Marçal Forés’s very strange and extremely imaginative 2012 Spanish coming-of-age drama film Animals is a fascinating oddity following the angst-ridden journey of a troubled 17-year-old schoolboy called Pol (Oriol Pla). Writer/ director Marçal Forés’s very […]
The 1967 American comedy film The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin is an amusing, very jovial Walt Disney spoof Western starring Roddy McDowall, Suzanne Pleshette and Karl Malden. Director James Neilson’s 1967 American comedy film The […]
The attractively odd, fascinating little 1959 British B-movie drama film Devil’s Bait stars Geoffrey Keen, Jane Hylton and Gordon Jackson. It is something completely different, mixing suspense thriller with dark comedy. Director Peter Graham Scott’s […]
Ah the joys of the French countryside! Director Pierre Creton’s 2023 French drama film A Prince [Un Prince] is a very strange story, very strangely told, most hippy dippy, most arty, very French. The synopsis makes […]
The pleasing 1934 American mystery thriller film Father Brown, Detective is a good little go at G K Chesterton’s 1910 story The Blue Cross. It stars Walter Connolly as the crime-solving cleric and Paul Lukas […]
The 1941 comedy drama movie The Farmer’s Wife proves an acceptable if uninspired film run-through of Eden Phillpotts’ theatre blockbuster about a grumpy widowed farmer called Sam Sweetland (Basil Sydney) who seeks a new wife. […]
Director Herbert L Strock’s 1955 war film Battle Taxi stars Sterling Hayden, Arthur Franz, and Marshall Thompson. It sets out to show how important helicopter rescue team work is in the Korean War. Captain Russ […]