Category: cinema

FilmFear and chills…Film Festival returns to HOME Mcr this Hallowe’en

September 10, 2019

October is about Hallowe’en and Hallowe’en is basically about films. Keep your costumes and candy (yes I know we’re British but the whole trick or treating is increasingly of the USA and essentially it was good alliteration. Last year’s FilmFear brought us many cinematic sensations but most of all Nicolas Cage being more Nicolas Cage … More FilmFear and chills…Film Festival returns to HOME Mcr this Hallowe’en

Film Review: Mrs Lowry & Son

August 28, 2019

One of my favourite sketches, amongst thousands (which, incidentally, does not include the bloody parrot one), is Monty  Python’s irreverent (could it be anything else) look at working class life: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2q1ojy Turning matters on their head, whilst t’father in ‘is rolled up sleeves, braces and britches, sweats over his work as an award-winning playwright in … More Film Review: Mrs Lowry & Son

Review: Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story

March 28, 2019

My mum told me this story of being at the cricket at Old Trafford. Frank Sidebottom had made a glorious appearance (actual Frank – there were many pretenders to the papier-mâché head aesthetic with ‘hilarious’ consequences…) In fact in Being Frank… John Thomson tells us of Chris Sievey getting out a scrap book he kept … More Review: Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story