The Moon & the Sledgehammer (1971)

Review: The Moon & the Sledgehammer (1971)

Director: Philip Trevelyan

Plot: This is a witty and well shot documentary about the Page family, Father, two sons and two daughters are shown living deep in the woods of Sussex. The film is dated 1971 (and a Tax Disk shown shows 1970) yet the family are blissfully unaware of man having already reached the moon, postulate on how this might be done. This aside they demonstrate some fine lateral thinking and through their naive delivery come the fears and concerns still relevant today, pollution, intensive farming, mechanisation

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Truffles, a blood-fuelled car, zombies and a family in retreat from the modern world: recent viewing

Truffles, a blood-fuelled car, zombies and a family in retreat from the modern world: recent viewing

Spanish zombies, rural American zombies, a Korean serial killer, monsters and illicit mindbending drugs, a blood-fuelled car, small-town fascism, an eccentric family in retreat from the modern world, and a man with a truffle-hunting pig – […]

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