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WolfmanOz at the Movies #72
Damn you all to hell ! In the year 1968, two movies came out that changed modern day science-fiction films forever – Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey has been the most celebrated out of the two (and my all-time favourite movie), but Planet Of The Apes stands on its own ground and has…
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WolfmanOz at the Movies #71
The ultimate man of conscience It is a widely accepted axiom that it is easier to make a good movie out of a bad play than out of a good one; a bad play can be altered with a clear conscience so that its mishandled virtues are brought to the fore in a different medium,…
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WolfmanOz at the Movies #70
A Tale of the Christ There are some films that make a lasting impression when you see them for the first time, and Ben-Hur (the 1959 version) is one such movie for myself. I first saw it on a re-release in the early 1970s when my parents took the family to see it on a…
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Rabz’ Radio Show May 2023 – Country and Western
As proudly declared by Bob of his eponymous Country Bunker to Jake and Elwood as the latter two search for gigs to raise some funds for the Penguin’s orphanage property tax bill. When you’re on a mission from God, all bets are off. Having said that, I am not a fan of this musical…
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WolfmanOz at the Movies #68
Hope is a good thing Was what prisoner Andy Dufresne says to his fellow prisoner and close friend Ellis “Red” Redding in the superlative prison drama film The Shawshank Redemption. Released in 1994, the film was a box-office disappointment and despite being nominated for a swag of awards it wasn’t until its release on VHS…
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WolfmanOz at the Movies #67
Those who about to die salute you With the introduction of cinemascope/widescreen in 1953 starting with The Robe, cinema saw a growing popularity of Biblical/historical epics throughout the 1950s and 1960s. One of the best, and, certainly one of the most discussed was Stanley Kubrick’s 1960 film Spartacus. The film was inspired by the life…
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WolfmanOz at the Movies #66
Star of stage, screen and alimony Was the epitaph suggested for himself by actor and comedian Peter Sellers. Sellers was a prodigious talent, touching on genius at times, although almost all of his best work had been completed by the mid 1960s. Born Richard Henry Sellers in 1925. He began accompanying his parents in a…
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WolfmanOz at the Movies #65
Follow the money Is the phrase, master screenwriter William Goldman attributed to Deep Throat (aka Mark Felt), the informant who took part in revealing the truth behind the June 1972 Watergate break-in in the superb 1976 political thriller All The President’s Men, although the phrase did not appear in the book or in any of the…
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Rabz’ Radio Show April Fool’s Day 2023 – Romance, love and fractured cardio organs
Cats, the topic above is what contemporary music has always revelled in. A rich vein of subject matter, so to speak. You’re romancing a personage of the opposite sex – you listen to lots of music about that phenomenon, while imagining that nothing could ever be wrong with the world. Being incapable of thinking about…