AHNZ Please enjoy the ideas and let me know what you think. James Cameron’s film The Terminator was released 35 years ago on 26 October 1984. Next week the next film in this series will be released featuring the original casting pair: Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton; Terminator: Dark
Doug “Uncola” Lynn thetollonline.com This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors,
Burn, Hollywood, Burn A regular column by John Black He’s survived the evil machinations of Blofeld, Goldfinger and Dr No but can he survive his most powerful adversary yet, the Social Justice Warrior? The trailer for the next James Bond movie ‘No Time to Die’ is imminent and the
Because it holds up a mirror to the trashworld they’ve created.
“There is only one really serious philosophical question”, wrote Albert Camus. “And that is suicide. Deciding whether or not life is worth living is to answer the fundamental question in philosophy.” This is the question with which Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) wrestles for two grim hours, in Joker. There are
Burn, Hollywood, Burn A regular review by John Black A little thought experiment if you will. Imagine a movie based on the following premise: A group of single dads, working as bartenders at a high class New York bar frequented by wealthy women, decide that their generous tips aren’t
Burn, Hollywood, Burn A regular review by John Black There should be an entire circle of Hell dedicated to people who opine on movies without seeing them first. More than any blockbuster movie in recent memory, Joker has been the victim of such predestinarian soothsaying. Based on nothing but the
Burn, Hollywood, Burn A regular review by John Black With the recent release of Rambo: Last Blood and its critical mauling for daring to feature a violent and vengeful 73 year old man (the Guardian called it an ‘enlarged prostate of a movie’; imagine if someone had called Thelma and
Burn, Hollywood, Burn A regular review by John Black How does a man well past his party years wind up in a cinema early on a Friday evening drinking whiskey neat and watching the latest Rambo movie? A bad week, that’s how. A vicious stew of happenstance – a wallet
Burn, Hollywood, Burn A regular review by John Black I have never watched a single episode of the TV series Downton Abbey, which sees its cinematic offspring grace our movie houses this week. I have always figured it was the kind of Merchant Ivory/Brideshead Revisited bollocks, only popular with
When a comedian opens with jokes about Anthony Bourdain’s suicide, you know the show ain’t going to be no safe space. Dave Chappelle’s Sticks and Stones is about as un-safe a space for modern audiences as could be imagined. For just over an hour, Chappelle pokes
Burn, Hollywood, Burn A regular review by John Black IT’S 2 BLOODY LONG The first ‘IT’ is the highest grossing horror movie ever, far surpassing such classics as Psycho, Alien, Silence of the Lambs and Halloween. This fact is the sand in the arse crack of every true horror
Burn, Hollywood, Burn A regular review by John Black In his latest flick Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino discovers Old-Man-At-The-BBQ-Who’s-Had-One-Beer-Too-Many variety Conservatism. The thematic takeaways are what Conservatives have been saying for ages (at BBQs and
