http://filmjournal.net/ghostof82 Just another Filmjournal.net weblog Sat, 16 Aug 2008 19:00:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Okay, thats it. I've had it with horror films. I mean, life is just too short. There's plenty of great films out there for me to discover, or great, favourite films for me to watch again, but really, I've had it with horror films. The genre has been on a slippery ... http://filmjournal.net/ghostof82/2008/08/16/dvd-sinbin-2001-maniacs/ The original CREEPSHOW, back from that golden year 1982, is a fine horror anthology- the stories are short, varied and effective, the casting universally good, the music sublime. The film works very well, and has quite a unique charm that in many ways has been unequalled in the many years ... http://filmjournal.net/ghostof82/2008/08/10/dvd-sinbin-creepshow-2/ Watched DARK CITY on Blu-ray the other night. Being a fan of BLADE RUNNER and film-noir in general, the film is right up my alley, but apart from the obvious visual similarities, DARK CITY had other connections with BLADE RUNNER I was not previously aware of. I'd seen the film ... http://filmjournal.net/ghostof82/2008/08/07/dark-city-shines-bright/ DOOMSDAY is, just simply, a blast. It is also a love letter to genre films of the 1980s, full of affectionate nods to cult faves such as ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, MAD MAX, EXCALIBUR, ALIENS... if, like me, you remember and love those films then you just can't help falling ... http://filmjournal.net/ghostof82/2008/07/24/doomsday/ I love ALIEN. I can live with ALIENS, think ALIEN 3 might have been a masterpiece had the studio left it alone, and... well, I kinda pretend that the fourth film never happened to be honest. But even the fourth film is a work of art compared to AVP2. The Alien franchise ... http://filmjournal.net/ghostof82/2008/07/02/avp2-requiem-for-a-franchise/ Funny thing happened yesterday. It was my nephew's birthday, "the big one-two", as he called it. Twelve years old. I remember back when I was twelve, I told him, when his Dad and I bunked off school one February afternoon back in 1978. If I remember rightly it was my ... http://filmjournal.net/ghostof82/2008/04/30/a-long-long-time-ago/ I love ALIEN. I know its just a simple dumb 'b'-movie sci-fi flick at heart, but I absolutely adore this film. As soon as it begins and that wonderful title sequence starts I'm lost in it's dark, gothic world. I actually think that ALIEN boasts perhaps the finest title sequence of ... http://filmjournal.net/ghostof82/2008/04/24/everybody-loves-the-alien/ There's a wonderful story about SAVE THE TIGER, recounted by the film's director, John Avildsen, on the DVD's commentary track. It was 1972, and Paramount had left the film on the shelf, not sure what to do with it. It was a harrowing film, documenting 36 hours in the life ... http://filmjournal.net/ghostof82/2008/04/19/jack-lemmon-save-the-tiger/ We all have our guilty pleasures, and AVANTI is one of mine. Released back in 1972, it appears now as a quaint time-capsule, an example of a forgotten kind of movie. They simply don't make them like this anymore. Many will see that as a good thing... but not me. It's an oddly charming ... http://filmjournal.net/ghostof82/2008/04/16/jack-lemmon-avanti/ Five years before THE PRISONER OF SECOND AVENUE, Jack Lemmon appeared in another Neil Simon-penned movie, THE OUT OF TOWNERS. It would share, with the later film, the setting of New York, but from a different perspective, as the title suggests. Whereas in the superior 1975 film Lemmon and Bancroft ... http://filmjournal.net/ghostof82/2008/04/12/jack-lemmon-the-out-of-towners/