As the film begins we see Professor Henry Harrington (Maurice Denham) approaching Dr Julian Karswell (Niall MacGuinnis) of Lufford Hall, telling him that he will call off an investigation […]
When Derek Malcolm chose his accompanying list in The Guardian, his two most recent films were Zhang Yimou’s “Raise The Red Lantern” (which would easily made my list, but I […]
It seems a bit ironic that I have been knocking Cameron before but then come back (see ‘Saving Private Ryan’) to one of his films. Now I know this is […]
I can’t believe it has taken this long to get to a Western, but it has. There are many to have a go at and this won’t be the last, […]
I thought long and hard about Spielberg, but disregarded perhaps his best film, Schindler’s List, as I just can’t bring myself to watch it that much. I finally settled on […]
When Roy Ward Baker died last year, all the obituaries concentrated on “A Night To Remember” (quite rightly too), his definitive version of the Titanic disaster, vastly superior to James […]
“I have been memorising this room, in the future, in my memory; I shall live a great deal in this room” Christina (Greta Garbo) after falling in love with the […]
“Murderers came with smiles, killing people was no big deal, we were good fellas” Martin Scorsese shaved of his beard during the making of this film, he hasn’t been the […]
In July 2012, one of the last of the last, Ernest Borgnine died aged 95, he was one of the great character actors of the 50s who came to prominence […]
I don’t like the French New Wave. There, I’ve said it. When I first started to watch films in a foreign language there was a season of French films on […]
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