Next up in #Johnuary is John Carpenter’s The Thing! This is definitely a film that is up there in the cult zeitgeist, and I couldn’t believe I hadn’t seen it before. Some quick thoughts before I get a bit deeper… I love the cinematography of…
My next movie for #Johnuary was Escape from New York. Again I had never seen this before, but obviously I had heard so much about it and knew the name Snake Plissken very well. One thing I was looking forward to was seeing Kurt Russell…
Continuing #Johnuary, the next John Carpenter movie I watched was The Fog. I knew absolutely nothing about this movie before I watched it, other than it starred Jamie Lee Curtis. I didn’t even read any blurb about it. I just went in totally blind. In…
My next Carpenter movie to watch for #Johnuary was Halloween. I’d obviously heard so much about it and had always wanted to watch it but just had never gotten round to it. I’m not a huge horror fan, but am not against it in any…
If you haven’t already, please check out my post from yesterday explaining everything about #Johnuary. I’ll continue looking at John Carpenter’s filmography by tackling one of his best films, Assault on Precinct 13. I’ll cut straight to the chase. I loved this movie. Thoroughly enjoyed…
If you haven’t already, please check out my post from yesterday explaining everything about #Johnuary. This was certainly an interesting introduction to John Carpenter. Very much what some would call a student film. Very low budget, no recognisable actors and some pretty poor effects. But…
If you haven’t already, please check out my post from yesterday explaining everything about #Johnuary. John Carpenter Before I started Johnuary, I knew the name John Carpenter, but the only film I really knew that was his was The Thing. It helps that he puts…
Happy New Year everyone! Hope you all enjoyed the festivities. As the new year begins I wanted to start how I mean to go on. With lots of blog posts and a fun theme. So without further ado, welcome to JOHNUARY! Throughout my life I…
I’m writing this very late on Thursday 15th August 2016 having just come out of the cinema to see Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Firstly I will say that this review is VERY SPOILERIFIC, so don’t read on if you haven’t seen the film….
As it is only a couple of days before Rogue One comes out, I wanted to show a bit of Star Wars love on the blog this week. One thing I remember from the first Rogue One trailer was the iconic Death Star battle siren…