Looking Back Friday
Looking Back Friday – The Bedford Incident (1965)
This week, FRC’s favourite guest poster, Jack Deth is back to provide us with another dissection of a classic piece of cinema, The Bedford Incident. Greeting all and sundry! It is not often that I fall ill to the vagaries and temperature shifts between winter and spring. Though when it...
Looking Back Friday – Full Metal Jacket (1987)
For this weeks looking back article, Sam is here to talk about the Stanley Kubrick Vietnam classic, Full Metal Jacket The Vietnam War has been the subject of many films. Whether it’s Francis Ford Coppola’s acclaimed Apocalypse Now (1979) or Oliver Stone’s brutally honest Platoon (1986), it’s a topic of conversation that has been thoroughly...
Looking Back Friday – The List of Adrian Messenger (1963)
It is Friday people, which not only is the end of the week but is also the day of another looking back post. This week the great Jack Deth is back to wax lyrical about another film he loves… Welcome all and sundry! Once more, I am going to take...
Looking Back Friday – City Lights
With the recent success of The Artist it seems only fair to take a look back at one of the all time classic silent films, Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights, and its lasting legacy on cinema today. In an era when sound was fast becoming the favoured method of Hollywood directors, Chaplin took a...
Looking Back Friday – 12 Angry Men (1957)
This week Sam looks at the Lumet classic and much loved courtroom drama, 12 Angry men… In 12 Angry Men we have twelve gentlemen who must make a ruling of a murder case in which a younger boy is accused of using a blade knife to stab his father in the chest....
Looking Back Friday – The Big Sleep
Jack Deth is back with another in-depth dissection of a Bogart classic, the second in the debate Bogart vs Bogart, this time it is the turn of The Big Sleep Greetings, all and sundry! I would like to thank Scott for the opportunity to follow up on the question posited...
Looking Back Friday – To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
With the re-release and re-master of To Kill a Mockingbird looming, Scott takes time to look at why it is considered a classic. Right in the middle of the Civil Rights Era a whole bucket of films were released that claimed to preach Racial Equality. The two most often mentioned...
Looking Back Friday – The Maltese Falcon
It is Friday, and that means it is time for us to look back again at a cinema classic. Prolific Guest poster Jack Deth investigates a true Bogart classic, The Maltese Falcon Greetings all and sundry! I would like to thank Scott for the opportunity to posit a question that...
