Merge

I've been blogging now for 6 months and I decided to make a change. The main blog was simply meant as a record of every film I watch and then I started another to hopefully record different aspects of my thoughts in a very genre specific medium. Suddenly the whim took me to merge them. This I know is going to throw up some very different bedfellows - Laurel and Hardy sat next to Dario Argento isn't you're usual progressions, and indeed if there a person out there who enjoys the similar kind of range as I do, well I'd be happy to hear from them - we are a strange breed! But as much as I am blown away by the cinema of Buster Keaton, I am similarly struck by the work of Jean Rollin. For every great Hitchcock movie, there is a Jess Franco film that demands the same attention. I know that, compared to some of the great blogs out there, my meagre additions to the world of film appreciation don't amount to a hill of beans but as I gain confidence in puting my thoughts down it all starts to become more important to lat my obsessions live side by side, of which there are many:

My Obsessions

• Silent Comedy
• American Comedy up to 1950
• British Comedy up to 1980
• Giallos
• Eurohorror
• Eurotrash (which encapsulted some of the above [possibly below too!], and although I'm not a huge fan of the term, it fits the purpose here)
• Brit-Horror
• French Cinema

NOT an exhaustive list. I basically just love film. Currently my obsession with Giallos, Franco, Rollin and the ilk is prominent but like all multi-obsessives, allegiances shine bright and wane only to return stronger. As I look forward to my France trip this year I fully expect an abundance of French films to be watched, 'cause that's what I'm like. I also have a family who have their own tastes, which, sometimes regretably, has to be taken into consideration. So there will be a mixed bag, and if you do stumble upon this site I hope some of it is to your liking. And if it all is, you just might be my long lost brother or sister.