5 Jan 2016
It’s been four years since the fourth M:I epic ( Ghost Protocol ), and that’s more than enough time to whip up something fittingly and spectacularly silly for…
29 Oct 2015
The fifth Terminator film (in 3D, of course) is also a somewhat blurry rejigging of the first, and revels in absurd time paradoxes and complicated chronological…
11 Oct 2015
This follow-up to 2013’s horror epic Contracted , which attempted to show how a zombie-cum- 28 – Days – Later -type virus could be created (and then left us…
11 Oct 2015
British cartoonist and graphic novelist Posy Simmonds’ Tamara Drewe (filmed by Stephen Frears) was a Thomas-Hardy-influenced attack on pretentious, snobby…
11 Oct 2015
Indefatigable producer/director Roger Corman’s seventh of eight early ‘60s productions drawn from the works of Edgar Allan Poe, this is the best of the bunch…
11 Oct 2015
Character star William H. Macy’s debut as director (and co-writer, executive producer and co-star) is a tough and uncomfortably moving affair that hasn’t made…
11 Oct 2015
One of the mightiest of all original cult/midnight movies, this stark, semi-factual B+W drama from 1969 was directed for a short while by a young Martin…
11 Oct 2015
Something of a lost classic , director Larry Peerce’s raw, uncomfortable drama must have seemed pretty confronting in 1967, and nowadays still feels tense, as…
11 Oct 2015
Richard Matheson’s 1954 novel I Am Legend has been filmed four times: as this first-off-the-rank 1964 outing, as The Omega Man in 1971, under its original title…
2 Sept 2015
The first film properly directed by the late lamented Mario Bava (who also served as cinematographer and uncredited co-writer, as drawing from a novel by…
27 Aug 2015
Late great writer/director/producer Paul Mazursky’s somewhat forgotten fourth feature from back in 1974 is less of an ‘Issue’ movie (see his 1969 début Bob &…
24 Aug 2015
Italian horror maestro Dario Argento’s first film as writer/director from way back in 1969 takes several uncredited cues from Fredric Brown’s novel The…