Originally I was going to do Watchmen for W, but I couldn’t be bothered with the inevitable comparisons to the comic, so I decided to settle for The Woman in Black instead. It was one of my favourite films of 2012 (I reviewed it here on my film blog), and it was nice to see […]
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#FridayFlash – Seconds
Click. Wind the film on. Focus. Click. Repeat. Six shots later, Dana rewound the film and popped open the back of her camera. Her fingers danced a familiar routine as she removed the film, and added another. The new film was black and white, and strictly for artwork. Not like the colour film she’d just […]
A to Z – Vacancy
You might think that I’d have chosen V for Vendetta for this letter, and I wanted to, but at the same time, one of the driving forces behind my choices has been picking films that people might have heard of but not seen, or which they had never heard of at all. I’m spreading the […]
A to Z – Underworld
I’ll be honest with you, I got really, really stuck to think of a film beginning with U. It wasn’t that there aren’t any – far from it – I just couldn’t think of any that I actually liked, or had seen. But I didn’t want to skip a day so I thought “To hell […]
A to Z – Tombstone
Given the fact my first published book was a Western, you may be wondering exactly why there haven’t been any Westerns in my A to Z so far. Well, wonder no more, because I’ve saved the very best for T – Tombstone. Granted, the 1993 film plays fast and loose with history, and it’s not […]
A to Z – Session 9
Can you believe we’re onto S already? Madness. Anyway, I had a whole bunch of films I wanted to talk about for S, and I spent a lot of time going back and forth between Session 9 and Suspiria. Eventually I settled on Session 9, although I’m not overly sure why. I love both films, […]
