This Is England is, arguably, writer-director Shane Meadows’s chillingly realistic 2006 masterpiece. It features an astounding performance by Thomas Turgoose (aged 14) as Shaun, a 12-year-old English boy who becomes friends with bitter, racist, psychotic Combo (Stephen Graham) and a […]
A Ray Harryhausen special-effects monster of notable beastliness is the main reason to watch director Nathan Juran’s creaky old 1957 monster movie. William Hopper stars as spaceman Colonel Robert Calder, whose debut Venus-probe spacecraft that […]
Director Cy Endfield’s 1961 British adventure movie is produced by Charles H Schneer. Michael Craig and Michael Callan star as embattled American Civil War soldiers, officers Captain Cyrus Harding (Craig) and Herbert Brown (Callan), who […]
Kerwin Mathews makes a dashing, handsome but rather bland hero as Lemuel Gulliver in co-writer/director Jack Sher’s swift 1960 run-through of Jonathan Swift’s 1726 satirical novel Gulliver’s Travels, with the emphasis on the familiar Brobdingnagian […]
Director Gordon Douglas’s vintage 1954 sci-fi horror thriller Them! is still good fun thanks to the taut pace and admirably serious approach he brings to it. It was nominated for an Oscar for Best Special Effects. […]
Director Nathan Juran’s 1958 Arabian Nights fantasy adventure stars Kerwin Mathews as Sinbad, who, in the story by Ray Harryhausen, is searching for the cure that will return his love Princess Parisa (Kathryn Grant) back […]
Douglas Fairbanks Jnr’s magically acrobatic performance as Sinbad in the kind of role his father Douglas Fairbanks Snr pioneered in silent movies is the chief delight of director Richard Wallace’s lavish Technicolorful 1947 RKO swashbuckling adventure […]
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