I have very fond memories of playing with my G.I. Joe’s and Construx on the carpet in the living room of my parent’s old New Haven home -their rug I now recall as an imagery world, that would encompass the area from under the bay window where lived in front a massive 16″ Quasar cabinet television, to the large wooden coffee table […]
Posts Tagged ‘The Boys From Brazil’
Georges Arnaud’s Wages of Fear
Posted: 29th May 2014 by Dion in Art, Books, Film, Film Review, History, Podwit ProfileTags: Alfred Hithcock, American Werewolf in London, Chester Himes, Dashiell Hammett, Diabolique, Flesh and Fire, Georges Arnaud, Henri-Georges Clouzot, James M. Cain, Jeff Ryan, Le Salaire de la Peur, Les Diabolique, Mickey Spillane, Nintendo, Norman Dale, Rage, Raymond Chandler, Scarface, Sorcerer, Super Mario Bros, Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America, The Boys From Brazil, The Harlem Cycle, The Last Man on Earth, Wages of Fear, William Friedkin
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Facing Childhood Fears: Revisiting John Carpenter’s Assault on Precinct 13
Posted: 21st September 2012 by Dion in Film, Film ReviewTags: Assault on Precinct 13, George C Scott, George Romero, Gregory Peck, Halloween, Howard Hawks, John Carpenter, Kim Richards, Night of the Living Dead, Quentin Tarantino, Rage, Rio Bravo, Sorcerer, The Boys From Brazil, The Fog, The Last Man on Earth, The Thing, Vincent Price, William Friedkin
It’s interesting what images stay with you from childhood, still crisp as the day they were viewed. I know like most kids growing up, in what sadly seems already like another time, I was exposed to a lot of television and film at a very early age, which made me into what I am today […]