Following my screening of His Girl Friday for the DK Books fantastic, The Movie Book. I have moved on to the What Else to Watch section of the title, and dove into the one film amongst it that I had not yet covered, Roman Holiday. Starring Audrey Hepburn, Gregory Peck and Eddie Albert, let me…
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Good Morning, Vietnam (1987) – Barry Levinson
Robin Williams headlines the next film recommendation from the Great Movies – 100 Years of Film book following my screening of Apocalypse Now. After the previous recommendations Good Morning, Vietnam comes across as a little too light and clean a depiction of Vietnam. It is also heavily fictionalised, as Williams’ portrayal of real life Adrian…
Doctor Who (Matt Smith) – Asylum of the Daleks, and Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
Steven Moffat pens the seventh series opener, Asylum of the Daleks, which first aired on 1 September, 2012. The Doctor, Amy (Karen Gillan) and Rory (Arthur Darvill) are travelling together again, and they are about to step into a mystery that is going to be with the Time Lord for a while, the mystery of…
His Girl Friday (1940) – Howard Hawks
The next big title in DK Canada’s The Movie Book, is the incredibly enjoyable Howard Hawks film, His Girl Friday starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell. The film is based on the play The Front Page, with the key change of making one of the leads a woman. From there, history takes over, and the…
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1991) – Night Terrors, and Identity Crisis
Captain’s log: stardate 44631.2 Airing on 18 March, 1991 and penned by Pamela Douglas and Jeri Taylor from a story by Shari Goodhartz, Night Terrors is the kind of episode that would have freaked me out as a kid. I did not handle scary/spooky stories well when I was a child. The Enterprise has tracked…
The Twilight Zone (1964) – An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Queen of the Nile, and What’s in the Box
Things get underway in The Twilight Zone with another trio of episodes this week from The Complete Series, now available on blu-ray from Paramount Pictures. First up is Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. This episode first aired on 28 February, 1964, and was written and directed by Robert Enrico from a story by Ambrose Bierce….
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1991) – First Contact, and Galaxy’s Child
Captain’s log: stardate unknown Marc Scott Zircee came up with the episode’s story that was adapted to teleplay by Dennis Bailey, David Bischoff, Joe Menosky, Ronald D. Moore and Michael Piller. Airing on 18 February, 1991, this Riker (Jonathan Frakes)-centric story puts the strange new worlds shoe on the other foot. Riker is undercover on…
Mother! (2017) – Darren Aronofsky
The cult of celebrity, the ‘ownership’ of fans, the price of love, and the need for peace, privacy, and solace from the madness that is the modern world. Aronofsky’s divisive film, Mother!, comes home on DVD and blu-ray today. Vaguely Lynchian there is the semblance of a ghost story at the heart of the film…
South Park: The Complete Third Season
The fun, comedy, and sheer insanity of what is South Park Season Three blazed across my screen this week, as I delved into The Complete Third Season of the Comedy Central show available now on blu-ray from Paramount Pictures. Over the course of seventeen episodes the small Colorado town of South Park is explored through…
Platoon (1986) – Oliver Stone
Walking away with Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Editing, and Best Sound, Platoon is the next recommendation from the Great Movies – 100 Years of Film following my screening of Apocalypse Now. The film serves as a commentary on the horrors of war, even as two sergeants seem to be fighting for the…
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