The Snake Woman (1962)
Drew review's Hammer's convoluted psychological horror.
The Snake Woman (1961)
Drew review's Sidney J. Furie's reptilian b-movie.
Queen of Spades (1949)
David Cairns reviews Thorold Dickinson's lavish gothic adaptation of the Pushkin tale.
Night After Night After Night (1969)
Drew reviews Lindsay Shonteff's sleazy story of a modern day Jack the Ripper preying on Swinging Sixties London.
Shadow of the Cat
(1961)
Drew Shimon reviews the John Gilling directed Hammer outcast Shadow of the Cat; the fanciful tale of an avenging moggy named Tabitha.
The Forgotten Man: The
Films of Maxwell Reed
Dave Pyke chronicles the career of brooding Irish-born actor Maxwell Reed.
I Saw a Film Today,
Oh Boy...
David Cairns reviews Richard Lester's surreal anti-war satire How I Won the War (1967)..
Wilt (1989)
Drew reviews this smutty adaptation of Tom Sharpe's comic novel
starring Griff Rhys Jones and Mel Smith.
The Likely Lads
(1976)
Feature on the big-screen spin-off of Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais'
popular BBC sitcom starring Rodney Bewes and James Bolam.
Individual Pictures;
The cinema of Launder and Gilliat
David Cairns looks at the careers of Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat.
Tod Slaughter: Barnstorming
Butcher of Melodramatic Menace
Career biography of the over-acting, scenery chewing, master of the
macabre Tod Slaughter.
Return to Waterloo
(1985)
Drewv Shimon reviews the directional debut of Kinks frontman Ray Davies,
Return to Waterloo, about a solemn middle-aged commuter whose sense
of reality becomes dangerously distorted.
Corruption (1968)
Mark Emery reevaluates Robert Hartford-Davis's minor masterpiece of
Grand Guignol; Corruption.
Don't Talk
to Strange Men (1962)
Drew Shimon reviews the recently released thriller Don't Talk to Strange Men
from one-time documentarist Pat Jackson.
Permissive (1970)
Drew reviews Lindsay Shonteff's bleak view of a groupie's life on
the road following a rock band.
Unman, Wittering
and Zigo (1971)
Drew Shimon reevaluates John Mackenzie's neglected psychological murder-mystery
Unman, Wittering and Zigo (1971). 60's icon David Hemmings takes the
lead role as a naive schoolteacher continually outmaneuvered by his
ruthlessly cold-blooded pupils.
Deep End (1970)
Drew Shimon revisits Jerzy Skolimowski's criminally ignored urban rites-of-puberty.
Night of the Eagle (1962)
Al Samujh's essay on Sidney Hayers atmospheric occult chiller.
Old Mother Riley : The Life and
Career of Arthur Lucan
Martyn Peter Wilkinson.
Hollywood, Yorkshire
Anna Duggan.
Pitkin: The Life and Films
of Norman Wisdom
Eamonn McCusker on the Clown Prince of Albania.
Karel Reisz: The Rest Is Just
Propaganda
Anna Duggan examines the influence of Karel Reisz on the British New
Wave.
Ken Loach: Another World is Possible
Ann Chadwick talks to Sweet Sixteen director, Ken Loach, screenwriter
Paul Laverty and lead actor, Marton Compston at the 2002 Leeds International
Film Festival.
Robert Krasker: A Gifted
Eye
Daniel H. Guenzel profiles Australian-born cinematographer Bob Krasker
who received an Academy Award for his work on Carol Reed's The Third
Man.
Local Heroes
Anna Duggan examines the connection between contemporary film and 60’s
new wave cinema.
