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Out of the Blue may appear on the surface to be a strange exponent of punk rock, especially when there is very little actual punk music on the soundtrack. Its lead character, CeBe played by Li...
To the uninitiated, the Spaghetti Western means Sergio Leone, who may not have been enormously prolific, but what he did make shook up the filmmaking world to such an extent that his influence is stil...
Vestron, that fan favourite label of the nineteen-eighties, have been rereleasing various titles on Blu-ray and adding relevant extras to the discs to make them a more enticing prospect for aficionado...
Dean Stockwell (1936-2021) will likely be most remembered for the work of the later years of his career, post-Oscar nomination for Married to the Mob in 1988 and into subsequent television seri...
Joseph Kuo Nan-hong (b. 1935) was a prolific director, and often writer and producer, of martial arts movies out of Taiwan throughout the nineteen-seventies and eighties. Taiwan is often regarded in ...
Before there was The Sweeney on British television of the nineteen-seventies, there was in the previous decade Gideon's Way, which started in 1964 and lasted till 1966. Based on the boo...
MUBI, the film streaming service, have been playing a selection of short Hungarian animations from the Pannonia Studios, the leading exponent of the form in the Eastern European country during the nin...
When American author Jack Finney wrote a magazine serial entitled The Body Snatchers, he had no idea what he was starting, but the story's big idea, that people are being taken over by an alien...
The debate will probably never end as to which werewolf movie of the very early nineteen-eighties was the better, The Howling or An American Werewolf in London (The Wolfen doesn't...
There remains much interest in the tradition of the short supporting cinema feature, which could have been a cartoon, or could have been live action, but was something of a lottery when you dared to s...
To follow up the success of Eureka's Masters of Cinema release of Universal silents, a second batch has been prepared for all those silent movie fans, going even further back into the past than Volume...
Here's a film that in its native land, if it is remembered at all, is recalled as a charming fairy tale from the Brothers Grimm, but in Britain has more menacing connotations, simply because it was on...
Sabata (1969) was a Spaghetti Western character who technically appeared in a couple of movies out of Italy from director Gianfranco Parolini, only he directed another between those two that wa...
Ever since Ray Bradbury wrote the short story The Small Assassin, with its concept of a baby turned into a killer turning on its parents, you might have expected there would be a host of movies...
Jason Axinn is an animation director who won acclaim for his previous film To Your Last Death, and for his new release has updated George A. Romero's classic horror Night of the Living D...
The ParaPod: A Very British Ghost Hunt is a movie spin-off from a popular podcast that pits the rational sceptic against the believer in the supernatural. In it, intrepid explorers Ian Boldswo...
Although the British Transport Films unit has long been closed down, its legacy and its documentaries survive, as here, on the second volume of Blu-rays collecting its best and most significant produc...
Johnny Guitar is a strange chameleon of a Western, one which changes its colours depending on the era in which it is being judged. Initially, in 1954 when it was released, it was regarded as s...
During the nineteen-nineties, there was a craze in the film industry for making television spin-offs into movies, not unlike the British industry in the seventies when inspiration was running dry and ...
Universal is one of the longest running Hollywood studios in existence, and still around today. This means they have a back catalogue of countless films, including many silents from the nineteen-twen...
The Servant is the British film that lurks like the Grim Reaper over the shoulder of the nation's past claims to its Empire, an almighty punishment for anyone who hankers after the "good old da...
The sitcom dad is a staple that is not as prevalent as he once was, there was a time when he would be played by a middle-aged comic actor as the star of the show, but these days he is more relegated t...
There was a renaissance in Hollywood movies in the early nineteen-nineties, specifically among the African American talent who began to step up and tell the stories of their communities in a way they ...
The Children's Film Foundation was a British institution from the nineteen-forties through to the mid-eighties and its productions are still kept in circulation by The British Film Institute through D...
For some reason poetry and experimental music lend themselves to the short film format, be that in animation or documentary or other styles, and the British Film Institute have assembled a collection ...
