Ribbon of Memes: Latest posts

Roger and Nick eliminate the transportation industry, just as soon as we can get this bug worked out, with 1958's The Fly and the 1986 remake by David Cronenberg. Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Rowan's not dead! The Wicker Man (1973) and The Wicker Man (2006). Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Roger and Nick jump back to the early days of film, and some David Thomson recommendations, with 1903's The Great Train Robbery and 1917's Thomas Graals bästa film (Thomas Graal's Best Film, rereleased as Wanted - A Film Actress.) Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

I got a pretty fair idea that something doggone important is goin' on back there. Nick and Roger take three looks at nuclear war averted, or not, with 1964's Dr Strangelove and Fail Safe, then 1990's TV movie By Dawn's Early Light. Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

More war, if peripherally, as we go back to old Ribbon of Memes favourites Huston and Bogart for 1951's The African Queen. Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

The great Jacques Tourneur had a vision… that he didn't entirely get to use, in this adaptation of M R James' "Casting the Runes." Nick and Roger are excessively brash and American in 1957's Night of the Demon. The film is freely available from archive.org. Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

We're back in the Second World War, in that genre of films that gradually shifted from near-documentary to fantasy. This time we're more at the fantasy end, with two films of Alistair MacLean's books, 1961's The Guns of Navarone and 1968's Where Eagles Dare. Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

An open and shut case, the victim raped the man's wife and then the man shot him. But is it legally murder? Nick and Roger take a look at 1959's Anatomy of a Murder. Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

We've previously talked about Knives Out and Glass Onion, and now Roger and Nick return for the third Benoit Blanc film, 2025's Wake Up Dead Man. Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

The dame is lovely, and very dead. But that's just another day in the big city as Nick and Roger take a look at 1944's Laura. Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download