To minimize my guilt at going to the pictures - to call this wanton pursuit of an effete pleasure by another name - I needed movie companions as drunkards need drinking partners. If I entered a cinema alone, God might plunge his arm through the roof of the auditorium booming in a stereophonic voice, 'And you, Crisp, what are you doing here?' I would never have dared reply, 'I'm just enjoying myself, Lord.' I remembered too well what happened to Mr and Mrs Adam. A commissionaire with a flaming sword came and asked them to leave.

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It would be impossible to get through the kind of life that I have known without accumulating a vast unused stockpile of rage. Retaliation, though, was a luxur…

I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.

Speaking of things that'll make your head explode, 'Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story' finally made it to the drive-in

Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now? Since passion may not fire thee Shall Nature cease to bow? Thy mind is ever moving In regions dark t…

Am I really, oh great! They just want to keep that competition going between the two films don't they. But I don't think you can really compare the two. It wil…