Movies
19th September, 1984, saw the release of Paris, Texas...
Russell Farnham
19th Sept 2014
Paris, Texas and the Lost Art of Travel
There are now thirty years between the release of Wim Wenders’ Paris, Texas and today, a lot has changed with the world and are we better for it?
25th May, 1977, Star Wars was released...
Russell Farnham
25 May, 2014
Before I begin I must confess, I have only seen Star Wars once, many years ago and have never seen any of the sequels! Now you might say that, I therefore, I have no right to write an article about the series, but it’s the films’ impact on our culture that I want to explore...
23rd May, 1980, The Shining was released...
Russell Farnham
23 May 2014
34 years ago today, one of the most renowned horror movies was released, The Shining, the psychological thriller has a lasting effect on most of those who watch it...
4th June, 1982, Poltergeist was released...
Russell Farnham
4 June 2014
32 years ago the horror film Poltergeist was released. In 2001, the film was placed at 84th in AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills proving it to be one of the scariest films in American cinema...
28th May, 1982, saw the release of Rocky III...
Russell Farnham
28 May 2014
Rocky III is 32 years old, a staggering thought! As I get older (I was born in 1980) it gets more and more frightening to learn how long ago films were released...
6th June, 2010, Twilight: Eclipse premiered...
Russell Farnham
6 June, 2014
I have to admit that I haven't seen any of the Twilight films and am probably not likely to. So I didn't go to the cinema in June 2010 to watch the third installment of the lucrative Twilight series, but many did and it's that that I would like to discuss here.
8th March, 1996, Fargo was released...
Russell Farnham
8 March, 2014
I feel ashamed to admit that I only watched Fargo recently, unfortunately it has just been one of those films that has slipped past me. I am a fan of the Coen Brothers and have seen many of their films, but Fargo is one of those films that I just missed...
21st September, 2007, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford was released...
Zac Oldenburg
21st Sept 2014
A Tale of Two Villains: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
8th October, 1999, Boys Don't Cry was released...
Jennifer Lyne
8th Oct 2014
Freedom, acceptance, identity, sex and love is something all teenagers desire. In the case of Brandon Teena, it was something that wasn’t always as straight forward to find. Fifteen years after the film’s release, the topic of transgender is still rarely represented in the media, especially in the film industry.
23rd November, 1989, Junior was released...
Colin Stacy
23rd Nov 2014
20 years its Junior
Ivan Reitman’s (Ghostbusters, Kindergarten Cop) third Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle Junior (1994) is 20 years old. Yes, the buddy-gynecologist film starring the Terminator and Danny DeVito in which Arnie gives birth to a child has somehow avoided complete pop cultural oblivion.
15th October, 1999, Fight Club was released...
Zac Oldenburg
15th Oct 2014
Tyler Durden Lost! Fight Club 15 Years On
“Of course he lost,” you say. “He ends up with a giant hole in the back of his head!” But Fight Club concludes with Durden’s Project Mayhem successfully resetting everyone to zero. In the world of the film, Tyler Durden wins, even though he is dead.
19th October, 1994, Clerks was released...
Liam Macloed
19th Oct 2014
With the benefit of two decades worth of hindsight it’s almost hard to believe that Kevin Smith’s Clerks really did make such a big impact on the world of independent film. Back in 1994, Clerks was merely the low-no budget day-in-the-life-of story about an apathetic convenience store clerk whose director bankrupted himself making it.
19th October, 1939, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington was released...
Scotty Barnhart
19th Oct 2014
Frank Capra always claimed that It's a Wonderful Life (1946) was the favorite of his movies; it's mine, too. But according to Joseph McBride, one of Capra's biographers, Capra eventually acknowledged that Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) is a better movie...
22nd October, 2004, Sideways was released...
Scotty Barnhart
22nd Oct 2014
The Grapes of Discontent: On the 10th Anniversary of Sideways (2004)
Sideways (2004) is like a bottle of fine wine, specifically the prized bottle of 1961 Château Cheval Blanc owned by the movie's protagonist, Miles Raymond (Paul Giamatti), a recently divorced wine connoisseur, discontented high school English teacher, and aspiring author.
3rd November, 1954, Godzilla was released...
Liam Macloed
3rd Nov 2014
Godzilla: The Birth of Kaiju
On 6th August 1945, residents around Hiroshima awoke to the sight of a mushroom cloud rising over what was once a fully populated city. It towered at a height of 20,000 feet in a matter of minutes had cast a long, dark shadow over what was a bright morning in Japan.
24th October, 1969, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was released...
Russell Farnham
24th Oct 2014
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and the Outlaw Affair
It’s 45 years since the release of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), a film with enough talent and potential to produce a quality outlaw film.
26th October, 1984, The Terminator was released...
Zac Oldenburg
26th Oct 2014
The Terminator 30
The Terminator turns 30 today (26th October, 2014) and it is still as well oiled and relentless a film as the titular villain.
8th November, 1999, The World is Not Enough was released...
Colin Stacy
8th Nov 2014
The World is Not Enough is 15
As far as pop cultural artifacts are concerned, there is no denying the tenure and sustainability of the James Bond franchise. Since 1962, a Bond film has been released almost every other year.
9th November, 1984, A Nightmare on Elm Street was released...
Liam Macloed
9th Nov 2014
A Nightmare on Elm Street: 30 years of Freddy!
According to the films, Freddy Krueger was conceived in a mental hospital when a nurse was accidentally locked in a wing with the asylum’s most violently insane patients.
15th November, 1989, Steel Magnolias was released...
Kenny Meier
15th Nov 2014
Steel Magnolias and that hair is 25 years old!
Steel Magnolias celebrates its 25th anniversary on November 15, 2014, and the only thing that doesn’t hold up is the big hair.
17th November, 1989, The Little Mermaid was
released...
Jennifer Lyne
17th Nov 2014
The Little Mermaid has spent 25 years under the sea.
Yes, The Little Mermaid is twenty-five years old! This is a film that all children born of the late eighties, early nineties know and love, some of us an embarrassing amount.
