Tag Archives: rome
Five Things I Love About HBO’s ‘The Young Pope’
I took a week off work after getting married, and during that week I had the opportunity to binge watch a whole bunch of different television shows and films. I also took the time to think and write about things that had been on my mind for quite some time. But the one piece of […]
Blindspot 2016: Roma (1972)
Frederico Fellini’s Roma (1972) is the kind of film that makes you want to travel to the magnificent city of Rome immediately and just sit and people-watch. Both a criticism and a celebration of Rome and its people, Roma‘s synopsis is as follows: A fluid, unconnected and sometimes chaotic procession of scenes detailing the various […]
Search & Rescue #11
It’s been a while between drinks in my Search & Rescue series, so here I present to you a number of search terms I’ve been collecting from my statistics over the past couple of months, which seem to beg answers to some very interesting questions. For those who are new to Film Grimoire, I make […]
Ten Things I Love About HBO’s ‘Rome’
I’ve been a bit slow on the film reviewing front because I’ve been really enjoying getting stuck into a new television show (at least, it’s new to me). I’m currently watching season one of HBO’s Rome and am absolutely loving it for a number of reasons. Ten main ones, to be exact. If you’re unaware […]
Caligula (1979): “Let them hate me, so long as they fear me.”
A convenient summary of this entire review: I sat through almost three hours of this film so you don’t have to. Caligula (1979, dir. Tinto Brass) is a sprawling historical epic of the life of the Roman Emperor Caligula (Malcolm McDowell). Beginning from his carefree youth, before he became the infamous Emperor, this film tells […]
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