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Valley Of The Dolls 2 stars☆☆☆☆☆

4th April 2019 by Sarah Leave a Comment

I knew the clothes would be terrific when I spotted Handbags by… in the opening credits. And it’s the outfits (along with the unintentionally fevered atmosphere) which stretches this film up to two stars. Small town girl turned New York secretary turned Hollywood model Anne Welles is elegant in a yellow maxi dress, a tight… Valley Of The Dolls Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: 1960s, drugs, hollywood, movies, singer, women

The Shape Of Water 5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

14th February 2018 by Sarah Leave a Comment

This is an ode to gods and monsters, and fittingly it is set in the early 1960s – when America has become used to strange creatures on screen, warning us of our failings as a species, or terrifying us into submission. And with so many B-movies allegories for East-West relations, it’s also appropriate that The… The Shape Of Water Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: 1960s, Baltimore, cold war, space race

The Endless Summer 3.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

10th November 2017 by Sarah Leave a Comment

Australia may have turned out to be a disappointment wave-wise, and a worry shark-wise for Mike and Robert, but though Endless Summer came out nearly a decade before Jaws, I had to laugh at the locals’ comment: “Jeez Mike, you should’ve been here yesterday. We had a bigger boat!” This is a movie that exists… The Endless Summer Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: 1960s, bruce brown, cape st francis, counter culture, hawaii, pipeline, surfers, surfing

Myths, Melodrama & Swedish Meatballs – Q&A With Love Witch Director Anna Biller

3rd April 2017 by Sarah 2 Comments

Anna Biller as Barbi in 1970s-set sex comedy Viva

“The style that a lot of people attribute to B-movies and melodramas is just classical, theatrical acting… and all of my actors were classically trained. So they have strong voices, they speak clearly and enunciate. I have a musical ear, so I like to listen to actors with beautiful voices” Anna Biller After watching writer/director Anna Biller’s 2016… Myths, Melodrama & Swedish Meatballs – Q&A With Love Witch Director Anna Biller Read More

Filed Under: Interviews, Support Indie Film Tagged With: 1960s, 1970s, actor director, anna biller, anna biller interview, feminism, film making interview, independent filmmaking, independent films, jared sandford, love witch director, playboy magazine, sex comedies, viva, witchcraft, women directors, women film makers, women scriptwriters

Love Witch 5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

15th March 2017 by Sarah Leave a Comment

...and this one was for all the men who'd told her she should be behind a stove in the kitchen

Check out my interview with Love Witch director Anna Biller here. “Who ARE you?” asks Richard, married to Trish but besotted with Elaine who is lying semi-naked beneath him. “I’m the Love Witch!” she exclaims, “I’m your ultimate fantasy!” Women have long been lusted after and feared in equal measure by men, for their feminine wiles that seem… Love Witch Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews, Support Indie Film Tagged With: 1960s, anna biller, gian keys, love potion, love witch, love witch film, love witch movie, love witch review, samantha robinson, technicolor

Hidden Figures 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

20th February 2017 by Sarah Leave a Comment

Looking at her calculations they could definitely get a man to the moon by 1969 and a woman to the White House by... er... well they could definitely get a man to the moon by 1969

Space travel is almost a religion in 1960s America, with NASA its church and the clever, brave and handsome astronauts its would-be Messiahs. To the extent that for three black women, informing an aggressively racist white cop who has appeared by their broken down vehicle that they actually work for the space programme results in an admiring escort to their… Hidden Figures Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: 1960s, african american, al harrison, colored bathrooms, computer, discrimination, dorothy vaughan, engineering, hidden figures, ibm, john glenn, katherine johnson, Langley Research Center, Mahershala Ali, mary jackson, math, mathematicians, nasa, project mercury, segregation, space race, Space Task Group, west area computers

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Reviews

Netflix and chill: the film club discusses The Pale Blue Eye 3 stars☆☆☆☆☆

See How They Run 3.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Maneater 2 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Clarkson’s Farm (TV series, season 1) 4.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

The Reef: Stalked 3 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Persuasion 2 stars☆☆☆☆☆

GATLOPP: Hell Of A Game 3 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Jurassic World: Dominion 2.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Top Gun: Maverick 5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Senior Year 3 stars☆☆☆☆☆

H20h no! The Film Club watches Black Water: Abyss 2 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? (TV mini series) 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Sonic The Hedgehog 2 3 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Pursuit Of A Jigsaw (short film) Short Film 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Operation Mincemeat 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Reed’s Point 2 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Let The Wrong One In 3.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Death On The Nile 3.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Deep Water 2.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Moonfall 3 stars☆☆☆☆☆

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