Cinemas Greatest Scenes: Breakfast at Tiffany’s opening scene.
So much has been said about the opening scene of Breakfast at Tiffany’s (the beloved 1961 film adaptation of Truman Capote’sContinue Reading
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Top Ten Lists: Best Moments in all of Star Wars.
Over the last forty years, the world has been mesmerised by Star Wars. It’s fair to say everything changed forContinue Reading
Cinemas Greatest Scenes: Some Like It Hot’s perfect ending.
Over the years director Billy Wilder’s hilarious Some Like It Hot (1959) has been lauded as a triumph of cinema andContinue Reading
My 2021 Oscar Predictions.
In a year where covid-19 closed almost all movie theatres around the world and all the big studios stalled andContinue Reading
Cinemas Greatest Scenes: When Ben-Hur first meets Jesus.
There had been nothing like it before with its scale, sweeping scope and spectacle. It smashed box office records andContinue Reading
Humphrey Bogart: The man, the legend and the falcon.
I have enjoyed watching classic movies from the golden age of Hollywood for a long time now, often at aContinue Reading
When Hollywood’s Darling met Soviet Premier Khrushchev.
On the 19th September 1959, Marilyn Monroe was preparing to meet the Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev, while camped out inContinue Reading
Top Ten Lists: The Best Actresses of the 2010s.
The following list of the best actresses of the 2010s was always going to be a subjective choice on myContinue Reading
Spotlight on Anita Ekberg.
One of the reasons why Anita Ekberg has been on my mind lately is because I recently sat down toContinue Reading
Cinemas Greatest Scenes: “Made it, Ma! Top of the world!”
The heyday of gangster movies in the 1930s brought the best out of all the studios big stars and theContinue Reading
