Director Anthony Asquith’s 1941 British movie stars George Cole, in his film debut at 16 as Ronald, a young cockney who is evacuated to a Scottish village, always a hotbed of Nazis in the movies […]
It’s hard to imagine a movie whose concept is Lassie meets Coming Home, but here it is. It’s better to think of it as a boy and his dog movie. You’d have to have a […]
Jason Bateman and Rebecca Hall stars as youngish married couple Simon and Robyn, whose life goes spiralling into meltdown after a chance encounter with Simon’s old high school acquaintance Gordo (Joel Edgerton). Initially, Simon doesn’t even recognise Gordo at […]
Warren Brown captures exactly the right note as retired merchant seaman Captain Matthew Webb, who on 25 August 1875 survives fierce winds, treacherous currents and multiple jellyfish stings to swim from Dover to the shores […]
The 2015 reboot Marvel Comics superhero film Fantastic Four [FANT4STIC] was a critical and box-office failure and won Golden Raspberry Awards for Worst Director and Picture. It is ten years since the first Fantastic Four (2005) and eight since Fantastic 4: Rise of […]
Henry Livings’s award-winning absurdist play Eh? about giant magic mushrooms gets a livelier title and the then Sixties pop princess Cilla Black, plus a classy star in David Warner, posh theatre director in Peter Hall and […]
Michael Carreras’s 1964 Hammer horror The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb is the first sequel to their 1959 film The Mummy, and stars Terence Morgan as the villain, Ronald Howard as the hero, and Fred […]
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