Writer-director Woody Allen’s 1983 comedy is a smartly conceived but clumsily developed and largely unfunny fictional spoof documentary, or mockumentary, about a human chameleon nobody called Leonard Zelig (Allen). Zelig becomes a celebrity through being able […]
The light comedy of manners A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy finds writer-director Woody Allen in playful, lyrical mood in 1982, toasting one of his inspirations, Ingmar Bergman, and especially his film Smiles of a Summer Night (1955), […]
Swedish writer-director Ingmar Bergman’s enchanting 1955 bitter-sweet story about couples struggling to sort out their complicated romances at a weekend in the country in late-19th century Sweden makes for a delightful and sympathetic movie. There, the ageing […]
Unfortunately more money spent on a bigger budget does not make Jim Wynorski’s 1988 first remake of the 1957 Roger Corman cult classic movie about a vampire alien arriving on Earth more interesting. Yes, it […]
Director Terence H Winkless’s quite bad and totally uncalled for 1995 movie is the second remake of the 1957 Roger Corman movie about a vampire alien arriving on Earth. Admittedly, it is decently special effects […]
Roger Corman’s enjoyable, efficient and imaginative vampire-plus-alien 1957 hybrid movie Not of This Earth features a classic prototype ghoul from outer space. A US small-town is disturbed by the arrival of a new neighbour, Paul […]
Director Terence Young’s 1959 British drama Serious Charge is based on a play by Philip King and really presents a couple of serious charges. Anthony Quayle stars as Howard Phillips, a vicar newly arrived in the […]
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