Idle Hands (1999)

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When you’re about my age (none of your business) you’ll have a memory of your younger days, when you had a shelf full of “sure thing” videos. When you had a group of friends over, and the Pinot Grigio was flowing freely, and you needed a film that wouldn’t challenge you too much, but was … Continue reading »

Party Monster (2003)

Party Monster (2003)

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Directed by: Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato During my coffee break this morning I was reading about Bret Easton Ellis’ criticism of the “gatekeepers of politically correct gayness”. A great deal of his ire was directed towards, in his view, the imposing of a sanitized form of homosexuality from organizations such as GLAAD. Ellis likes … Continue reading »

TV – “Twitch City” (1998 – 2000)

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A TV series? Don’t worry, we won’t do it very often (or ever again, I suppose). Still, we can now have an extra section for TV reviews and get all those sweet page hits that come from this pop culture business. And to show how finger-on-the-pulse I am, it’s a Canadian show from the late … Continue reading »

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The Anderson Tapes (1971)

The Anderson Tapes (1971)

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Directed by Sidney Lumet Surveillance can be ridiculously dull. Last week I had to spend an hour trying to establish whether or not a fifty something man had concealed some meat in a bright orange bag for life. I felt like I was going over the Zapruder footage, as I kept rewinding and fast forwarding, … Continue reading »

The Saint (1997)

The Saint (1997)

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Directed by: Phillip Noyce Val Kilmer’s film career in the nineties is very much a game of two halves. Some standout performances in ‘Tombstone’, ‘The Doors’ and ‘Heat’, and obvious flops ‘The Island of Doctor Moreau’, ‘The Ghost and the Darkness’ and ‘At First Sight’. Handsome and charismatic Kilmer could’ve potentially been a consistent leading … Continue reading »