Having recently re-watched ‘Missing Believed Wiped‘, I stumbled across a pair of nice articles covering the lost and wiped dramas of Northern Ireland – a region that, like the rest of the UK, lost a number of pieces to a poor archiving policy and the the claws of the bulk eraser.
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Gamera vs. Zigra, 1971
The rather lovely (and incredibly kitschy!) poster for 1971’s Gamera vs. Zigra.
Brigaded
It seems Letterboxd is not immune to brigading…
Dave Made a Maze
An Oral History of 28 Days Later
Inverse has a short oral history of 28 Days Later – film I looked back at almost four years ago. It’s an interesting little piece and I’d not realise how close 9/11 had come to putting an end to the production of a film that, ultimately, turned out to be a major influence on the genre.
Rejected / Don Hertzfeldt (2000)
From 2000, the rather lovely Rejected by Don Hertzfeldt.
Recent Films
Don’t Worry Darling (2022)
Continue readingMissing Believed Wiped / Timeshift (BBC4 / 2003)
Recent films – Summer 2022
It’s been something of a slow summer season for films this year.
Layer Cake
And in the beginning there was ‘Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels‘, and the people saw it and liked it and told their friends, who also saw it and liked it and told their friends.,
And then, after some time, it had earned 28 million dollars on a budget of just 1.4 million.
And the film executives and producers and directors looked at this return and saw that it was good.
And thus began the late 90s wave of UK-based dramedy crime capers.
Continue readingStrangelove
The original Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb trailer. It’s probably still the best black comedy about the cold war I have seen.