About

Name: Ian Woolstencroft
Dateline: Leicester, England
Weblog: www.minewastaller.com [RSS]
Articles: 77
First Published: Sunday, August 20, 2006
Last Published: Monday, October 1, 2007
Writer Bio
Ian Woolstencroft was brought up on a diet of John Wayne movies and Marvel Comics and still has a passion for both. Now as a blogcritic he finally understands what Spider-Man’s Uncle Ben meant when he said ‘With great power comes great responsibility.’
All published articles — RSS Feed
77-51 | 50-1
Currently listing articles 77-51:
  1. Diary of a TV Addict: September Part 1, The New Shows

    — Is the new TV season just a case of the Emperor's new clothes?

    OPINION in Video on October 01, 2007

  2. FrightFest 2007: A Look Back at the UK's Top Horror Film Festival - Part 3

    — Films from Britain, Mexico, America, Russia, and Spain brought the festival to a close.

    REVIEW in Video on September 26, 2007

  3. FrightFest 2007: A Look Back at the UK's Top Horror Film Festival - Part 2

    — An encounter with Uwe Boll, plus WAZ, one of the festival's best films.

    REVIEW in Video on September 17, 2007

  4. FrightFest 2007: A Look Back at the UK's Top Horror Film Festival - Part 1

    — Killer sheep! Killer crocodiles! And more crazed killers per foot of celluloid than you'll find anywhere else! It must be FrightFest!

    REVIEW in Video on September 03, 2007

  5. Music Review: Dwight Yoakam - Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc. 2 Disc Expanded Edition

    — In the eighties country music got a much needed kick in the pants, Dwight Yoakam was one of the guys doing the kicking.

    REVIEW in Music on August 01, 2007

  6. Cinema Macabre Issue 5: Zombies!

    — The dead walk as Cinema Macabre pays tribute to some classic zombie movies.

    REVIEW in Video on July 30, 2007

  7. Music DVD Review: Dwight Yoakam - Live From Austin Tx

    — A classic gig from 1988 finds the country music favorite in fine form.

    REVIEW in Music on July 12, 2007

  8. Music DVD Review: Steve Earle - Live From Austin Tx

    — An hour of classic country-rock.

    REVIEW in Music on July 12, 2007

  9. DVD Review: The John Wayne Film Collection Box Set

    — Have Warners unearthed any lost Wayne classics or are they scraping the bottom of the barrel with this set?

    REVIEW in Video on July 01, 2007

  10. Cinema Macabre Issue 4: Vampires!

    — This month we take a look at that perennial horror favourite, the vampire.

    REVIEW in Video on June 30, 2007

  11. John Wayne Centenary: The '70s - Big Jake, The Cowboys and The Shootist

    — The journey through Wayne's career reaches its conclusion with three classic '70s westerns.

    REVIEW in Video on June 25, 2007

  12. John Wayne Centenary: The '60s - The Alamo, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, McLintock!, The Sons of Katie Elder, El Dorado, The War Wagon, and True Grit

    — The decade that finally saw Duke win an Oscar.

    REVIEW in Video on June 18, 2007

  13. John Wayne Centenary: The '50s - Rio Grande, The Quiet Man, Hondo, The Searchers and Rio Bravo

    — John Wayne made some of the best films of his career in the '50s, including two of the greatest westerns ever made.

    REVIEW in Video on June 07, 2007

  14. John Wayne Centenary: The '40s - Fort Apache, Red River, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and Sands of Iwo Jima

    — The '40s were filled with formulaic action films but at the end of the decade Wayne made four classics.

    REVIEW in Video on June 02, 2007

  15. TV Review: May Round-Up - Criminal Minds Reaches The End of its Second Season

    — Serial killer Frank's back in a good but slightly disappointing season finale.

    REVIEW in Video on May 28, 2007

  16. John Wayne Centenary: The '30s - The Big Trail and Stagecoach

    — John Wayne's first shot at the big time missed the mark but with John Ford's help he scored a hit with Stagecoach.

    REVIEW in Video on May 28, 2007

  17. John Wayne, My Dad, and Me or How I Learned to Love The Western

    — May 26 marks the 100th anniversary John Wayne’s birth, arguably the biggest star Hollywood has ever produced.

    OPINION in Video on May 26, 2007

  18. Cinema Macabre Issue 3: Hair-raising Scares With The Wolf Man, Dog Soldiers and Much More

    — This month Cinema Macabre brings you a selection of films that are really something to howl about.

    REVIEW in Video on May 26, 2007

  19. Movie Review: Bunny Lake is Missing - Laurence Olivier Centenary

    — While its subject matter of a missing child is more topical than ever, the film itself has not dated well.

    REVIEW in Video on May 25, 2007

  20. Movie Review: Sleuth - Laurence Olivier Centenary

    — Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine give an acting masterclass.

    REVIEW in Video on May 24, 2007

  21. Movie Review: The Boys from Brazil - Laurence Olivier Centenary

    — Laurence Olivier as a Jewish Nazi hunter and Gregory Peck as Dr. Josef Mengele makes this a must-see.

    REVIEW in Video on May 21, 2007

  22. TV Review: May Round-Up - CSI Season 7 Reaches a Disappointing Conclusion

    — The season reaches its (anti)climax.

    REVIEW in Video on May 20, 2007

  23. Laurence Olivier Centenary: The Greatest Actor of the 20th Century?

    — He could play anything, from Shakespeare's Hamlet to Nazi war criminal Christian Szell in Marathon Man.

    OPINION in Video on May 20, 2007

  24. Movie Review: Rooster Cogburn - Katharine Hepburn Centenary

    — Hepburn and Wayne together for the first and only time! It's just a shame the film wasn't worthy of them.

    REVIEW in Video on May 16, 2007

  25. Movie Review: The African Queen - Katharine Hepburn Centenary Celebration

    — Katharine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart as the ultimate mismatched couple.

    REVIEW in Video on May 15, 2007

  26. Katharine Hepburn Centenary: The First Lady of Cinema

    — A true Hollywood great remembered.

    OPINION in Video on May 12, 2007

  27. TV Review: April Round-Up - Including 24, Lost, and Heroes

    — This month features a higher than normal body count.

    REVIEW in Video on May 10, 2007

Fresh
Articles
Fresh
Comments