Thought I’d take a break from writing to put this together; a list I’ve been tinkering with for a few months now. Some film scenes are just fun to watch. Others hit with the kind of tension that’s been building for ages. The best showdowns aren’t only about sharp choreography or loud impacts – they’re […]
Read more "Top 30 Showdowns in Film"This is something of a departure from my usual subject matter. However; when I came across this gentleman’s life story as part of a planning session at school, I felt I had to look a little more deeply and share it with people. I had never heard of him before but it turns out that […]
Read more "Colonel Percy Fawcett – Adventurer or Pretender?"Here’s the link to my new Taste of Cinema article: http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2018/the-30-tensest-movie-scenes-of-all-time/ Don’t know where my editor found the images but they have little to do with the actual scenes mentioned in most cases. Before you go there, though, I’d like to take a second to acknowledge two scenes and three actors that I couldn’t mention in […]
Read more "The 30 tensest moments in cinema history"A bit of John Williams this week. Temple of Doom is sometimes looked down on among the films either side of it in the original Indiana Jones trilogy. It has its issues for sure but John Williams’ work on the soundtrack is superb (well, no-one would expect anything different, right?). I love the fusion of […]
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