Reviewing films from the past and the present, and occasionally ranting too!
Happy Holidays A fantastic Christmas film - it's been remade and updated, but for me there's nothing like the original 1947 version for a good feel-good film. Look... it's Santa, I mean Saint Nick, no I mean Kris Kringle Kris Kringle (Edmund Gwenn) turns up to the Macy's Christmas parade only to be hired by… Continue reading Miracle on 34th Street (1947) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Reed used to be a werewolf but he's okay nooooooooooooowww! 😉 Under the glow of a full moon if you hear a howl, it might just be Oliver Reed taking lycanthropic form in Hammer Films’ classic 1961 film “The Curse of the Werewolf”. Brief Description: An adopted boy terrorizes the inhabitants of his local town… Continue reading The Curse of the Werewolf (1961) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
This year was supposed to mark the release of the new 007 film "No Time to Die", but with a global pandemic running rife this has been moved back to 2021. While that's annoying for the fans and for the movie making industry it has allowed me time to re-watch all the old films from… Continue reading 007, Bond, James Bond – License to Kill
No, this is not the one with the donkey and the chambermaid... When Lionel Cosgrove takes his date Paquita to the zoo his over-brooding and over-doting mother is bitten by an extremely rare and poisonous Sumatran rat-monkey. The rare specimen was brought back from Skull Island (yes, the same island King-King is from) and legend… Continue reading Braindead (1992) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
A paint-by-numbers horror film that delivers a knocked-off canvas 30 June 2020 Warning: Spoilers Ghost hunters visit a house to have a séance, where years previously a séance was held that drove a participant insane, resulted in mass murder. What could go wrong? Well, something does go wrong, and it is up to Detective Mark… Continue reading Demonic (2015) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
A bit watered down and obvious, but still a book smart chase/adventure movie 30 July 2018 Warning: Spoilers Robert Langdon is back with another mystery to solve. A vial of anti-matter is stolen from the LHC (Large Haydron Collider) project. The current pope of the Vatican dies in mysterious circumstances. Four cardinals are kidnapped by… Continue reading Angels & Demons (2009) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Ra Ra Rasputin: fun at parties, a gentleman and a scholar 😉 18 September 2015 Don Sharp directs this Hammer House of Horror film from 1966 which is about an hour and a half in duration. Christopher Lee is Grigori Rasputin: The Mad Monk, and why not - Christopher Lee has played every other type… Continue reading Rasputin: The Mad Monk (1966) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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