La Notte (1961)

La Notte (1961; aka The Night) is the middle of Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni’s trilogy including L’Aventura and L’Eclisse, and the one I’d always wanted to see. Antonioni’s slow, dispassionate style is intentionally alienating and difficult to wrestle with; I completely understand those who get bored by his work. Yet I do find something of […]

Trash Classics: Program 2

Screened: Jan 28 – June 24, 2021Luna Leederville Trash Classics revives the spirit of the VHS bargain bin and DVD rental aisle onto the big screen with a cult movie favourite the last Friday of each month. Whether you are a raging fan or a curious newbie, these titles range from ‘so bad it’s good’ […]

Wheels On Meals (1984)

I knew SBS Cult Movies screened Wheels On Meals (1984) occasionally on a Saturday night, much as they would any Jackie Chan Hong Kong martial arts flick from the 1980s, and all I recalled was that Jackie rode around on rollerblades. Turns out that was a false memory implant and that it’s a skateboard you […]

How To Marry A Millionaire (1953)

Here’s to the first movie I watched that was new to me in 2021! A suggestion by Sally after seeing clips on a Classic Hollywood instagram account, How To Marry A Millionaire (1953) was a bright, funny romantic comedy set in New York City, one of the first movies from 20th Century Fox shot in […]

Hard Target (1993)

Retroactive Academy Award to Jan Alexander, credited Hair Stylist for Jean-Claude Van Damme on Hard Target (1993) and crafting one of the finest mullets to ever grace an action movie. Even though the theatrical release version of Hard Target, which I have watched countless times, is not John Woo’s director’s cut (apparently he was overruled […]