The Penciltonian

Some fisherfolk, cavorting Fisherman’s Friends (2019) ‘Fisherman’s Friends’ is a lively but very by-the-book story of an unlikely rise...

Pre-History! 1900: The Enchanted Drawing 1901: Stop Thief! 1902: La Voyage dans la Lune 1903: La Vie et La Passion de Jesus Christ , Th...

In 2016, Tim Stiefler edited all eight Harry Potter films into one single 78-minute movie. It’s a great work of editing, telling one lean...

Glanni is rather more frightening than Robbie Today’s film is actually a filmed-for-DVD play, ‘Glanni Glæpur í Latabæ’ (also known as ‘R...

One of my lodgers is a big fan of One Direction.  At first, she got into them ironically - this is the age of memes, so this is one of t...

Today I’d like to comment on an obscure student-film by someone who became famous for something else - ‘Man Alone’ is an ambitious piece ...

Today's film is a dinosaur Western which really frightened me as a child.   The setting, according to a slide at the start, is 'S...

Have I the right to touch these cows together? This is really a bit of self-promotion, dear readers.  I've stepped away from films f...

Before I get to ‘Die Andere Heimat’, let me tell you a little about the Heimat trilogy.  ‘ Heimat ’ (1984), is either a film, or a seri...

Yesterday, my bandmate Pez urged me to look out ‘The Adventures of Food Boy’ on Netflix.  I can’t remember quite why the recommendation w...