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WolfmanOz at the Movies #86
It’s going to be a bumpy night. Born on April 5th, 1908 and died on October 6th, 1989, Ruth Elizabeth “Bette” Davis was one of the greatest, if not the greatest actress from Hollywood’s Golden Era in a career spanning more than 50 years and 100 acting credits. She was noted for playing unsympathetic, sardonic…
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WolfmanOz at the Movies #85
Watch the skies. Was the working title for Steven Spielberg’s 1977 science fiction classic Close Encounters Of The Third Kind. Anticipation was very high for this film as it would be Spielberg’s follow-up to his hugely successful 1975 horror thriller Jaws. Was Jaws just a one-off fluke or was a new and exciting director now…
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WolfmanOz at the Movies #84
Opening Credits. Something a little different this week. There are many things I dislike about movies today and one of my pet hates is the incessant production credits at the beginning of a movie which can take around 5 minutes to unfurl. So five minutes into a movie the audience is already bored whilst they…
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WolfmanOz at the Movies #83
Tears in rain. Released in 1982, there were high expectations for Blade Runner. Directed by Ridley Scott it was his next film after the hugely successful science fiction horror classic Alien. Anticipation was extremely high but Blade Runner underperformed in North American theatres and polarised many critics; some praised its thematic complexity and visuals, while…
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WolfmanOz at the Movies #82
They fought like seven hundred. The Magnificent Seven (released in 1960) is an American western directed by John Sturges which is a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 Japanese film Seven Samurai, which in turn took its inspiration from American westerns. Seven Samurai is often hailed by film critics as one of the greatest films ever made but I’ll will…
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Rabz’ Radio Show Spring 2023 – Jazz
Many people would describe this as the perfect music when one would like to kick back and relaxatrate (or Relaxin’). They would not be incorrect. Jazz, by its very nature, is unpredictable, with the emphasis on the concept of “improvisation”. Jazz is “a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana,…
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WolfmanOz at the Movies #81
Feed the French. Kill the Germans. Well its been over a month since I lasted posted and I feel sufficiently refreshed and with time on my hand again to resume posting. So to start the ball rolling again I’ve selected a movie that has been requested by a number of Cats. Set during the World…
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Wednesday, not the day, the girl …
Tim Burton’s Wednesday, Cats – I was hugely sceptical until having realised the immensely talented adidas fan Miss Jenna Ortega had also appeared in various other televisual feasts I’d recently seen, most notably the second season of “You”. Spoiler Alerts, Cats … “Wednesday” may be among the last few gasps of Hollyweird greatness, which of…
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Sport – who really pays
After the Matildas lost their game to England last Wednesday the TV talking heads tried to outdo each other in their calls for more government spending on sport. It was probably inevitable that, sensing an opportunity to appease the women’s lobby and maybe garner a couple of votes, Albo swung into action and pledged $200…
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Rabz’ Radio Show August 2023: Cars
There has always been an intimate link between cars and contemporary music and car stereos (aka sound systems) enable the immediacy of that link. As the (almost) ultimate freedom machines, cars can enable a young man to impress an aesthetically pleasing young woman in more ways than might be immediately obvious. However – there is…