Revisiting the dustiest films on the shelf
Here we are then, the final reader recommendation list for By The Decade, and it’s another good one.
I’m going to keep this brief and go back over some lists for a sort of By The Decade roundup at a later date (you can find them all right here), but until then here are my choices from the 2010s and your picks are below…
Continue reading “By The Decade: Your Films From The… Teenies?”First thing’s first, I wasn’t sure what to call this decade, so teenies it is. If anyone has a better suggestion, I’ll use it for the reader recommendations.
If you been following By The Decade for the last few weeks, you know how this works – they don’t necessarily have to be the best films of the decade, or even your favourites, just films that mean something to you.
You can catch up from the 1930s to the 2000s right here, and I’ll add this week’s reader recommendations over the weekend.
Until then, here are my five selections from the 2010s…
Continue reading “By The Decade: 5 From The… Teenies?”Directed by Jake Kasdan
Continue reading “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)”“Oh my goodness, I’ve halved myself!”
Pretty great response to the penultimate By The Decade, but then I shouldn’t have expected anything less – well done, everybody!
If you’ve missed the By The Decade story to date, click here for all of my suggestions and the recommendations of all our readers from the 1930s to the 2000s.
Speaking of the 2000s, here are some of the best films of that decade according to Late Reviewer readers…
Continue reading “By The Decade: Your Films Of The Noughties”After a couple of bumper weeks for By The Decade (who knew the readers of film blogs would have such great affection for movies of the 1980s and 1990s?!), we’ve arrived at the turn of the 21st Century.
To keep things a little neater, I’ve chosen five films from the 2000s, and as always they’re not the best films of the decade, but films I enjoyed or have a connection with.
Continue reading “By The Decade: 5 From The Noughties”
As this post is dealing with a brand new film, it’s not technically a Late Review – which means there won’t be any spoilers to worry about!
Tonight, I visited the cinema for the first time since March 2020, for a screening of Censor (2021) – a film I knew virtually nothing about.
I’ve deliberately avoided trailers, articles and interviews about the movie, and knew only that it dealt in some way with the Video Nasty era and could be considered a horror movie.
It’s difficult to say too much about the plot without giving anything away. Not that it’s a constant domino effect of trickery and surprises, I just think it’s better to go into this film as cold as possible and let the atmosphere pull you in.
And it’ll do that.
Continue reading “A few thoughts on Censor (2021)”
There’s been another great response to this week’s By The Decade, and the recommendations cover pretty much every genre you can think of!
I got the impression that if it was tough to choose a shortlist of films from the 1970s and 1980s, the 1990s was even harder. Doubly so if you were trying to avoid the blockbusters, but you guys managed it with some really great suggestions.
As always, you can catch up with all of the By The Decade pieces in their very own section of the site, but here are the recommendations you lovely people offered for movies from the 1990s.
Continue reading “By The Decade: Your Recommendations From The 1990s”
Here we go with another By The Decade post to help broaden my cinematic horizons and welcome your recommendations from a specific era – the last two weeks especially have thrown out some really great suggestions, and I think this one will be great too.
Following the previous 3 From The 30s, 4 From The 40s, 5 From The 50s, 6 From The 60s, 7 From The 70s and 8 From The 80s posts, we’ve had brilliant suggestions from readers for their favourite films from the 1930s, the 1940s, the 1950s, the 1960s, the 1970s, and the 1980s.
I’ll be honest, the choices I’ve made this week are not my favourite films from that decade, they’re certainly not the best films of the decade, and I’m well aware they’re incredibly mainstream and obvious.
I guess that’s a disclaimer of sorts, but this isn’t a judgemental place, so feel free to shout up with some of your top films from the 1990s, whether you feel they’re respected or not!
Continue reading “By The Decade: 9 From The Nineties”Directed by Yuen Woo-Ping
Continue reading “Drunken Master (1978)”“You’re supposed to be a teacher, you’d break a gorilla in half!”
Well I thought last week’s look at the cinema of the 1970s featured some great (and difficult) choices, but this week’s By The Decade turned out to be just as tricky.
Whether it’s something to do with the demographics on social media, or just certain films being cultural touchstones, I don’t know. More to the point, I don’t really care, because there are some tremendous films on here, including some I had simply never heard of but would love to seek out.
You can catch up on all the previous By The Decade entries here, but right now, let’s look at your choices from the 1980s!
Continue reading “By The Decade: Your Favourite Films Of The 1980s”