May 20th, 2007
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The second of BC Magazine’s monthly horror series Cinema Macabre has been published. Among the ghoulish delights this month are -
Chris Beaumont on the pleasures of nunsploitation and Satanico Pandemonium.
Iloz Zoc takes a look at the Japanese classic The H-Man with its radioactive jelly-men.
Daniel Woolstencroft pays tribute to the late Bob Clark and the classic Deathdream.
And me? I look back at the first and best screen version of John Wyndam’s The Midwich Cuckoos - Village of the Damned staring the incomparable George Sanders.
Cinema Macabre is published on the last Friday of the month.
May 20th, 2007
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Over the past week I’ve written three articles for BC Magazine to commemorate the centenary of Katherine Hepburn’s birth on May 12. Katharine Hepburn Centenary: The First Lady of Cinema takes a brief look at some of the high points of the actresses long career and you’ll also find reviews of The African Queen and Rooster Cogburn.
BC Magazine will also be featuring similar articles to commemorate the births of Laurence Olivier (May 20) and John Wayne (May 26) over the next couple of weeks.
May 15th, 2007
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After Seeing Ghost Rider at the cinema recently I was left with an aversion to Nicolas Cage. Rather than allow this to get the better of me (and miss potentially good films) I decided to immerse myself in Cage’s back catalogue in the hopes this would cure me.
Con Air: Extended Edition
I’ve written about Con Air in the Viewing Journal before and this extended cut doesn’t add much to this excellent OTT action fest. The new scenes are mostly little character moments and as such are pretty superfluous to requirements. Big dumb action doesn’t get much better than this.
Face/Off
Nicolas Cage and John Travolta compete in a scenery chewing contest in probably John Woo’s best film since going Hollywood. It you can get past the ridiculousness of the central idea (two people swapping faces) then there is much fun to be had here. It’s the good guy/bad guy thing that Woo used to do se well in Hong Kong, yet it lacks the emotional depth of The Killer or Hard Boiled (as does all his Western work). It does have plenty of action, with lots of his trademark slow motion diving through the air while firing two guns and plenty of big explosions. As for which of the scenery munchers wins, I’d have to call it a draw.
The Family Man
