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 […]

chinatown

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 […]

Cannonball

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 […]

Touch Of Evil

7th August 2015 @matcoop 0

I’m a big fan of Orson Welles, and probably Touch of Evil is my favourite film made by Welles. One of the great things now, […]

Family Style

Family Style

31st July 2015 @matcoop 0

In this blogpost, part of my series on 100 films you must see, I’m going to write about one of my own bits of work. […]

Full Metal Jacket

Full Metal Jacket

26th July 2015 @matcoop 0

Full Metal Jacket was released in 1987 when I was still at school. I must have caught up with it on VHS video after it […]

sopranos

The Sopranos

18th July 2015 @matcoop 0

I seem to have gone down the road of writing about a lot of gangster movies. My favourite film critic David Thompson has identified that […]