Marcello Matroianni has been at it for a full week. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/07/05/l...

My follow-up piece to Fiona's piece on BACKROOMS. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/07/03/t...

We loved BACKROOMS and @monsterfromid66.bsky.social was moved to write about it: dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/07/02/w...

Daniel Kremer's jumbo video essay gives us all something to aim for. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/07/01/z...

A Bunuel movie bristling with Christs. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/06/30/a...

L'Herbier Goes Bananas. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/06/27/l...

LA DOLCE VITA creates cinematic beauty sometimes with quite simple means. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/06/24/l...

Old King Cole issued a decree commanding his subjects to eat shredded cabbage with mayonnaise, and that's why we call it coleslaw.

For some reason I didn't think THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE was going to be amazing, but it is amazing. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/06/23/t...

LA DOLCE VITA, Day 3, night 3. Enter the Blessed Virgin Mary (not pictured). dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/06/17/l...

Day 2, night 2 of LA DOLCE VITA, which means it's time to roll up our trouser legs and hit the fountain. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/06/09/l...

The life of Galileo, in under ten minutes, without words, or facts. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/06/07/t...

So, going to write about the seven days and nights + one morning of LA DOLCE VITA. Starting here: dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/06/05/l...

If industrial hellscaping is your thing, Anrzej Munk's THE STARS MUST BURN may be very much your also-thing. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/06/04/f...

Arthur Lope Present Eunice Pottering and Bruce Whybrow in TELL ME NO THINGS With Hymie Clacker Steve Pantheon Vanessa Moat, and Jon Snavely-Vipond. Written by Owsley Porkins. Story by S. Mulberry Hurricane. Produced by Venture Thwappe. Directed by Milton Width. A Tiger-Clavicle Release.

Wardrobe Productions presents Eve Loam and Barry Trickle in WRONG DANGER With Mandom Slat Britta Praxis and Tillie Strangled. Based on the novella THE SHEEP KEY by Shaftsbury Clinch. Screenplay by Norma Hound. Produced by Red Bottom. Directed by Montague Shave. Released thru Diamond-Bean-Otter.

Boris Sleeve Presents Dick Wisp and Jobyna Trestle in OPEN OTHER END With Harry Gloat Wendy Chair Spoyd Buckle and Bart Yeasty. Written by Otto Shoulder & Myrna Highchimney. Produced by Florrison Clout. Directed by Raspy Whinge. Controlled in the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland by Lard.

Basil Fiend Presents Alma Bunk and Winslow Mattock in BAD WINDOW With Hilda Penge Bristol Cuppa and V. Poole Monkey. Screenplay by Dean Chitters. Produced by Trod Milky & Barium Husk. Directed by C. Turpentine Steeple. Released Through Muck-Vestibule.

Horace Froug Presents Pete Hint and Ellen Waddle in DAMP PASSAGE With Weena Pouch Vic Whopper Tiny Hurrah and Margot Thighs. Screenplay by Myron Teeth & Spiro F.K. Walloon. From the novel by Mabel Batscape. Produced by Chester Fickle. Directed by Paragon Stout. Released by Badger-Plywood.

Sir Run Run Briscoe Presents Trevor Clasp and Moyra Pyckles in THE FOUR ENIGMAS OF GLADSTONE HAVOC With Haroun Naseby Albert Shattock Buzz Hoyden and Clifford Sudden Produced by Wilf Pube Directed by W. Nylon Thursday. A Beagle-Pylon Production Distributed by Nectarine-Thigh.

The racism in 48 HRS is pretty startling. I didn't even have time to get into the portrayal of the "Indian". dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/06/03/h...

WEEEE! dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/05/31/t...

Summer's here, so it's time to watch Awful British Comedians, somehow. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/05/27/h...

Two public information films, one to make you traumatised about sewing machines, the other to make you jolly about incendiary bombs. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/05/26/p...

Progress report on our most complicated video essay to date: dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/05/21/w...

Kay Francis in MANDALAY is not just a clothes-horse -- in fact, she proves she can act with no clothes at all. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/05/19/m...

Mystery item No 12. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/05/15/n...

Cinematographer Mario Bava goes all film noir: dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/05/12/f...

A short disquisition on tit-for-tat routines. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/05/10/b...

This bloody country.

Love Molly Haskell but her Laurel & Hardy diatribe seems bizarrely off-base to me. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/05/07/s...

Three nightmare visions of a female future. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/05/02/m...

Censored scenes from Laurel & Hardy, first in a regular series. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/04/30/t...

I finally read Akutagawa's In the Grove and Rashomon. Great, a whole other contradictory version of what happened! dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/04/23/b...

You owe it to yourselves to see the most horrible, destructive and chaotic silent comedy ever: dcairns.wordpress.com

Given my love of Italian cinema and especially comedy, crazy it's taken me this long to see GUARDI I LADRI. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/04/17/t...

Robert Heinlein made some predictions. How's he doing? dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/04/16/t...

Catherine Spaak sexy and funny and near-psychopathically committed to her complicated love life in LA BUGIARDA. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/04/14/p...

"I was cured, all right."

TORA TORA AND STILL MORE TORA! dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/04/13/t...

Billy Bletcher, pursued by a giant lobster. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/04/11/l...

David Melville Wingrove returns (eternally) with more Cinema de Papa: Cocteau! Delannoy! Marais! dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/04/08/p...

tracing the Michael Powell-James Finlayson connection. If there is one. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/04/07/d...

The loud opinions of Tarantino collide with an unproduced script by the Coens. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/04/03/o...

Proud and chuffed to have contributed a video essay to this beauty: dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/04/02/o...

Two fantastic monologues by Charles Laughton, buoyed up by judicious use of reaction shots. What's the story? Edward Dmytryk has one he wants to sell you. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/03/31/l...

Claude Miller's GARDE A VUE very very fine. Creepy crime actorfest. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/03/28/t...

“THE STRANGE AFFAIR (1968), directed by David Greene, is one I’d always been interested in... The idea of Michael York as a police constable (Peter Strange) in swinging London is an intriguing one...” (by @dcairns.bsky.social) dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/03/26/a...

THE STRANGE AFFAIR is strange all right, also problematic. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/03/26/a...

HippFest 2026 offered Anna May Wong at her VERY best, beyond anything I expected from her. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/03/25/s...