There was an excellent documentary a few years ago about Australian cinema called “Not Quite Hollywood”. Directed by Mark Hartley, what made this doco unique is that it didn’t address the ‘new wave’ of Australian cinema that included films such as “Picnic At Hanging Rock” and “My Brilliant Career”. It did something wildly different. “Not […]
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The 15 Best Robin Williams Movies You Need To Watch
Like countless others across the world, I was shocked and saddened to hear of the passing of Robin Williams. To me, this man was an utter lightning bolt in human form. An insanely gifted comedian and actor, his light shone twice as bright as most of his contemporaries. Born in 1951, Williams was a star […]
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The 15 Best Robert De Niro Movies You Need To Watch
Having recently written a piece on Al Pacino, considered by many as one of the heavyweights of acting in cinema, it would be a great disservice not to write a piece on Robert De Niro. That would be like Mick Jagger without Keith Richards, or bourbon without coke! Born in 1943, De Niro came to […]
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The 15 Best Al Pacino Movies You Need To Watch
Born in 1940, Alfredo “Al” Pacino was, along with Robert De Niro, at the forefront of a radically different style and approach to acting at the vanguard of New American Cinema in the early part of the Seventies. Namely, this style and approach was known as “the Method”, where an actor would go deep into […]
Stone Cold Masterpieces: Harold And Maude (1971)
Once in a while, a film comes along that affects the viewer on a deep and emotional level, while it can also leave others completely cold. The 1971 Hal Ashby film “Harold And Maude” is one of those ‘crazy diamonds’. The original black comedy about suicide, it is, in fact, an incredibly positive, joyous and […]
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15 Lesser-Known Cult Films You Should Check Out
Over the years, there have been some remarkable cult movies, such as “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” (1975), “Harold And Maude” (1971), “Repo Man” (1984) and many, many others that have bent and twisted the art form that we call ‘cinema’. They are the ‘under the radar’ films that certain factors of film lovers have […]