2016-11-26 15:50
London’s BFI Southbank is currently staging its now-customary end-of-year blockbuster season. 2016’s retrospective is Black Star, a celebration of the black community’s con… Read More
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An amateur blog reviewing classic movies, specialising in the Hollywood Golden Age, film noir, British comedy and world cinema.
2016-06-05 15:56
Studiocanal is currently in the process of restoring some of the lesser-known titles from Ealing's back catalogue for a debut Blu-ray release. The latest to benefit from a 2K digital spit-sh… Read More
2016-05-14 18:01
High in the Colorado Rockies, bounty hunter Howard Kemp (James Stewart) pursues killer Ben Vandergroat (Robert Ryan), enlisting the help of craggy prospector Jesse Tate (Millard Mitchell) an… Read More
2016-05-10 19:43
This unjustly forgotten British Christmas picture from Alexander Korda's London Films proves to be astonishingly fresh 63 years on - thematically speaking, at least - and well worth a revisi… Read More
2016-05-10 11:15
William A. Wellman's Yellow Sky is currently showing in London as part of the BFI Southbank's Shakespeare On Film season to mark the quatercentenary of the Bard's death and is well worth see… Read More
2015-12-20 12:07
The picture that gave the world Irving Berlin's 'White Christmas', this musical caper starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire is actually a far more erratic and frankly odd affair than you may… Read More
2015-12-18 17:25
Before Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray became embroiled in murderous insurance fraud, they were paired together in this pleasing seasonal screwball scripted by Preston Sturges. Stanwyck… Read More
2015-12-15 22:48
This unjustly forgotten British Christmas picture from Alexander Korda's London Films proves to be astonishingly fresh 63 years on - thematically speaking, at least - and well worth a revisi… Read More
2015-12-15 14:42
Behind every great man, there's a great woman. In the case of Salford leathersmith Will Mossop (John Mills), that lady is Maggie Hobson (Brenda De Banzie), the eldest daughter of his boss, t… Read More
2015-11-27 10:13
There's a sly reference to Patricia Highsmith's pseudonymously published 1952 novel The Price Of Salt, on which this latest prestige picture from Todd Haynes is based, in AMC's Mad Men… Read More
2015-10-18 16:38
Botanists seem to be having a bit of a moment on screen. Matt Damon plays a green-fingered astronaut in The Martian (2015) and now this handsome Danish historical drama washes ashore, in whi… Read More
2015-10-18 14:29
Fans of David Foster Wallace were in uproar when Jason Segel was cast in this biopic of the cult author, horrified that someone known for Judd Apatow bromances should play the troubled geniu… Read More
2015-10-15 21:32
I'm currently taking in a handful of new films at the BFI London Film Festival (LFF) and plan to temporarily handover the blog to reviews of my selection. For readers exclusively commit… Read More
2015-10-15 16:21
Any film whose opening shot presents a sleeping cowpoke's throat being slit, swiftly followed by the disembowelling of Sid Haig, clearly knows its business. S. Craig Zahler's pulp cannibal w… Read More
2015-07-26 16:13
Billy Wilder's inspired POW comedy Stalag 17 is being spruced up and given the Masters of Cinema treatment by Eureka for its Blu-ray debut next week, which is splendid news for fans of this… Read More
2015-07-20 12:13
In Lewis Allen's decidedly queer Technicolor noir Desert Fury, Lizabeth's Scott's Paula Haller quits school and returns home to the "cactus graveyard" of Chuckawalla, Nevada where her mother… Read More
2015-05-07 13:19
Andrew L. Stone's busy little musical for 20th Century Fox is a rare showcase for many of the great African American showbiz stars of the day, its cheery, celebratory tone and top notch song… Read More
2015-04-03 18:56
What's eating Edward G? As gentleman farmer Pete Morgan, he's first seen doting on his adopted daughter Meg (Allene Roberts) and making a generous offer to his new hand Nath Storm (Lon McCa… Read More
2015-02-22 22:26
Despite a modest recent revival of interest in his work, Thorold Dickinson (1903-84) remains one of British cinema's most unjustly neglected directorial talents. He is best known for the glo… Read More
2015-02-22 22:21
Is Calamity Jane the gayest thing that's ever happened? Well, perhaps not. But between Ancient Sparta and this 80's music video by Baltimora, Doris Day was butching it up in deer skins and a… Read More
2014-12-10 11:16
According to Alex Cox, the reason Django (1966) director Sergio Corbucci set his superb Spaghetti Western The Great Silence in snowy mountains rather than the genre's more familiar dusty pla… Read More
2014-11-19 19:20
"Heavens! England's gone!"Here's a rare thing. A "quota quickie" sci-fi from Fox British dating back to 1935, which tells of the fictional Essex hamlet of Shrimpton-on-Sea, unceremoniously p… Read More
2014-11-15 15:54
"I didn't know the big son of a bitch could act!"- John Ford on John WayneHoward Hawks' Red River - a psychological Western with a distinctly Oedipal twist - is often talked about as an earl… Read More
2014-11-15 15:48
Billy Fisher (Tom Courtenay) feels trapped, stifled, buried alive. A lower middle class school leaver unable to afford university, he's stuck in a dead-end job as an undertaker's clerk and l… Read More
2014-11-01 10:21
"What a gorgeous day... what effulgent sunshine... yes... 'twas a day of this sort, the McGillicuddy brothers murdered their mother with an axe!"W.C. Fields here starred as Professor Eu… Read More
2014-10-18 19:17
Warner Brothers hired syndicated newspaper columnist Mark Hellinger in 1937 in a bid to bolster its reputation for making realistic pictures "ripped from the headlines", founded on the succe… Read More
2014-09-23 16:13
What is it about the New Mexico heat that drives men to complete moral collapse? Long before Walter White took to the desert to cook crystal meth in his underpants, washed-up Big City report… Read More
2014-08-09 12:42
It’s no surprise to learn that RKO boss Howard Hughes had a meddling hand in this oddball noir from John Farrow. What starts out as a fairly routine hot climate crime caper - in which… Read More
2014-08-06 18:41
Henry Hathaway's gorgeous Fox noir Kiss Of Death continues to be one of the genre's most underrated entries, benefitting from a trio of brilliant character performances from Victor Mature, B… Read More
2014-07-15 19:18
André de Toth's schlock thriller put Vincent Price on the map as a horror star and ushered in the first wave of hysterical excitement about the possibilities of 3D cinema, something w… Read More
2014-05-26 15:51
As part of the Southbank Centre's fifth annual Alchemy Festival, Australian composer Ben Walsh and his Orkestra of the Underground are in town touring Fearless Nadia, a screening of vintage… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
There's nothing funny about The Man Who Laughs. Paul Leni's film for Universal adapts Victor Hugo's novel of 1869 - set in England, 1690 - to tell the story of Gwynplaine, the innocent young… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Banned in Britain for 30 years, Tod Browning's Freaks remains notorious and I've long shied away from seeing it despite being well aware of the film's important place within cult cinema hist… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Sharing a theme with Rossellini's Journey To Italy (1953) and a milieu with Fellini's La Dolce Vita (1960), La Notte is a deceptively simple tale of the collapse of a loveless marriage from… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Second Run recently released František Vláčil's The White Dove (1960) and Josef Kilián (1963) for the first time on DVD in the UK with the aim of reviving the direc… Read More
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