Adam Campbell
Born in Canada, Adam was moved as a small child to the world's favourite holiday destination, Northern Ireland. After growing up in rainy Belfast, he relocated himself to rainy Yamaguchi, Japan for a while. Currently Adam lives in rainy Vancouver, where his days are spent writing, watching movies and spying on people through his apartment window like a regular L.B Jefferies.
Blogs by this Author
New Red Cliff Footage
- By Andre Dellamorte
- Published 07/3/2008
John Woo’s return to China has been heavily hyped. For years, fans have been begging him to walk away from unrepentant rubbish that he was making in Hollywood. And eventually, he did. After th...
Humor Risk
- By Andre Dellamorte
- Published 07/2/2008
In the midst of Devin’s post today delivering the good news about the recently uncovered footage from the original cut of Metropolis, he mentioned briefly the Marx Brothers picture Humor Risk....
"No Mr Bond, I expect you to seizure"
- By Andre Dellamorte
- Published 06/30/2008
I’m always still a little bit excited when a new James Bond film is coming out. I know many of them are terrible, I’ve seen them all over the years, but I can’t shake the feeling. ...
The Third Yojimbo? - Machibuse
- By Andre Dellamorte
- Published 06/27/2008
The 1970 film Machibuse (Ambush but often known as Ambush at Blood Pass) is notable for three reasons. One, it features Toshiro Mifune in a character that may have been intended to a reapperanc...
Thoughts on the new Hulk
- By Andre Dellamorte
- Published 06/26/2008
Despite what it may seem, I don’t only watch films from the 1940s. This evening I caught The Incredible Hulk, though probably a good bit later than most of you did, and thought I’d post ...
Dark City : Directors Cut coming soon
- By Andre Dellamorte
- Published 06/24/2008
I'd be a liar if I didn't say I had a huge soft spot for Dark City. To me it was one of the best science fiction films of recent years. I remember seeing it when it came out on video and thinking ho...
Kurosawa Ignored - The Most Beautiful
- By Andre Dellamorte
- Published 06/24/2008
As I mentioned last week, I plan, from time to time, to talk here about some of the lesser known films of Akira Kurosawa, especially his war-time and post-war work. Last time, we looked at his ...
Monsieur Verdoux, Chaplin and Welles
- By Andre Dellamorte
- Published 06/22/2008
I'd like to write a little about Monsieur Verdoux, not a review, but the film entered my head again recently after writing about Shadow of a Doubt. It's certainly not the best known Charlie Chaplin ...
The Good, The Bad and The Weird trailer
- By Andre Dellamorte
- Published 06/21/2008
Another trailer today, but from a completely different country and genre. Korean director Kim Ji-woon first caught my attention with The Foul King, the hilarious Korean wrestling comedy he made...
Kitano's New Film
- By Andre Dellamorte
- Published 06/20/2008
Takeshi Kitano is probably best known Japanese director working today, and one of the most famous Japanese filmmakers in the history of cinema. Kitano has a large following, especially in Europe, an...
