CITIZEN KANE (1941) There’s no enjoyment in reverence. The scholar who’s forced into study, be it of War and Peace or Creamy Juggs Quarterly, is pressing upon himself an innate resistance to the material and an assumption of its superiority. Citizen Kane has held such an alienating authority for so long that the best it …
YOJIMBO (1961) Kurosawa had wanted to do a film like Yojimbo for a long time. A story not of good vs. evil, but of evil vs. evil with a hero stepping in and wiping out both sides. He finally settled on a story clearly inspired by Dashiell Hammet’s Red Harvest and The Glass Key. Since …
After a week off for Christmas, The Movie Night Diaries is back! This time we’re looking into Hammer Horror’s The Evil of Frankenstein (1964), directed by Freddie Francis. The Evil of Frankenstein stars Peter Cushing as the cursed Baron Frankenstein and Kiwi Kingston as his hapless creature in a re-booting of Hammer’s Frankenstein mythology. I …
And we’re back! It has been sometime since James and I have recorded an episode of Spoiler Alert!, and thanks to him not being able to participate, it will still be a long time until James and I record and episode of Spoiler Alert! In his place is my personal placeholder, Angela (of the Film …