Posts by James Drew | Picturenose

DVD Movie Review: Rabid (1977)

May

2013

Blood lust We are back in my (rather corrupted, it must be said) childhood here, with David Cronenberg‘s continuing (at the time) exploration of ‘body horror’. This time around, he drew a bravura performance from perhaps the greatest porn queen of her generation, Marilyn Chambers. Sadly, despite the fact that she obviously had what it ...

Cinema Movie Review: Quartet (2012) 2

May

2013

‘Growing old is not for cissies’ And so Dustin Hoffman (amazingly enough, for the first time) takes to the director’s chair for this gentle, sweet but overly sentimental tale of life after the curtain calls have ended, Quartet (2012). In a home for retired musicians, the annual gala concert to celebrate Verdi’s birthday is facing ...

DVD Movie Review: The Dead Zone (1983)

May

2013

What would you do? Slowly but surely, I am getting around to the Stephen King films that are worth reviewing for Picturenose – and this marvellous adaptation by David Cronenberg is still very much one of the best films to be made from King’s work, 30 years on.

DVD Movie Review: Witchfinder General (1968)

May

2013

Price’s finest hour This one really takes me back – Witchfinder General (1968) was directed by Michael Reeves, a director who was cited at the time as the great white hope of the British film industry, having made only two films before Witchfinder…, namely The She Beast (1966) starring Barbara Steele and Ian Ogilvy, and ...

European Film Academy News

May

2013

EFA Board: Neglecting the importance of culture will put an end to the European Dream The Board of the European Film Academy and EFA President Wim Wenders have declared their support for the petition launched by the French Association of Film Directors and Producers (ARP) to preserve Europe’s cultural exception in the EU/US trade and ...

Movie Feature: PopCircle.com

Apr

2013

PopCircle.com – it’s absolutely the latest thing in social networking/sharing/recommending and, as you would expect, Picturenose.com is on the scene early. CEO and co-founder Tom Mendelsohn liked what he saw when he and his team first found Picturenose, so it’s for that reason that Colin Moors and James Drew were among the first to be ...

DVD Movie Review: What’s Up, Doc? (1972) 2

Mar

2013

Screwball masterpiece It’s a wonderful thing, when you come back to a film that you remember with such affection from your childhood, to find that age has not only not deteriorated it, but if anything, made it even better. Such was the case when I watched Peter Bogdanovich‘s What’s Up, Doc? (1972) with the Divine ...

DVD Movie Review: De battre mon coeur s’est arrêté (The Beat That My Heart Skipped) (2005)

Mar

2013

Music hath charms… One of those films that sort of snuck up on me is De battre mon coeur s’est arrêté (The Beat That My Heart Skipped) (2005) – my friend and flat-mate had been suggesting for a while that I might like Jacques Audiard‘s study of a man on the brink of adulthood, who ...

Movie News: Offscreen continues apace

Mar

2013

John Waters was the guest of honour at the Offscreen Film Festival on 9-10 March. His stand-up act This Filthy World at Bozar as well as his masterclass at Cinematek and the screenings of his films at Cinema Nova all enjoyed a full house. Rumours concerning his death that spread through social networks on Friday ...

Movie News: 6th Offscreen Festival Ticket Giveaway!

Feb

2013

Six of the best for Offscreen The 6th Offscreen Film Festival opens with Berberian Sound Studio (2012) and welcomes John Waters as its guest of honour. The festival, an annual gathering for fans of bizarre and cult cinema, will once again open its doors from 6-24 March. Independent films, classic B-movies and the strangest cinema ...

Movie Feature: European Film Awards 2014 go to Riga

Feb

2013

Riga, European Capital of Culture 2014, will be the host of the 27th European Film Awards next year. Taking place in Berlin, seat of the European Film Academy (EFA), every second year, in the other years the ceremony travels. EFA Director Marion Döring said: “As a truly European event, this is the only awards ceremony ...

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