
James Hancock
@colebrax • 27,528 subscribers
Known to rant incoherently while waving my hands. Creator of @WrongReel & @gknout.
Shorts
Videos

“If I had a thousand sons, the first humane principle I would teach them should be to forswear thin potations and to addict themselves to sack.” Falstaff makes the case for strong drink in this incredible scene from 'Chimes at Midnight' (1965), discussed in my new video with Dr Pinball Lez :
James Hancock222,005 次观看 • 6 个月前
1:58
Sensitive content
This media may contain sensitive content.

"What if he tries something?" "I'll handle it." "Rolling Stones, 11 years old." "I know an 11-year-old girl who is already on the pill." "Don't ever say that word again." 50 years ago today, 'The Bad News Bears' was unleashed upon the world. Check out my 50th anniversary review:
James Hancock63,296 次观看 • 6 个月前

Peter Weir's 2003 film 'Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World' gave me the kick in the ass I needed to start reading the legendary series by Patrick O'Brian. This past year I finally read the second novel 'Post Captain' (1972) which easily made my list for my top 10 favorite books I discovered in 2025:
James Hancock88,205 次观看 • 10 个月前

It would require a great philosopher and historian to explain the causes of the famous Seven Years' War, in which Europe was engaged, and in which Barry's regiment was now on its way to take part. Let it suffice to say that England and Prussia were allies... and at war against the French, the Swedes, the Russians, and the Austrians. Check out my 50th anniversary review for 'Barry Lyndon' (1975, dir by Stanley Kubrick):
James Hancock86,072 次观看 • 10 个月前

While Josef Von Sternberg’s adaptation of ‘An American Tragedy’ famously bombed in 1931 and ended up getting sued by its author Theodore Dreiser, at least it got a mention by Groucho Marx in ‘Horse Feathers’ (1932). Check out my video where I celebrate the 75th anniversary of the more successful adaptation, ‘A Place in the Sun’ (1951):
James Hancock13,182 次观看 • 2 个月前

Detriments you call us? Detriments? Well I want to remind you it was "detriments" like us that built this bloody Empire *and* the Izzat of the bloody Raj, 'ats on! Check out my video with Tony Stella where we celebrate the 50th anniversary of John Huston's adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's 'The Man Who Would Be King':
James Hancock12,429 次观看 • 10 个月前
