Tim Pelan

‘The Past, Present and Future of Humanity’: John Boorman’s ‘Excalibur’

  By Tim Pelan   John Boorman's 1981 fantastical retelling of Thomas Mallory’s Le Morte d’Arthur is, to quote Nicol…

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The Matrix Revelation: How the Wachowskis Opened Our Eyes to a New Kind of Action Cinema

    By Tim Pelan   Few films permeate the gestalt consciousness like Star Wars (“I am your father”, “Use…

5 years ago

Slaughterhouse Twelve: Robert Aldrich’s ‘The Dirty Dozen’

  By Tim Pelan In the mid-1960s, director Robert Aldrich was coming up for air after the thick stew melodramas…

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An Agency of Chaos: Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Dark Knight’

Photographed by Stephen Vaughan © Warner Bros., Legendary Entertainment, Syncopy, DC Comics   By Tim Pelan In October 2005, shortly…

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Take It to the Limit One More Time:
Michael Mann’s ‘Miami Vice’

    By Tim Pelan   Michael Mann’s 2006 big screen revamp of 1980s groundbreaking TV show Miami Vice (Brandon…

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God’s Lonely Funny Man: Martin Scorsese’s ‘The King of Comedy’ and America’s Pathological Obsession with Fame

  By Tim Pelan   In this age of television wannabes and quick fix celebs, it is fitting to look…

5 years ago

Empire’s End: John Huston’s ‘The Man
Who Would Be King’

  By Tim Pelan   On the occasion of John Huston's The Man Who Would Be King screening at the…

5 years ago