Film Reviews, MANIFF/Manchester Film Festival, Set The Tape

For SetTheTape.com: “Manchester Film Festival: Painted Woman”

• LIKE on Facebook   • FOLLOW on Twitter   • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube   • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi James Cotten’s female-led western, Painted Woman, opened the 2018 Manchester Film Festival, and audiences witnessed a presentation of a female hero braking from her constraints and ensuring that the next generation is safer from paedophilia, prostitution and physical abuse. Painted Woman’s plot … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “Manchester Film Festival: Painted Woman”

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For SetTheTape.com: “15:17 to Paris: Clint Eastwood’s Best Directorial Film from Each Full Decade”

• LIKE on Facebook   • FOLLOW on Twitter   • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube   • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi Clint Eastwood has been directing films – both good and bad – since 1971. Eastwood debuted in the director’s chair with Play Misty for Me, a thriller presenting Eastwood himself as a radio DJ, but one with the misfortune of acquainting a … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “15:17 to Paris: Clint Eastwood’s Best Directorial Film from Each Full Decade”

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For SetTheTape.com: “Throwback 10: Rambo”

• LIKE on Facebook   • FOLLOW on Twitter   • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube   • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi Having successfully brought life back into the Rocky franchise with Rocky Balboa in 2006, it was inevitable that actor-writer-director, Sylvester Stallone, would bring back John Rambo for one last mission. With the new film, Rambo, being the fourth in the franchise, the … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “Throwback 10: Rambo”

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For SetTheTape.com: “The 15:17 to Paris’ Clint Eastwood – Play Misty for Me”

• LIKE on Facebook   • FOLLOW on Twitter   • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube   • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi Within the short period between the conclusion of Man with No Name’s story and the debut of “Dirty” Harry Callahan, Clint Eastwood would find himself in the director’s chair for the utterly terrifying drama-thriller, Play Misty for Me in 1971. In terms … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “The 15:17 to Paris’ Clint Eastwood – Play Misty for Me”

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Read Film, Villain of the Week

For ReadFilm.co: “Obscure Movie Villains: The Torch from ‘Replicant'”

• LIKE on Facebook   • FOLLOW on Twitter   • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube   • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi Released in 2001 and directed by Hong Kong legend, Ringo Lam, Replicant is both the best outing from within Van Damme’s direct-to-video career and Lam’s career in the US. Replicant presents a present-day-story with futuristic elements – essentially, this direct-to-video masterpiece was an action/sci-fi hybrid. … Continue reading For ReadFilm.co: “Obscure Movie Villains: The Torch from ‘Replicant’”

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For SetTheTape.com: “The Post’s Spielberg and Hanks: A 20 Year Collaboration”

• LIKE on Facebook   • FOLLOW on Twitter   • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube   • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi In 1998, back-to-back two-time Oscar-winner, Tom Hanks, collaborated with Steven Spielberg, the superstar director boasting a catalogue of blockbusters from Jaws to Schindler’s List, in Saving Private Ryan – an epic-scale WW2 film that some consider being the greatest war film of … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “The Post’s Spielberg and Hanks: A 20 Year Collaboration”

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For SetTheTape.com: “Looking back at… Jingle All the Way”

• LIKE on Facebook   • FOLLOW on Twitter   • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube   • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi He was Conan. He was the Terminator. He killed the Predator. In 1996, he fought off a postal worker for a Turbo-Man doll. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, this is Jingle All the Way starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Having semi-recently starred in … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “Looking back at… Jingle All the Way”

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For SetTheTape.com: “Cop Land: A failed comeback for Sly Stallone”

• LIKE on Facebook   • FOLLOW on Twitter   • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube   • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi Back in the 1990s, indie-produced films – significantly, those made by Miramax – were challenging the Hollywood supreme. The biggest and best is example is undoubtedly, Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction from 1994. Three years later, however, post-prime action star, Sylvester Stallone, landed … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “Cop Land: A failed comeback for Sly Stallone”

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For SetTheTape.com: “Rule Britannia: British Music in 1987”

• LIKE on Facebook   • FOLLOW on Twitter   • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube   • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi Back in the decade of outrageous haircuts, synthesizers and questionable outfits, British music was actually alright. In the 1980s, from Bowie to Bond themes, British music was often the safe getaway from the soul-destroying antics of the Thatcher government. 1987, however, was … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “Rule Britannia: British Music in 1987”

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For SetTheTape.com: “From Hong Kong to the US: Filmmakers in Transition”

• LIKE on Facebook   • FOLLOW on Twitter   • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube   • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi In the 1990s, key practitioners and performers from the Hong Kong film industry were transitioning to the golden land of Hollywood – but why? The “Handover” was fast approaching and the film industry was imploding – but why? The Hong Kong film … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “From Hong Kong to the US: Filmmakers in Transition”

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For SetTheTape.com: “Throwback 20: Maximum Risk”

• LIKE on Facebook   • FOLLOW on Twitter   • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube   • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi The year is 1996 and Ringo Lam, Hong Kong’s second-biggest director of its famed Heroic Bloodshed era of glory and gore, had arrived in the USA to team up with Jean-Claude Van Damme – if audiences were expecting a spectacle of roundhouse … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “Throwback 20: Maximum Risk”

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For Christmas, I’ve Ordered the Complete Series of The X-Files

Yes, as the title reads, I have ordered the complete series of The X-Files, though of course, the box-set is lacking the recent-ish tenth series, but does include the two feature films. Throughout the year on 5Spike, episodes of The X-Files have been broadcast chronologically roughly between 10pm and 1am. Luckily, when free, I have been able to view the occasional episode, however, my most … Continue reading For Christmas, I’ve Ordered the Complete Series of The X-Files

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