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  • Reel 69: When Icons Meet

    Reel 69: When Icons Meet

    In a way, this episode is an unofficial third in our recent series of fairy tales, in the sense that it depicts a couple of “What if?” scenarios, except this time around we’re using people who really existed. First up is Insignificance, from 1985, and then it’s One Night In Miami… from 2020. Interestingly, both…

  • Hanna (2011) – Review

    The following is a slightly re-edited version of a review I wrote for the fanzine CAPRA. As I mentioned when writing about The Bride with White Hair, along with their action movies, the fantasy movies that came out of Hong Kong in the 80’s and 90’s, from what I’ve seen of them, were real adult…

  • The Bride With White Hair (1993) – Review

    Ronny Yu is probably best known in this country for directing horror movies in America, particularly Bride of Chucky (among the most popular of the Child’s Play sequels, not least of which because of the voice performance of Jennifer Tilly as the bride) and Freddy vs. Jason, the crossover between Friday the 13th and A…

  • Reel 68: More Modern Fairy Tales

    Reel 68: More Modern Fairy Tales

    In this episode we continue our theme of Modern-Day Fairy Tales, even though in one case it’s not necessarily set in the present day. So let’s just call it a present-day telling of a fairy tale and leave it at that. And that’s where we start this time around, with 1993’s The Bride With White…

  • Mona Lisa (1986) – Review

    Neil Jordan has made a number of different kinds of films, from biopic (Michael Collins) to literary adaptation (the remake of The End of the Affair) to comedy (the remake of We’re No Angels) to revenge film (Angel, aka Danny Boy, his first film, and The Brave One). However, there have been two consistent strands…

  • Ball of Fire (1941) – Review

    When classic movie lovers discuss what year is considered the best ever in Hollywood cinema, 1939 is usually the one that gets chosen, as it was the year of such films as Gone with the Wind, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Stagecoach and The Wizard of Oz. However, you could make a very good case for 1941 being the…

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