Author: James Ruzicka

Episode 17: Elvis the Baz Singer

We’re All Shook Up this episode by the frenetic gyrations of Baz Luhrmann’s new biopic Elvis, another example of style trumping substance. But it’s hardly the first Hollywood film about white people making money out of black music – that might be The Jazz Singer, famously the first talkie (except it isn’t…) from 1927. Has […]

Gojira (1954)

I was sent to review Gojira when it was rereleased in the UK in 2005, by film site FilmExposed.com. I’m looking forward to seeing it again for the pod next week, but in the meantime I thought I’d dig out my old review, below: …. ‘What you see is not a movie. It is utterly […]

The Two Reel Cinema Blog

So the Two Reel Cinema Club is a podcast. Every episode we watch two movies, a brand new one and an old one that visits some of the same territory, and then we try to connect the dots. There may also be some random chatter in between the dots. In fact sometimes we wander far […]