POWAQQATSI: LIFE IN TRANSFORMATION Review: This is an exploration of technologically developing nations and also the effect that transition to Western-style modernisation has had on them. It… Read more “Powaqqatsi: Life in Transformation”
Category: 1980s
Koyaanisqatsi
KOYAANISQATSI Review: A collection of expertly photographed phenomena which has no conventional plot. All the footage shown focuses on nature, humanity and the relationship between them all.… Read more “Koyaanisqatsi”
Prick Up Your Ears
PRICK UP YOUR EARS Review: A celebration of playwright Joe Orton and his love affair with Kenneth Halliwell. It concludes with their violent and premature deaths. Director: Stephen… Read more “Prick Up Your Ears”
An Officer and a Gentleman
AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN Review: Zack Mayo aspires to be a navy pilot. He arrives at the Navy Flight school to become an aviator for a 13-week course. Hr… Read more “An Officer and a Gentleman”
Local Hero
LOCAL HERO Review: An American oil company sends a man to Scotland. This is in the hope of buying an entire village where they want to build a… Read more “Local Hero”
A Room with a View
A ROOM WITH A VIEW Review: Set during the Edwardian era of England. Lucy Honeychurch and chaperone Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence, Italy with rooms without… Read more “A Room with a View”
Dirty Dancing
DIRTY DANCING Review: A young teenage girl named Frances goes on a summer holiday with her family to a resort hotel in the Catskills. She falls in love with… Read more “Dirty Dancing”
Licence to Kill
LICENCE TO KILL Review: We see James Bond working on his own rather than on behalf of the British Secret Service. He sets off to unleash vengeance on a… Read more “Licence to Kill”
Brazil
BRAZIL Review: A surrealist nightmare of a bureaucrat in the retro-future world who tries to correct an administrative error. He then becomes an enemy of the state.… Read more “Brazil”
