The Best Films about the end of the World
Peeping Tom’s Home Cinema – Six of the best: Armageddon Bloody hell it’s countdown to the end of the world. No, not the Academy Awards ceremony though, fuck me, the nominations are doing a bloody good impersonation of the end of days (Spielberg’s War Horse nominated for best picture – are you fucking kidding me? [...]
Travel with Leigh Hart
It doesn’t matter where you are travelling, be it through Europe, Africa or the Orient, you always must be prepared. Leigh Hart gives us some more vital travel tips. For more from Leigh and the other champions at Moon TV, check out there YouTube channel by clicking the image below…
Contagion
Contagion Director: Steven Soderbergh Screenplay: Scott Z Burns With: Marion Cotillard, Matt Damon, Lawrence Fishburne, Jude Law, Gwynneth Paltrow & Kate Winslet You’ve gotta expect that I’d enjoy this kind of thing enormously. I mean, bunch of A-listers put in dire peril and knocked off one by one – it does wonders for your sense [...]
Peeping Tom’s Home Cinema – 12 Days of Christmas Special: 1972 Cinema’s Greatest Year
Everyone is going to have one specific year in which the cinematic stars align (and no I don’t mean over the top, big name disaster flicks that, when I come to think of it, get a serious injection of gripping campy brilliance in 1972 with the sublime Poseidon Adventure (4 pervious Oscar (up my arse) [...]
Peeping Tom’s Home Cinema – Six of the best: Ken Russell
I fucking love Ken Russell – though bugger me that’s loved now, as the most extravagant director in British cinema has died. And quietly, in hospital after suffering a series of strokes. Not extravagantly, willfully, crazily or colourfiully – a moment of stillness that would seem at odds with the tenor of his films. Or [...]
Peeping Tom’s Home Cinema – Six of the best: Metropolis
The on-going restoration of Fritz Lang’s 1927 melodramatic allegory now sees a further twenty minutes added to the running time following the discovery of yet more footage in Brazil a few years ago. Almost begins to sound like a Terry Gilliam moment in and of itself – only it might have been Argentina where the [...]