Filmography lookback: Lillian Gish

For Tuesdays, we thought it would be interesting to select a few films from specific actors or directors’ filmography and suggest which ones you should watch. For those of you who have been following the blog for a while, you will know that we recently started watching silent films, but

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Highest grossing film of each year: The Covered Wagon (1923) ★★★

This time out in our series of reviewing the highest-grossing film of every year since 1915 to present-day we reach 1923 and it’s top grosser the long-forgotten The Covered Wagon. Let’s get into it, shall we? Synopsis Multiple wagon caravans join together in the desert heartland of American to push

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Reviewing the highest-grossing film of the year (1918): Mickey

We move onto 1918 in our series of reviewing the highest-grossing film of each year. Last week we looked at Cecil B DeMille’s and Mary Pickford’s A Romance of the Redwoods. This week we move onto Mickey starring Mabel Normand. Due to only just watching more silent films this is

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Soundtrack Tuesday – Godzilla: King of Monsters (2019) review

Last week on Soundtrack Tuesday we looked back at the hauntingly beautiful soundtrack for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. And Kaiju believe it we have gone bigger this week (sorry for the terrible pun). This week we look back at Bear McCreary’s soundtrack for Godzilla:

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Saturday Night B-Movie – Eaten Alive! (1980)

Every Saturday we are going to look back at classic or not so classic B-Movies, because let’s face it, what night is better to watch a B-Movie than a Saturday right? To start us off we are going to look at Umberto Lenzi’s Eaten Alive! (or Mangiati Vivi! Doomed to

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What has gone wrong for Birds of Prey?

With the opening weekend box office published, it has not been a kind weekend for Birds of Prey. Domestically it has grossed $33 million and internationally $48 million for a combined $81 million. No matter how you put it, this is poor and worrisome. I had mentioned in a previous

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Tales of a former cinema employee: The day time shift

Welcome back to another couple of stories from working in a cinema! Please have a look back at the previous posts about drunk customers, the food, turning away customers and of course when customers get a little too close… Today we are going to chat about the joys of the midweek day shift

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Whats out in January (UK)

Welcome to a new month, a new year and a new decade of cinema. Will any of these films be remembered 10 years from now? Who knows, but we have some Oscar contenders to look at as we stride further into awards season. Let’s have a look at what’s out

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Is Britbox doomed to fail?

Streaming services are all the rage at the minute with Disney+ just released this year (coming to the UK in 2020), it is sure to cope well against the likes of Hulu, Netflix and Amazon. But there is one new streaming service we should be nervous about and that is

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