Producer-director Alexander Korda’s 1933 triumph The Private Life of Henry VIII was the first British movie to enjoy worldwide success. It was an even sweeter triumph because at the time period films were considered to […]
The 1956 British colour comedy film The Baby and the Battleship is a cheery and fast-moving Fifties caper about a boatload of jovial Royal Navy sailors who have shore leave in Naples before being left […]
Writer-director Larry Fessenden’s 2001 horror movie is in the interesting, half-successful category, with a creepy atmosphere and some aspects of it working suspensefully and grippingly along the way to fizzling out in a weak conclusion. A […]
Marlon Brando stars as the quintessential wild boy in director Laslo Benedek’s legendary, once infamous 1953 biker teenage rebellion melodrama, which was banned in Britain until 1967. As a biker exploitation movie, it influenced the genre in the […]
‘Savage! Primitive! Untamed!’ Director James L Wolcott’s infamous low-budget 1958 American adventure film The Wild Women of Wongo is a rare so-bad-it’s-good treat. With its stereotypical portrayals of fictional tropical islanders, it is absolutely appallingly […]
Swedish director Victor Sjöström’s [Seastrom] most famous and finest work, based on the novel by Dorothy Scarborough, is now recognised and hailed as one of the all-time great silent movies. However time is on its side: […]
Director Barry Sonnenfeld’s 1999 comedy Western big-screen version of the 1965-69 TV series is carelessly handled and drossily scripted. It must have been a near thing, very touch and go, but Will Smith’s charisma and […]
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