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Willard **** (1971, Bruce Davison, Ernest Borgnine, Sondra Locke, Elsa Lanchester) – Classic Movie Review 4090

Director Daniel Mann’s 1971 horror thriller Willard is particularly effective little chiller about a psychotic teenager, starring Bruce Davison as Willard Stiles, who trains a pair of rats called Ben and Socrates for revenge on […]

Jul, 27 · in Reviews

Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 *** (2000, Jeffrey Donovan, Eric Leerhsen, Kim Director, Tristine Skyler, Stephen Barker Turner, Kurt Loder, Chuck Scarborough) – Classic Movie Review 4089

Oh shock! Oh horror! The witch is back in the inevitable sequel to 1999’s smash hit chiller The Blair Witch Project in co-writer/ director Joe Berlinger’s 2000 horror movie. And so, like lambs to the […]

Jul, 27 · in Uncategorized

Auntie Mame ** (1958, Rosalind Russell, Forrest Tucker, Coral Browne, Fred Clark, Roger Smith, Patric Knowles, Peggy Cass, Lee Patrick) – Classic Movie Review 4088

Producer-director Morton DaCosta’s 1958 Warner Bros comedy drama Auntie Mame is the musical Mame without the music, in which an unconventional, free-thinking socialite aunt adopts an orphan in the inter-war years when her brother dies. Based on […]

Jul, 27

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street *** (1936, Tod Slaughter, Stella Rho, John Singer, Eve Lister, Bruce Seton) – Classic Movie Review 4087

Director George King’s 1936 British horror thriller happily records for posterity Tod Slaughter’s famous barnstorming performance as the 1760s London barber Sweeney Todd in this film version of George Dibdin-Pitt’s play. Before the Stephen Sondheim musical, Slaughter’s turn […]

Jul, 26

K-Shop **** (2016, Ziad Abaza, Ewen MacIntosh, Reece Noi, Lucinda Rhodes Thakrar) – Movie Review

Writer/director Dan Pringle’s 2016 gritty, disturbing urban horror thriller is very keenly up to date but is inspired by the venerable old story of Sweeney Todd. It stars Ziad Abaza as Salah, a British kebab shop owner’s son, who turns vigilante […]

Jul, 26

Chevalier * (2015, Vangelis Mourikis, Nikos Orphanos, Yorgos Pirpassopoulos) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Athina Rachel Tsangari (scripting with Efthymis Filippou) gets her revenge on mankind with her vicious portrait of male rivalry, vanity and insecurity in this ambitious 2015 Greek deadpan comedy. On a fishing trip on […]

Jul, 26

Finding Dory **** (2016, voices of Ellen DeGeneres, Albert Brooks, Ed O’Neill) – Movie Review

Pixar’s long-awaited sequel to its 2003 Finding Nemo plunges swimingly back into Nemo’s beautifully realised aquatic world with a delightful mix of the original favourite underwater characters and some delightful new characters, including octopus Hank (Ed O’Neill), […]

Jul, 26

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