Director Brian Yuzna’s 1990 Re-Animator sequel Bride of Re-Animator [Re-Animator 2] is a dull horror comic, enlivened by amusing touches of black humour (‘better watch out for premature re-animation’) and some typical gross-out make-up effects […]
Glenda Jackson and Susannah York enjoy an unusual opportunity chewing up Jean Genet’s strange dialogue in director Christopher Miles’s powerful 1975 film version of his flamboyant play The Maids. Black humour lightens up a dark […]
Director John Paddy Carstairs’s 1957 British comedy Just My Luck finds Norman Wisdom re-united with Margaret Rutherford, the co-star of his 1953 debut film Trouble in Store. Just our luck to have Wisdom as Norman […]
Director William A Wellman’s 1947 comedy Magic Town is an underrated pleasure. It describes the politician’s dream – a Magic Town that is a perfect mirror of American opinions. James Stewart stars as opinion pollster […]
Director Tony Maylam’s attractive 1978 adventure The Riddle of the Sands is deliberately old fashioned, with stiff-upper-lip performances, a handsome, well-crafted production and that convincing period atmosphere that the British do so well. The 1903 […]
‘SEE! men and equipment float in air, trapped where there is no gravity – no up or down!’ A scientist sends a three-man team into space to retrieve an asteroid, in this entertainingly bizarre, ‘realistic’ […]
‘Built to serve man… it could think a thousand times faster! move a thousand times faster! kill a thousand times faster…Then suddenly it became a Frankenstein of steel!’ Producer Ivan Tors provides the story for […]
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