A somewhat belated top ten favourite movies of the year. My top six was easy, after that there were at least ten contenders for the final four places. A note on selection. Poor Things is a 20...
https://fandangogroovers.wordpress.com/2024/01/18/top-ten-favourite-films-2023/
Is Die Hard a Christmas movie? What is the best Christmas Movie? Who is the best movie Santa? We get all these questions every year, but nobody ever seems to ask about new year movies. Ther...
https://fandangogroovers.wordpress.com/2024/01/01/happy-new-year-3/
2023 has seen the return of many great shows, The Bear, Foundation, Slow Horses. The final series of others Succession, and Sex Education. And the resurrection of another Justified: City Primev...
https://fandangogroovers.wordpress.com/2023/12/26/best-new-tv-shows-2023/
Zack Snyder is the most frustrating director, he has proved with some of his best works, Dawn of the Dead, 300, and Watchmen that he can tell a story in an exciting in engaging way. He also has...
Martin Scorsese has spent the last five years waging a war against comic book movies particularly the MCU, or so you would be forgiven for thinking. But when you actually read the articles ther...
My first article with the prefix ‘Somebody Make a Film About’ was over a decade ago. I have only written a couple since, but all with the same theme, historical figures that have not had th...
I was recently at a festival with a friend who I was at university with nearly thirty years ago. There were a long of teenagers wearing 90’s band T-shirts, the most common was Nirvana. Jon ...
Barbie is a fashion doll manufactured by American toy company Mattel, since their launch in 1959 Barbie and her male counterpart Ken have been the most popular dolls in the word. Having passed ...
https://fandangogroovers.wordpress.com/2023/08/20/the-curse-of-barbie/
Quentin Tarantino’s first movie Reservoir Dogs has one eye on the past. The soundtrack is littered with 70’s music, we hear snippets from a radio station “super sounds of the 70’s”, t...
https://fandangogroovers.wordpress.com/2023/04/15/quentin-tarantino-ranking/
Having declared last month that I was going to return to my movie of the month segment I have fallen somewhat behind. We are two thirds of the way through March, and I am yet to report on Febru...
https://fandangogroovers.wordpress.com/2023/03/19/movie-of-the-month-february-2023/