...poses a high terror threat to the TV screen for anyone short of fuse and heavy of boot...
Friday, 31 December 2010
Saturday, 25 December 2010
The ERH Xmas Film: Trapped in Paradise (1994)
... a vivid purgatorial holding-pattern of dark Capra-esque whimsy scripted by an MC Escher riding the acid-fried black helix of some ultimate despair...
Friday, 24 December 2010
The ERH Advent Rollover: Day Twenty Fucking Four
It's the final day of our thoroughly miscalculated and decidedly unfestive advent rundown and we join party animals Gary Busey and Tommy Lee Jones on a voyage of the damned...
Thursday, 23 December 2010
Wednesday, 22 December 2010
The ERH Advent Fiasco: Day Twenty Two
Day twenty two of our festive filmic frolic was born in 1518 in the village of Glenfinnan on the shores of Loch Shiel... and it is immortal.
Tuesday, 21 December 2010
The ERH Advent Meltdown: Day Twenty One
Day twenty one of our advent adventure might well be a clown, but we can't all be lion tamers, now, can we..?
Monday, 20 December 2010
Sunday, 19 December 2010
The ERH Advent Roundelay: Day Nineteen
You'll have to pry your tiny, feeble allotment of grayish, waxy, misshapen advent chocolate from Day Nineteen's cold, dead hands...
Saturday, 18 December 2010
The ERH Advent Rundown: Day Eighteen
Day Eighteen and we're painting the Big Apple red with one of the great second-bananas of Seventies cinema...
Thursday, 16 December 2010
The ERH Seasonal Cinematic Sequence: Day Sixteen
We join Sean Connery's globetrotting TV journalist for some satire, spills and gold-standard sexism in Day Sixteen of our Crimbo carnivale...
Wednesday, 15 December 2010
Tuesday, 14 December 2010
The ERH Advent Countup: Day Fourteen
Disenchanted by the crass commercialism of Christmas? Let Day Fourteen of the ERH advent cavalcade soothe your brow...
Monday, 13 December 2010
The ERH Advent Calendar: Day Thirteen
Day Thirteen ans we skip the back nine for(e) a bogey and an open face dogleg sand-wedge at the nineteenth hole...
Sunday, 12 December 2010
Saturday, 11 December 2010
The ERH Advent Calendar: Day Eleven
Freewheeling Cold War satire/elephantine xenophobic hogwash is the order of the day in Day Eleven of our Yuletide yomp...
Friday, 10 December 2010
The ERH Advent Calendar: Day Ten
ERH's love is like bad medicine, but at this stage of the party season, bad medicine might be just what you need...
Thursday, 9 December 2010
Wednesday, 8 December 2010
Tuesday, 7 December 2010
The ERH Advent Calendar: Day S-S-Seven
Day Seven of our wrong-headed Yuletide meltdown and it's up, up and away with nobody's favourite early-Nineties military spoof...
Monday, 6 December 2010
The ERH Advent Calendar: Day Six
This totally misleading space-door harbours a lunatic period wrestling comedy starring two of Seventies TV's biggest (and smallest!) stars...
Sunday, 5 December 2010
The ERH Advent Calendar: Day... what, Five??
Heretical iconography, fantastical flummery and an awful lot of blow-dried hair mark Day Five of our much-regretted Crimbo count-up...
Saturday, 4 December 2010
Friday, 3 December 2010
Thursday, 2 December 2010
Wednesday, 1 December 2010
Sunday, 21 November 2010
Genre Specific: 'Tin Messiah!'
With Christmas just around the corner, the gritty kernel within the pearl of cinematic certainty that is Genre Specific kneels before those Mechanical Messiahs that have redeemed the silver screen.
Sunday, 14 November 2010
Forgotten Flix
Our insular, gun-totin', Marshall Plannin' American cousins over at Forgotten Flix have corralled a wild bunch of Eighties mind-slips, Nineties crack-slippers, Noughties forget-me-nots and general ERH gold into a kaleidoscopic rodeo of the damned in which there are no winners, only losers; no heroes... only victims...
Click the pic check them out.
Thursday, 11 November 2010
Photo Archive: John Huston... and Pele?
Love and confusion ooze from this image in equal measure as the master of American cinema and football's greatest practitioner team up to... gulp!... save an orphanage from being demolished by those pencil-necked pen-pushers up at City Hall in 1983's most heartwarming/vomitous caper, Young Giants...
Saturday, 6 November 2010
Bonfire Night Video: Wilder Napalm (1993)
...Dennis Quaid and oven-baked nowhere man Arliss Howard play a pair pyrokenetic brothers torn apart by a kaleidoscopic explosion of celebrity...
Wednesday, 3 November 2010
Monday, 18 October 2010
Friday, 15 October 2010
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