Trailer time! dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/09/25/t...

I thought I had to watch STAR! at some point in my life, but I may have been mistaken. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/09/21/t...

Red. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/09/20/s...

Baz Lurpak's ELVIS. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/09/19/b...

I struggle with Michael Mann. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/09/18/m...

An accidental jumpcut creates a weird, unintended flourish: dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/09/17/s...

Made a couple more video essays... dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/09/16/t...

I make my long-delayed rendezvous with Shimizu. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/a...

Snub Pollard kickstarter? Take my money! dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/09/14/t...

Andre Cayatte's WE ARE ALL MURDERERS is one of his many legal dramas. This one tackles the death penalty. It packs a wallop. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/09/13/g...

Marcel Ayme is one strange writer. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/a...

Ann Sheridan in WOMAN ON THE RUN isn't actually on the run, but that is my only real criticism of this excellent noir. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/09/11/d...

THE VANISHING SHADOW... vanishes. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/09/10/t...

An obscure Dashiell Hammett story becomes an obscure Dashiell Hammett movie. Not bad, though. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/h...

William Dieterle, HOT PRIEST. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/09/08/a...

1933. The Third Reich commands "pure Aryans" in Hollywood to return home. But the examples given are... odd. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/09/07/a...

Walking through walls for fun and profit. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/09/06/i...

THE MIRROR HAS TWO FACES, version originale. Andre Cayatte for once steers clear (mostly) of crime and punishment, and concentrates on beauty (and beastliness). dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/09/05/c...

Media says missing 1m of Epstein footage has been released. But I understood that in fact *3M* had been deleted. So we're still missing 2m. Media has forgotten all about this. Also, new footage has different timecode. So both timecodes have been added in afterwards and are not reliable, right?

If you want to watch a big dumb robot bashing into doorframes, smashing through double doors and getting caught in curtains, and lingering petrified at the top of staircases... I may have something for you. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/t...

Jimmy the robot has trouble with doors and stairs. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/t...

Page 66 of the internet has GONE DARK. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/09/01/p...

The moon, as I see her, appears to Melies and Andre Deed. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/08/31/t...

Good baddies. Complex AND formidable. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/08/30/g...

ROBOT RAMPAGE! dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/t...

What happens when Randolph Scott rides into a town that can't be saved? dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/08/28/w...

In which several books and films fail to be Gravity's Rainbow. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/08/26/p...

This week, page 66 of the internet deals with medical matters. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/08/25/p...

Changing your name after you're famous is usually unwise. Doing so multiple times might make you... Foolshead. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/08/24/t...

My favourite new film from Edinburgh Film Fest was the lovely SORRY, BABY: dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/08/23/f...

this link should? work - if it does, expand to full screen, volume UP archive.org/details/the-...

A very distinctive tree, having evidently become as fond of Randolph Scott as I have, follows him out of RIDE LONESOME and into COMANCHE STATION. A case of one woody perennial responding to another?

Bernard Lee is spying for the Soviets! Alert Moneypenny! dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/08/20/d...

Thar's gunna be a gundown at Sundown in DECISION AT SUNDOWN. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/08/19/s...

Cretinetti takes on a wrestler, his wife, a small boy, the world, and himself. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/08/17/t...

Jeremy Thomas holds aloft Gene Hackman's lodestone from EUREKA. Plus: two pressing questions about BAD TIMING. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/08/16/p...

DR NO and BAD TIMING make for a strange day's viewing. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/08/15/r...

Comencini's THE CAT is very, very black. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/08/14/c...

Page 66 of the internet deals entirely with MONSTERS. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/08/11/p...

Oh! I didn't realise moderately able British comedy director Walter Forde began as a moderately able slapstick comedian. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/08/10/t...

The great Raymond Bernard essays a Pirandellian film on filmmaking: dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/08/09/b...

It's taken me ages to get around to the good Budd Boetticher movies. I had seen some, just not the good ones. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/08/08/v...

Revisiting 28 Days Later, at least in memory. And I'm going to try to convince you it's not as good as you remember it. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/08/07/r...

Punchyfighty! dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/08/06/t...

THE BLUE MAX plays mostly as lavish but uninvolving but is redeemed by a striking finish. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/08/05/m...

Can you create a new shovel WITHOUT a heap of ash in it, by moving only two of the toothpicks? dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/08/02/1...

in THE SHOES OF THE FISHERMAN we get a shot stolen from Vittorio De Sica's BICYCLE THIEVES -- and we also get Vittorio De Sica (centre). dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/08/01/t...

Henri Decoin's L'AFFAIRE DES POISONS inaugurates a new series by David Melville on the "cinema du papa". dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/07/31/p...

Guest Shadowplayer David Melville Wingrove celebrates the Cinema du Papa as only he can: dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/07/31/p...