Dr. Frank Mannering: "Mr Talbot, if you want us to help you, you must do as we say. Now, please lie down." Lawrence Talbot: "You think I'm insane. You think I don't know what I'm talking about. Well y...

Alt: Buster Keaton's Iconic House Fall Stunt from the film STEAMBOAT BILL JR. It is Keaton standing in front of a two story home during a hurricane scene. The storm knocks the front wall of the house down on top of him. He perfectly placed himself so that the open window of the second floor falls around him, and not on top of him. A very dangerous stunt. 

Like everyone else, I watched last year’s teaser trailer for Mad Max: Fury Road with a mixture of eagerness and trepidation. Eagerness, because hot damn, it looked thrilling. Trepidation, bec…

Looks Unfamiliar with Garreth Hirons talking to Tim Worthington about Malcolm McLaren’s The Ghosts Of Oxford Street and other assorted Channel 4 Christmas Day oddities.

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Harry: "Look down there. Tell me. Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever? If I offered you £20,000 for every dot that stopped, would you really, old man, tell me to...

Carol Reed's celebrated British noir THE THIRD MAN is widely regarded as 'The greatest British film of all time'. Brilliantly scripted by Graham Greene and set to Anton Karas' evocative zither score, ...

How time spent with Stanislaw Lem’s classic science fiction novel made me realize I’d seen these themes before — but they came later.

Clarence: "They're not there either." George Bailey: "What?" Clarence: "Zuzu's petals... You've been given a great gift, George: A chance to see what the world would be like without you..." Notes afte...

The men arrived on small boats. No they didn’t. They’re Middle Eastern. Oh, they’re British. They’re dangerous. No, they’ve been bailed! What 10-year-old would take this seriously?

The Rani is back – and so are we…

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Two later-period Otto Preminger efforts come to disc: the Expressionistic thriller “Bunny Lake Is Missing” (1965) and the psychedelic comedy “Skidoo” (1968).

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The convicted criminal, later a successful crime writer and filmmaker, was the subject of the retrospective at the 2026 San Sebastián Film Festival.

Alt: Wallace And Gromit Train

A weekly blog that shows my current film reviews and looks at films from the past. I also look at upcoming releases.

Hubert Smith: "Everything here is for the cats, which is why this place is going to the dogs..." Not the Edward G. Ulmar horror, but the cornball 1941 version with Bela Lugosi lurking about in the sha...

Often viewed as his most “normal” film, David Lynch’s sophomore feature is as Lynchian as what came before and after it.

Carol Reed's celebrated British noir THE THIRD MAN is widely regarded as 'The greatest British film of all time'. Brilliantly scripted by Graham Greene and set to Anton Karas' evocative zither score, ...