Viv Wilby considers three films from 1980 which reflect how women’s roles were beginning to change.
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A Christmas Carols
You need to feel more Christmassy, right? So join Caitlin Watson as she assembles the perfect film version of Scrooge’s story.
Monoglot Movie Club: Jakarta The Unstoppable Sex Machine
Part of an occasional series in which Spank The Monkey travels to foreign countries, watches films in unfamiliar languages, and then complains about not understanding them. This episode: Indonesia, November 2014.
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Warning: Combustible Celluloid
In some places they mark they start of advent by turning on the Christmas Lights. At MostlyFilm we prefer to blow things up. Here are some of our most incendiary writers on their favourite movie explosions.
Mostly Links – 28 November 2014
It’s Christmas advert time, there’s no need to be afraid as Mostly Links takes a look at the best and worst of the web. Thank God it’s them instead of you.
The House of Him
Blake Backlash watches a low-budget horror film about power and misogyny.
Everyone’s Entitled To One Good Scare
The Tramp invites you to prepare for Mostly Film’s Halloween week by contemplating what frightens you.
Luna landscape
Dave McKean’s new film is a bit like a Julian Barnes novel with added CGI monsters. Surprisingly, the part that Spank The Monkey has a problem with is the CGI monsters.
Misery, punctuated by explosions
Continuing the theme of Thatcher’s legacy, Paul Duane revisits Contact, Alan Clarke’s 1985 drama about the British army in Northern Ireland.
Suitable for miners
Thirty years after the miners’ strike, Josephine Grahl reviews two recent films about it. Contains spoilers for Pride.
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