Category Archives: MF Recommends
April 20, 2012 Stoked
It’s a hundred years since Bram Stoker had his head removed, and a stake driven through his heart died, and, sure, it’s Friday so I could’ve just found a picture of him eating some KFC and we’d all be happy. But sometimes, oh, things just get out of hand and here are some of our [...]
Tags: Bram Stoker, Daughters of Darkness, Dracula, Dracula Pages From a Virgin's Diary, eek, Fascination, grr, Innocent Blood, monsters, Mr Vampire, vampires
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April 10, 2012 Personal Jesuses
Well, we managed to get through the whole of Easter without anyone shouting ‘No one fucks with the Jesus!’, but it’s Tuesday now. It’s all over. Wipe the chocolate off your face and point your eyes at this selection of idiosyncratic messiahs.
Tags: AI Artificial Intelligence, Ferngully, Jesus, Life of Brian, The Big Lebowski, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Matrix, the second coming, The Seventh Sign
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April 2, 2012 Obscure Gems Two: Revenge of the Obscure.
Back in what we shall call The Day, MostlyFilm recommended twelve obscure gems, promising that this was the start of an occasional series. In the meantime, MostlyFilm Recommends has blossomed to give you overlooked sequels, Christmas films (nice and not so nice) and cult Australian cinema, but we’ve never got round to giving you more [...]
Tags: Basil Dearden, Better Off Dead, Diana Rigg, Hearts of the West, Howard Zieff, Jeff Bridges, Jindrich Polák, John Cusack, Ninja 3, Oliver Reed, Sam Firstenberg, Savage Steve Holland, Slobodan Sijan, Strangler vs Strangler, The Assassination Bureau, Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea
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December 20, 2011 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?
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December 19, 2011 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 [...]
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September 20, 2011 At the Mountains of the Night Garden
Mr Moth discusses CBeebies and the rational adult I am still on the island. Days pass, I have no idea how many, and they all seem the same. Every day brings fresh madness, every day is my worst day ever, every day brings me closer to the source of that infernal music. The music! It [...]
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September 5, 2011 Assignment: Terror
Uncle Frank creeps from behind the couch to let us know about the best and worst of FrightFest 2011 Horror is a broad church, and the FrightFest 2011 programme reflected that. 37 films, mostly British or American in origin but with a solid international selection, meant most people could reasonably expect to find something to [...]
Tags: FrightFest
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September 2, 2011 2011: A Film Odyssey
Philip Concannon previews More4′s history of film and cinematic innovation “At the end of the 1800s, a new art form flickered in to life. It looked like our dreams.” The Story of Film is a story told through moments; images thematically linked to tell us how this art form, created by inventors and visionaries in [...]
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August 31, 2011 Cult Australian Cinema
September sees the release of The Eye of the Storm, directed by Fred Schepisi and based on the novel by Patrick White. It’s Schepisi’s first film in eight years (not including the award-winning HBO mini-series Empire Falls), and his first film made in Australia since A Cry in the Dark in 1988. MarvMarsh takes a [...]
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August 22, 2011 Cinema Week: Astoria7, Swiss Centre Nil
Spank The Monkey visits an old cinema come back from the grave What happens to old cinemas when they die? I’ve lived in London for over a quarter of a century, and I’ve seen a few go in my time. As discussed on this very site recently, the Scala has been a music venue for [...]
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