Marilyn Monroe gives her archetypal dumb-blonde act a total workout as The Girl, the unnamed ditzy new neighbour upstairs from tormented hero Richard Sherman (played by Tom Ewell), in Billy Wilder’s delicious 1955 choice comedy […]
A sadly frail Vincent Price puts in his final film appearance as an old inventor, living in a hilltop castle, who creates a creature for a son. As usual in the movies, the experiment doesn’t […]
‘This is love! Complete…reckless…violent,’ screams the poster as Alfred Hitchcock embarks in 1945 on another delicious tale of obsession and trauma. Spellbound scored six Oscar nominations and won one, for Best Original Score. ‘This is […]
Finally, thanks to the late-Nineties new CGI effects, the cinema found a way of making The Mummy both thrilling and exciting as well as fast and scary, and not just an old geezer wrapped in […]
Boris Karloff is on fine menacing form, swearing destruction as Imhotep (‘Kheb, khebet…’), in The Mummy (1933). Ironically in real life Imhotep’s name meant ‘He who comes in peace is with peace’. ‘Kheb, khebet…’ – […]
‘Ed, this isn’t the real world. You’ve surrounded yourself with a bunch of weirdoes!’ – Ed Wood’s girlfriend Dolores Fuller. In this sensationally good 1994 film, Johnny Depp is at his most winning as the […]
Billy Wilder’s 1959 film Some Like It Hot offers a comic take on the St Valentine’s Day Massacre, building a mountain of gags round a hilarious story of two musicians in drag fleeing gangsters by […]
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