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Roger Moore’s death was the first of a cinematic James Bond (well, excluding David Niven in the first Casino Royale) – Sean Connery, born 1930, is still with us, as…
What title could improve on “War Of The Monsters”? What animated logo could beat that of American International Pictures, Inc. which opens this picture with an appropriately stern invocation of…
I mean, “A Clockwork Orange” is not what I would think of as a date movie…
So dominant a figure is Hank Williams even now that I thought I would approach him through the prism of some of the covers of his work. To start with…
This plays over the credits of the Coen Brothers’ wildly entertaining ode to the last days of the Hollywood Studio System, Hail Caesar! You’ll have to watch it to find…
Is Sergei Prokofiev’s score to Alexander Nevsky, the Eistenstein tale of a heroic Russian unifier defeating a Teutonic foe which was naturally enough suitable propaganda for Stalin, the greatest soundtrack…
This wonderful short film takes a very simple idea and executes it brilliantly, and in the process brings home forcefully the smallness of our world in the solar system and…
Séamus Sweeney 