sister to tell me the … Continue reading Scream
BY ANDREW MOODY When I was six years old, my Dad took me to see Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Like Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), the first of the Indy films, the movie concerned a race to discover a biblical artefact (in Raiders it was the Ark of the Covenant, in Last Crusade it was the Holy Grail) before the Nazis could … Continue reading Another Indiana Jones Movie?
