Shoot the Glass

In 8½, which is an autobiographical film of Fellini’s, we meet Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni), a film director. Guido can’t find any inspiration for his upcoming movie, and his life is spiralling out of control. He can’t get a moment’s peace, as he keeps getting accosted from all sides: actors want to know what the [...]

For some reason, this second movie in Leone’s “dollars” trilogy was the only one I hadn’t seen. Well, calling it a trilogy is really something of a misnomer, since the three are only loosely connected. And using “the man with no name” is not really correct either, since Clint Eastwood’s characters do have names (or [...]

When the American Film Institute updated their list of the 100 best movies of all time in 2007, In the Heat of the Night was one of the new inclusions.
In tells the story of Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier), an African American detective from Philadelphia. He has gone home to the south to visit his mother, [...]

Inherit the Wind is based on a play by the same name, and is a fictionalised account of the 1925 Scopes “Monkey” Trial. Don’t worry, I didn’t know much about this beforehand either. Basically, you have a high school teacher who’s on trial for teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution to his class — which was [...]

This movie tells the story of the Algerian civil war and struggle for independance from France in the 50s and 60s. It shows us in detail the Algerians fighting back against what they perceive as oppression, and the French military who refuse to let go of their colony.
This was an interesting movie for me to [...]