Skip to content

MostlyFilm

“A Blog Mostly About Film”

Monthly Archives: December 2011

23/12/11 A Festive Pause

MostlyFilm will be back in the new year. In the meantime, why not enjoy this picture of Rita Hayworth up a ladder?

22/12/11 The Devil and George Bailey

By Neil Hargreaves Snow falls into the black river beneath him. George knows how cold the water would be – he still has nightmares about going under to rescue his brother. As he remembers, the ear that the cold killed starts to tingle, and at first George thinks it’s because of the memories. But then [...]

21/12/11 MostlyChristmas: The Grinch Who Stole Christmas Number One

by MrMoth What’s your favourite Christmas Number One? Regular viewers of BBC4’s excellent comedy drama Top of the Pops 1976 will soon be treated to a Christmas Number One very dear to my heart – Johnny Mathis’s When a Child Is Born. Dear to my heart in that it was number one when I, much [...]

20/12/11 MostlyChristmas: favourite Christmas movies, part 2

After yesterday’s collection of heartwarming Christmas classics, today we bring you the seamier, sexier, more eeevil side of cell-yule-loid (you’re welcome). Night of the Meek by Paul Duane Yeah, it’s a TV show episode (from The Twilight Zone)- the name of the site is Mostly Film, right?

19/12/11 MostlyChristmas: favourite Christmas movies, part 1

Mostly Film has come over a touch festive this week, and will be bringing you a Christmas-themed post every day. Today and tomorrow, some of our  contributors recommend their favourite movies for the festive season. Today, adopting the Santa Claus classification, the nice ones. Tomorrow, the naughty. Sort of. Don’t hold me to that. It’s a [...]

16/12/11 MostlyFilm’s Best of 2011 – True Grit

by Matthew Turner My favourite film of 2011, hands down, is True Grit, the Coen Brothers’ Oscar nominated adaptation of the novel by Charles Portis. I’m a huge Coen Brothers fan (they’re my favourite current directors and only Michel “The Artist” Hazanavicius is their equal when it comes to pastiche) but when I heard that [...]

15/12/11 MostlyFilm’s Best of 2011 – Videogames

by MrMoth I am spectacularly under-qualified to write this, but when has that ever stopped me? I did a pop column for six months, despite being quite clearly a man in his mid-thirties. So here I am writing about the best videogames of 2011 having only played about ten in total. I haven’t had a [...]

14/12/11 MostlyFilm’s Best of 2011 – The Book of Mormon

by Spank the Monkey Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s animated TV series, South Park, first hit our screens in 1997, about the same time as domestic internet access was beginning to take off. It was the first TV show I can remember being widely, let’s say, distributed across the web, a factor that probably contributed [...]

13/12/11 MostlyFilm’s Best of 2011 – A Separation

by Adam Howard In a year full of big-name directors making big, messy, ambitious films – see The Tree of Life, Melancholia, Black Swan – I suppose it makes sense that one of the very best of the year would be a quiet little character piece, its ambitions only to capture life in all its [...]

12/12/11 MostlyFilm’s Best of 2011 – Submarine

by Paul Shuttle In the largely subjective realm of film criticism, there can be few more useful barometers of quality than whether you were moved to again return to a film once your review had been filed. The process by which a critic arrives at their film of the year may be a tortuous one [...]

Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.

Join 63 other followers