Hello and welcome to Director of the Month, your cut-out-and-keep guide to the very finest auteurs in filmland... This month: Roman Polanski Nationality: French/Polish D.O.B: 18/08/1933 Years active: 1955 - present Number of films (as director): 18 Do say: "With your beady eye for the macabre, and ...Read More
Yo, dudes! Ahem. I'll bet you're enjoying Downtown Week, ain't ya? And, why not; after all, you've never seen anyone wear a T-shirt with 'I Hate New York' written on it, have you? Part of the allure of the Big Apple ...Read More
Oh, hello. Got any plans for Valentine's Day? No? Yes, it is a bit vacuous and overly commercialised, isn't it? And what's that? You don't have a girlfriend/boyfriend (cross off where apropriate)? What a shame! So you were thinking of ...Read More
Hello all, and welcome to Days Are Numbers' countdown of the thirty greatest films of the decade!* After a brief moment of mulling it over, I decided not to do a 'best of' list at the end of last year, because ...Read More
Aneet may sneer, but I am a self-confessed Elton John mega-fan (although that stops dead at 1979's horrendous disco album, Victim of Love; they all did a disco album at some point, didn't they Aneet?). And the angry, stinking rich oddball is responsible ...Read More
I have gushed about Gremlins on the pages of this very website before, of course. It was my favourite film when I was a nipper, remains one of my favourite films to this day, and will always be my favourite ...Read More
When I talk to people who haven't seen Ghostwatch (either because they were too young, or they were watching something else at the time), I sometimes feel like the deranged stereotype of a Vietnam veteran; "YOU WOULDN'T KNOW, MAN! YOU WEREN'T THERE, ...Read More
Films based on comic books. There's a few too many of 'em about these days. And what's worse is that they all seem determined to sap everything that's remotely fun out of comic books in their transition from page to screen. ...Read More
Just look at Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson doing the fabulous prog/folk/psych number 'Witch's Promise' on Top of the Pops in 1970! Look at him! He's like a mad combination of Rasputin and someone you might see on Time Team! He's singing about ...Read More
Halloween, eh? It's all about the silly masks. And they don't come much sillier than the frankly abysmal mask the poor actor (one Joe Cornelius) playing the title creature of this 1970s Britsploitation "classic" was lumbered with. Trog is of course short ...Read More
