Written and directed by Jim Jarmusch

Continue reading “Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai (1999)”“I’m your retainer. I don’t mean you no disrespect. Sorry, I don’t want to put too many holes in you.”
Revisiting the dustiest films on the shelf
Written and directed by Jim Jarmusch
Continue reading “Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai (1999)”“I’m your retainer. I don’t mean you no disrespect. Sorry, I don’t want to put too many holes in you.”
Here we are again then, with the latest By The Decade piece to help expand my cinematic horizons and discover new films from eras I might not be overly familiar with.
Following on from my 3 From The 30s and 4 From The 40s entries, you wonderful readers made loads of great suggestions on films to check out from the 1930s and the 1940s. You might already have noticed I’ve created a special little section of the site so they’re all bunched together, make it easier to find them all in one place too.
Here we go then, with a few of my favourites from the fifties…
Continue reading “By The Decade: 5 From The Fifties”I’m always a little wary of putting these pieces out there when I’m asking for film recommendations, but the reaction to the first By The Decade piece has been really brilliant.
Inspired by the reaction to my ‘Give It A Go’ Quick Read, and running with the #ByTheDecade tag on Twitter, I’m basically looking for films you’d suggest to anyone who wasn’t overly familiar with cinema from a specific decade, starting this week with #3FromThe30s.
As always, you didn’t disappoint, so here’s a list of films from the thirties you good people would highly recommend…
Continue reading “By The Decade: Your Favourite Films From The Thirties”After the recent Quick Read on ‘Give It A Go’ films received such a great response, I thought I’d ask you to join me in a little experiment.
To expand my cinematic horizons, and inspire anyone who reads this to try new films, this is the first entry in a series of Quick Reads* asking for your top films from a given decade of cinema.
Continue reading “By The Decade: 3 Great Films From The Thirties”Today would have been Peter Cushing’s 108th birthday.
Now I’m by no means a scholar of Cushing’s work, and he was so prolific I’ve probably only seen a fraction of the films he made over a career that spanned almost 50 years. But I’ve seen enough to know he was a different breed of film star, and I want to take a few minutes just to share the love.
Continue reading “In appreciation of Peter Cushing…”