McCabe and Mrs. Miller

26th September 2015 @matcoop 0

We’re coming up to October 2015, winter is coming. One of the great films to watch in winter is Robert Altman’s McCabe and Mrs.Miller. It’s […]

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Dirty Harry

19th September 2015 @matcoop 0

Don Siegal could direct. He’d been around Hollywood since the golden age. He could edit too, he could cut and shoot, like Dirty Harry, played […]

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Chinatown

13th September 2015 @matcoop 0

Robert Towne wrote Chinatown, The Last Detail, Shampoo, The Parallax View and worked without credit as ghost writer on what could be literally hundreds of […]

The Fog

The Fog

12th September 2015 @matcoop 0

John Carpenter is one of my favourite directors, his films are boyish fun. I will blog about Halloween, In the Mouth of Madness, Escape from […]

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The Cannonball Run

25th August 2015 @matcoop 0

I can hear you all laughing! But, The Cannonball Run starring Burt Reynolds is a film I grew up with. Released in 1981 and a […]

The Firm

The Firm

6th June 2015 @matcoop 0

This is the TV movie The Firm directed by Alan Clarke in 1989 and badly, very badly remade in 2009. Clarke was THE best director […]