Back in Dear Old Blighty in 87 when I was a cherubic-faced schoolboy half-mesmerized by Tracey Sharpe’s swaying pigtails, a jobless loner in a nearby market town killed his mum, burned their house down and strolled around with an arsenal of high-powered weaponry slaughtering whoever he could find. Ho hum. Guess we all have days […]
Targets (1968)
August 25, 2021 by
Film Title
TargetsSynopsis
An elderly horror movie star confronts a psychopathic Vietnam War vet who is a mass-murdering sniper
Director
Peter BogdanovichCast
Tim O'Kelly
Boris Karloff
Arthur Peterson
Peter Bogdanovich
Nancy Hsueh
Wake In Fright: a.k.a. Outback
August 11, 2021 by
Film Title
Wake In FrightSynopsis
Toxic masculinity
Director
Ted KotcheffCast
Gary Bond
Donald Pleasence
Chips Rafferty
Sylvia Kay
Jack Thompson
Toxic masculinity. It’s a term bandied around by Nancy-boy progressives designed to make pumped-up, no-nonsense guys think twice about their actions. Bollocks, I say. What’s wrong with piling into a battered Ford with your mullet-headed mates and screeching round corners at breakneck speed while yelling abuse at passersby? Are you seriously saying I don’t have […]
Ten Memorable Acts Of Violence In Movies
July 20, 2021 by
Growing up in 1980’s Britain with the video nasties scare, I implicitly absorbed movie violence was bad and if I watched enough I’d eventually take an axe to random passersby. Now while this proved unfortunately true in my case, most people remain unaffected. In fact, someone like you has probably already forgotten hundreds, if not […]
Top 10 Movies Not To Watch Before…
July 11, 2021 by
Some movies are so bland they pretty much leave your head as the end credits roll. Others contain such unnerving scenes… like the opening of Jaws … that they are never forgotten. The horrifying death of that helpless skinny dipper is the perfect example of how a movie can worm its way into your brain […]
