In the 1972 horror movie Frogs, it’s killer frogs (as well as a few snakes, turtles and lizards thrown in for good measure!) that are rampaging on a remote island in the American Deep South, […]
Director Claude Zidi’s 1999 Asterix and Obelix vs Caesar [Astérix and Obélix contre César] was a huge hit in its countries of origin, France, Germany and Italy, but it is a slack and lazy live-action […]
Director Stuart Gordon’s 1990 made for TV horror movie Daughter of Darkness stars Anthony Perkins and Mia Sara. Mia Sara plays Kathy Thatcher, who is plagued by strange dreams that lead her to Romania in […]
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 […]
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