Tag: Cinema

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

For SetTheTape.com: “Manchester Film Festival: Can’t Say Goodbye”

• LIKE on Facebook   • FOLLOW on Twitter   • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube   • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi A father dying of cancer is an excruciatingly difficult period, but for two sisters and their father, the cancer has created opportunities to reconcile. In darkness, there is light, and there is a beautiful light in the very dark Can’t Say Goodbye. … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “Manchester Film Festival: Can’t Say Goodbye”

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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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Film Discussion, Set The Tape

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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Film Discussion, Set The Tape

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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Film Discussion, Set The Tape

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: “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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Dom on Film, Shot at 60

Shot at 60 part XIX: Meryl Streep

Hopefully you enjoyed the recent Shot at 60 comeback. This week, the current actor-based specials conclude with three-time Oscar winner, Meryl Streep. Enjoy! Manhattan (1979) United Artists / Dir: Woody Allen / Prod: Joffe   The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979) Universal Pictures / Dir: Jerry Schatzberg / Prod: Bregman   Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) Columbia Pictures / Dir: Robert Benton / Prod: Fischoff & Jaffe   … Continue reading Shot at 60 part XIX: Meryl Streep

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Dom on Film, Film Discussion

‘X-Men’ Movie Marathon: Part II

Welcome back! You’re in for a treat, folks, as two of the three X-Men movies within this part of the marathon are within my “Top 3 of the X-Men Film Franchise” – Days of Future Past and Logan, obviously.   “The best since X2!” – Fans, 2014 My god, the above is/was disgustingly true. Days of Future Past was an absolute joy to watch. The concept of linking the heroes of the original X-Men trilogy … Continue reading ‘X-Men’ Movie Marathon: Part II

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Dom on Film, Film Discussion

‘X-Men’ Movie Marathon: Part I

From 2000’s X-Men to this year’s Logan, over the past 3-4 weeks I have completed a marathon of 20th Century Fox’s most prolific superhero film franchise. TRIVIA: Logan is the only X-Men film that I have watched in the cinema. Initially, Mumsy possessed the desire to watch Days of Future Past, though she had not previously watched First Class, or properly watched the original trilogy; however, she had seen the trio of Origins: Wolverine, The … Continue reading ‘X-Men’ Movie Marathon: Part I

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Film Reviews, Read Film

For ReadFilm.co: “Review: ‘Phantasm: Ravager’ (2016)”

Phantasm: Ravager; Director: David Hartman; US Distributor: Well Go USA Entertainment; Country: USA. The first Phantasm film since 1998’s Phantasm IV: Oblivion, but the first to NOT be directed by series creator, Don Coscarelli, however, he does have a writing credit. This is… Phantasm: Ravager. My recommendation: do not watch Phantasm: Ravager if you haven’t watched the preceding films.  As one would expect, the film opens with the heroic former ice cream vendor, Reggie. Kinda picking … Continue reading For ReadFilm.co: “Review: ‘Phantasm: Ravager’ (2016)”

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Dom on Film, Film Discussion, Other

Overhearing a Film Conversation.

So, I’m on the bus home from my post-uni curry adventure in Urmston. I have a great number of shopping bags, so I sit upstairs because the downstairs of the bus was packed-out. Moving on, forty seconds after sitting down, two rogues sat somewhere behind me are discussing comic-adapted movies – ranging from Superman III to Captain America: Civil War – firstly, I was surprised to overhear such … Continue reading Overhearing a Film Conversation.

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