Bela Lugosi stars as tropical island scientist Dr Zabor, who turns the first half of the comedy team Duke Mitchell and Sammy Petrillo into a gorilla, played by Ramona the Chimp, after they have fallen […]
Co-writer/ director Luis Buñuel and screen-writer Jean-Claude Carrière rework the novel by Joseph Kessel and deliver one of Buñuel’s undoubted masterwork movies in this sleek and provocative 1967 drama. Catherine Deneuve is on dazzling form […]
Director Don Siegel’s masterly 1954 prison drama is low on budget but high on social concern and urgency as a plea for reform of the American prison system and conditions in US jails. It is […]
Writer-director Ingmar Bergman’s insightful 1969 Swedish film is a provocative, complex, and highly personal piece of work that focuses on a famous acting troupe charged with obscenity after one of their performances. It was made for […]
Joan Crawford takes over Gertrude Lawrence’s stage role of Susan, the gay Mrs Trexel (of the UK title), for director George Cukor’s 1940 comedy-drama movie based on Rachel Crothers’s celebrated 1937 stage play Susan and […]
The Book of Henry is an interesting but dodgy mix of thriller and tear-jerking drama. There’s enough material for three separate movies here. And that is always good. Any one of them might have been […]
So here we go on the fifth part of the long-running kids’ action adventure saga, based on the Hasbro toys. That idea might excite some kids but it fills a lot of grown-ups with dread. Actually, it is […]
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