Stanley KuBLOG: Barry Lyndon – A Stanley Kubrick Retrospective
Barry Lyndon is Stanley Kubrick’s tenth feature film. It came after a series of magnificent successes capped by the trauma of A...
Read MoreStanley KuBLOG: A Clockwork Orange – A Stanley Kubrick Retrospective
A Clockwork Orange is what happens when a master filmmaker decides to deliberately make an ugly film. Following the ecstatic star journey...
Read MoreStanley KuBLOG – 2001: A Space Odyssey – A Stanley Kubrick Retrospective
I have a relationship with 2001: a Space Odyssey. It was the first film I really booked on TV to see. As a kid, I was going to my uncle...
Read MoreStanley KuBLOG: Dr Strangelove (or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb) – A Stanley Kubrick Retrospective
Dr. Strangelove is damned near perfect. Hell, it simply is perfect. From the title with its death wish Nazi sentiment matched with the...
Read MoreBond Blog: From Russia With Love
Released in 1963 and based on Ian Fleming’s 1957 novel, From Russia with Love is the second outing for Sean Connery as James Bond...
Read MoreOn Her Majesty’s Secret Bond Blog: Introduction and Dr. No!
My relationship with James Bond 007 began young. I can’t remember the very first Bond film at all but it is probably a Sean Connery on...
Read MoreStanley KuBLOG: Lolita – A Stanley Kubrick Retrospective
Lolita is an odd film but is a first for Kubrick. His first non-genre film, the adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov’s 1955 novel, tells...
Read MoreStanley KuBLOG: Paths of Glory – A Stanley Kubrick Retrospective
Stanley Kubrick’s fourth feature film Paths of Glory is his first to establish him as the complete product. This is the first of his...
Read MoreStanley KuBLOG: The Killing – A Stanley Kubrick Retrospective
Okay, we can stop mucking about now. After a couple of shaky starts, Kubrick with The Killing finally makes a fantastic film. Released in...
Read MoreStanley KuBLOG: Killer’s Kiss – A Stanley Kubrick Retrospective
Davey Gordon (Jamie Smith) is a 29-year-old welterweight New York boxer at the fag end of his career. Across from his apartment, he...
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