Monthly Archives: March 2012

The Passion of Mel Gibson

Posted on March 28, 2012 by Kenneth George Godwin

I used to like Mel Gibson, particularly in his early, Australian period. I’m still a big fan of the Mad Max trilogy (1979-85), and although they may not seem quite as impressive now as when they were first released, Peter … Continue reading →

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Trash diversions

Posted on March 25, 2012 by Kenneth George Godwin

Procrastinating over several reviews I should be writing, I sat down to watch a cheap exploitation double bill last night: Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes: Part 2 (1985) and Alan Birkinshaw’s Killer’s Moon (1978), both recently issued on Blu-Ray … Continue reading →

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Stanley Kubrick 5B: Science Fiction – A Clockwork Orange

Posted on March 21, 2012 by Kenneth George Godwin

Anthony Burgess wrote his short novel A Clockwork Orange in 1962 as a way of coming to terms with the rape of his first wife. It may seem odd then that the book takes the first person point of view … Continue reading →

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Recent Viewing

Posted on March 14, 2012 by Kenneth George Godwin

I went to see the new Studio Ghibli release a couple of weeks ago. The Secret World of Arrietty (2010) is based on the Borrowers books by Mary Norton, mostly written in the ’50s. These stories of little people who … Continue reading →

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Film(ed) poetry: The Song of Lunch (2010)

Posted on March 10, 2012 by Kenneth George Godwin

Some things just sound like a bad idea. In 2010, Greg Wise, an executive producer at the BBC, decided to commission an adaptation of a long narrative poem by Christopher Reid to mark National Poetry Day in Britain. That poem, … Continue reading →

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Stanley Kubrick 5A: Science Fiction – 2001: A Space Odyssey

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Kenneth George Godwin

I first saw Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey in St. John’s, Newfoundland, when I was 13. Like a lot of people back then, I responded to it as an “experience” rather than a narrative. I don’t think I even … Continue reading →

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