Cinophile: A BOY AND HIS DOG
The post-apocalypse comes in many forms. You get the dystopian future stuff (Akira, Equilibrium, 1984), the Machine Dawn (Terminator, The Matrix), Extinction (Planet of the Apes), Disease (28 Days...
View ArticleCinophile: THE TRUMAN SHOW
Today it is hard to believe there was once not such a thing as reality TV. The genre has been around in some form for nearly as long as television, but mostly took the form of documentaries or talent...
View ArticleCinophile: FOR Y’UR HEIGHT ONLY
Let’s talk the worst movie you have ever seen, as in the best worst. Not some dreary drama or utterly jokeless comedy. No, those films that stand alone for their exceptional brand of ridiculous...
View ArticleCinophile: BUBBA HO-TEP
Growing old is tough… unless you are Bruce Campbell. The legendary actor has always had an interesting career: from cult icon to scraping the bottoms of B-movie barrels to lately enjoying quite a...
View ArticleCinophile: LAST MAN STANDING
From samurai to cowboys to prohibition gangsters – the double-cross never gets old. This year marks half a century since Sergio Leone’s game-changing Western A Fistful of Dollars was released. It set...
View ArticleCinophile: ABCs OF DEATH
Anthology films are great. Not every tale needs to be told in ninety minutes or more, so a movie that combines a number of cinematic short stories can go down well. Three is the most common number of...
View ArticleCinophile: NINJA IN THE DRAGON’S DEN
The ninja sub-genre is for the most pretty sad. Kung fu films have since the Seventies – with a big debt to 36 Chambers of Shaolin – evolved into a spectacular display of action. But Japanese martial...
View ArticleCinophile: THE ROOKIE
Let’s not try and dress a turd here: The Rookie was for the most a bad idea. Clint Eastwood’s only buddy cop piece in a directorial career spanning nearly forty movies, he took it on in exchange for...
View ArticleCinophile: MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL
Many have adapted the myth of King Arthur into movies. But how many contained killer rabbits, ‘flesh wounds’ and instructions for Holy Hand Grenades? 1975 was a watershed period for Monty Python, the...
View ArticleCinophile: The Top 10 So Far
This is it, folks, the final act. After writing well over a hundred columns for this series, I need to take a break. Cinophile is not stopping, but it is going away for a sabbatical. Writing about...
View ArticleCinophile: BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA
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View ArticleCinophile: BADLANDS
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View ArticleCinophile: IDIOCRACY
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View ArticleCinophile: THE EVIL DEAD
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View ArticleCinophile: MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE
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View ArticleCinophile: BARTON FINK
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View ArticleCinophile: LOCKE
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View ArticleCinophile: AMERICAN SPLENDOR
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View ArticleCinophile: THEY LIVE
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View ArticleCinophile: BATTLE ROYALE
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