Showing posts with label Ken Hughes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ken Hughes. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 9, 2025

00 Week: The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning


CASINO ROYALE

1967
Directed by John Huston, Ken Hughes, Val Guest, Joe McGrath, and Robert Parrish
Written by Wolf Mankowitz, John Law, Michael Sayers, Ben Hecht, Joseph Heller, Terry Southern, Billy Wilder, and Woody Allen ("based on" the novel by Ian Fleming)

Spoilers: high, I guess, but also largely meaningless

Friday, October 23, 2020

Census Bloodbath: Cultural appropriation


Halloween might be cancelled, but it's still October, and that means it's time again for the peanut butter and chocolate we call The Switcheroo, with Brennan Klein of Popcorn Culture and Alternate Ending doing my weird, gross, nostalgic 1950s sci-fi thing for a spell, whilst I do some nice, wholesome slashers from the brightest days of the 1980s.

NIGHT SCHOOL

1981
Directed by Ken Hughes
Written by Ruth Agerton

Spoiler alert: high, I guess, I said reluctantly