Blow Dry (2001)

I suppose the best way to describe this is as a quirky bite-sized English comedy peppered throughout a nicely touching and incredibly tidy drama. Don’t expect War & Peace and you should be mostly fine, even if you don’t have an interest in hair and the extravagant dressing thereof. The only genuine problem afoot is one of accents. I’m never sure if I should be upset with the one Hartnett affects or Rachael’s completely inexplicable lack of one. Probably both. If you like any of the players, it’s worth a shot, as there’s even some nice symbolism on display.

3 Completely Misleading Posters out of 5

Nutted by NEG.

Gothic (1986)

The meeting of Lord Byron, Percy Shelley and his lover Mary Godwin has passed into legend as the night the seeds of Frankenstein (1818) were born.
Ken Russell creates his own hysterical imbued fiction around those events, in his unique debauched style. With a carnival ride through the themes of abortion, adultery, blasphemy, incest, self-mutilation and vampirism it’s business as usual for the British pervert. It starts great and ends great, but it’s flabby in the middle. Special kudos to Natasha Richardson as Mary.

3 poets, like schizos, are never alone out of 5