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May 17, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: When You’re Too Old To Cut The Mustard You Can Still Lick The Jar
Every good movie is a western – even if there’s no horse. Well, there’s always a horse, and there’s always a cowboy, and there’s always the damsel in distress (or that dress) and a New Yorker wise-guy is just any other gangster and there’s a lot of big hats, but there’s not often much cattle. […]Archive
June 29, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Wellington Film Society: Preview – Les Cowboys (July 2)
The Wellington Film Society’s program moves back up to date this week. Last week it was the glam of Gilda – with cocktails after! But this week it’s Les Cowboys, a French-Belgian film from 2015. Reaching across 15 years and multiple countries, Les Cowboys repurposes the narrative codes of the classic western to explore the complexities of […]Archive
January 25, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Hateful Eight: Film
The Hateful Eight Director: Quentin Tarantino FilmColony/The Weinstein Company Where the last two Tarantino films have left me cold – Django almost worked, but it was too long and had no real point despite claiming it might – The Hateful Eight lingers; heck it might actually be the best QT film of all. Like Jackie […]Archive
June 16, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
A Million Ways To Die in the West: Film
A Million Ways To Die In The West Director: Seth MacFarlane Bluegrass Films/Fuzzy Door Productions From The Guy Who Brought You Ted, as far as warnings go that’s the cinematic equivalent, surely, of from the person that gave you herpes. And if you were ever a fan of Family Guy, and perhaps you’ve grown up, […]Archive
May 14, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Movies of My Life # 3: The Proposition
Charlie Burns (Guy Pearce) is an outlaw given the film’s titular proposition; Captain Stanley (Ray Winstone) releases him while holding his baby brother Mikey (Richard Wilson) prisoner. The deal? Charlie must kill the leader of the Burns’ gang, brother Arthur (Danny Huston) or else Mikey will hang on Christmas Day. The setting is the Outback […]Archive
August 21, 2013 by Simon Sweetman