Blind Spot: Full Metal Jacket
Going into this film, I’d heard that it breaks cleanly into two parts, and that most people vastly prefer the first part. Coming out of it, the first statement is self-evident, but I ended up liking...
View ArticleBlindspotting: The 36th Chamber Of Shaolin and Five Deadly Venoms
You may notice a distinct difference in the quality of the screen caps contained within this post. 36th Chamber Of Shaolin has a proper widescreen aspect ratio and clear image (straight from the...
View ArticleBlindspotting: Ride The High Country and Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid
The Wild Bunch is not my favourite Sam Peckinpah film. There, I’ve said it. Even worse, though, is that I don’t particularly like it. The stylized violence in the opening and closing battles is...
View ArticleBlindspotting: East Of Eden and Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf
There are some who believe that Good and Evil are two very distinct objectively defined entities and that things and ideas are black or white, true or false, moral or immoral. Some would say that...
View ArticleBlindspotting: A Night At The Opera and The Navigator
I remember a Saturday evening many years ago sitting down with my Dad to watch the Marx Brothers. I think we had tuned into PBS around 7PM and a double bill of Monkey Business and Horse Feathers was...
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