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Showing posts with label movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label movies. Show all posts
Monday, 18 November 2019

Classic Horror Movies available on You Tube

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German influenced design The Abominable Dr Phibes (1971) Vincent Price Horror/Comedy The Ape (1940) The Bat Whispers (1930) The B...
Saturday, 1 March 2014

Films I am ashamed of liking - guilty pleasures

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Howard Hughes (reportedly) watched "Ice Station Zebra" over 100 times. I have never seen it... but here are my guilty pleasures, m...
Thursday, 27 February 2014

The A-Z of forgotten (but good fun) films

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The Assassination Bureau (1969, Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg) Bedazzled (1967, Peter Cook & Dudley Moore) The Cat and the Canary (1939, ...
Sunday, 6 October 2013

Add a word, ruin a movie

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Saw this on Twitter. This is contagious. Here are mine. Apologies for Melbourne locales in some: "Last Tango in Paris Hilton" ...
Thursday, 19 September 2013

1964 - a good year for films

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From a baby boomer's perspective, 1964 had some outstanding (English speaking) movie releases. Here's my top 10 (in no special orde...
Friday, 6 September 2013

The pain of being a crap blogger

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You're about to go to sleep.... when you think of a great idea for a blog post. Movies with exclamation marks in their title - it'...
Thursday, 30 May 2013

Cannon Group Films, Golan-Globus Productions: Dodgy movies from the eighties

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A trip to the video library in the 1980's meant shelves and shelves of Golan-Globus fodder. The output ranged from the arty farty like ...
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Thursday, 21 March 2013

Avco-Embassy, Joseph E. Levine guilty pleasure movies

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Image Copyright Sony Corp/cinemadumeep.com Joseph E. Levine was a movie producer who founded Embassy Pictures. He once said that you can...
Monday, 11 March 2013

50 movies that shaped the baby boomer generation - from "A Summer Place" to "Summer of '42"

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I was born in 1956. Baby boomers are those born between 1946 and 1964 according to U.S. Census definition. Most of the films listed are Holl...
Tuesday, 5 March 2013

1939 - the year of the classic movies

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Check out the incredible films released in 1939, in no particular order: Stagecoach , Goodbye, Mr Chips ,  The Wizard of Oz , Ninotchka , ...
Thursday, 28 February 2013

MGM Movies - my guilty pleasures

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Image Copyright MGM corporation/fanpop.com I am starting at 1959 (I was around 4 years old, old enough to remember a movie, I reckon). ...

Disney movies - guilty pleasures

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Copyright The Walt Disney Company/wallsave.com As I was born in 1956, I will start when I can first remember seeing a Disney film..... ...
Friday, 15 February 2013

The crappiest James Bond moments

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In the interest of 'equal time', I am now going to slag off my favourite movie franchise..... the last few minutes of Goldfinge...
Thursday, 14 February 2013

Warner Bros. movies - guilty pleasures

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I will start from 1960, when I was four because I reckon from that age you can absorb and remember the film. Copyright TimeWarner Company...
Monday, 11 February 2013

"Guilty pleasure" movies - from Columbia Pictures

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I will begin when I was four years old, old enough to remember seeing the movie. 1960 Guns of Navarone  * 1961 Mysterious Island 1962...
Thursday, 31 January 2013

Films that scared the shit out of me as a kid

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Darby O'Gill and the Little People   (probably saw it in 1960, made in 1959) the wonderful special effects like the Banshees and ...
Thursday, 24 January 2013

Baby names rant. Weird name = Child abuse???

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Poor kids who have to put up with weird first names. The trend is pick names of places or adjectives to make the child stand out, unique and...