John Boorman – We Have Issues

The Tailor Of Panama (2001) – Review

The responsibility of playing James Bond comes with far more dangers and pitfalls than just having to talk your way out of having your penis

For such a seemingly “normal” director as John Boorman, he didn’t half go all in when it came to cramming cinema full of batshit, crazy.

When it comes to celebrated filmmaker John Boorman tackling the Second World War, most people are drawn to Hope & Glory, his autobiographical take on

The American crime movie has always been cool as it usually features really bad people doing really bad things in a way that’s perversely endearing;

Picture the scene… A giant stone head floats above a barren landscape as it bellows the phrase “The gun is good! The penis is evil!”

I’ve never met John Boorman in the flesh, but I’m willing to bet cash money that restraint wasn’t high on his list of priorities whenever

Sequelizing William Friedkin’s The Exorcist was never going to be an easy job as, for all intents and purposes, it’s as perfect a horror film