Born: 11th June 1933 Died: 29th August 2016 (83 years) Gene Wilder (born Jerome Silberman) studied acting from the age of 13 and his first stage appearance was at the age of 15 in Romeo and Juliet. After graduating from the University of Iowa he was accepted at the Bristol Old Vic, where he learnt …
August 2021
Bruce and Evan Almighty
WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers I’m going to open this article with a little confession. For a long time I had no interest in watching Evan Almighty because of how much I enjoyed Bruce Almighty and that I never used to find Steve Carrell very funny. However, for this blog I decided to take …
Beware The Video Nasty
An Introduction Video Nasty (def): A term coined by Mary Whitehouse that has become a British colloquialism referring to a number of low-budget horror and exploitation films. I want to take you on a journey, over several articles in fact, through the films that were once considered as ‘video nasties’. Because of this, I …
The Beautiful Game – First Half
WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS SPOILERS The Beautiful Game. A Game of Two Halves. What am I talking about? I’m talking FOOTBALL. Football is, probably, England’s favourite sport with at least 70% of the UK population watching the Premier League every week. Even those that do not claim to follow the sport show their colours and …
Code Name: Trixie
WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers OK, the title of this review may leave some of you wondering what the hell I’m on about. Well, Code Name: Trixie is actually another name for the original 1973 film The Crazies directed by George A. Romero (with the mention of that name some of you in the …
Australian Horror
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers Aussie horror can usually go one of two ways – extremely cheesy or down right terrifying. However, a few of the films mentioned below do slightly take the road less travelled and end up somewhere in between. I’m gutted to say that I was unable to get hold of …