Now then – John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982), itself a remake of the Christian Nyby/Howard Hawks/Orson Welles (?) 1951 classic, The Thing From Another World (both of which are adaptations of John W.Campbell’s original short story, Who Goes There?) is perhaps the finest horror-science fiction film ever made. Carpenter’s movie, although it fared badly [...]
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Stuffing and nonsense With the festive season just around the corner, Picturenose presents a nostalgic look at a selection of films that you just know will be found somewhere in the depths of the Yuletide TV schedules. Christmas crackers next week, but first up, it’s the gobblers. Christmas, eh? A time to gather the family round, nibble [...] Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow… All this talk on Picturenose (writes Cillian Donnelly) about Ronald Emmerich’s big-budget end-of-the-world thriller 2012 (2009) has prompted me to revisit this 1981 curio – a kitsch docu-drama based on the prophecies of the seer Michel de Nostradame, who is more commonly known as Nostradamus. Kane scrutiny: Still able? An attempt to stand on the shoulders of giants – a look at Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane (1941), which is enjoying a return to UK cinemas. A thing of darkness… Well, this week will provide a rare chance for certain upper-echelon critics to admit they got it wrong at the time, as they tend to do (get it wrong, that is, not own up and retract) with all the very best horror (Peeping Tom (1960), anyone?) – in a master stroke, presumably [...] |
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