Pandaemonium (2000)
Michelle Ross reviews Julien Temple's Pandaemonium, a Ken Russell-like fantasy drama purporting to get inside the relationship between romantic poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge.
The Bed Sitting Room (1969)
Drew reviews The Bed Sitting Room, Richard Lester's original yet rambling adaptation of Spike Milligan and John Antrobus' surreal anti-war West End stage play.
Old Mother Riley, MP (1939)
Mary Haberstroh reviews the slapstick comedy Old Mother Riley MP, starring Arthur Lucan once again as the raucous Irish washerwoman.
Paranoiac (1962)
Drew reviews Hammer's derivative psychological chiller, Paranoiac, starring Oliver Reed and Janette Scott.
Corridor of Mirrors (1948)
David Cairns reviews reviews Terence Young's Corridor of Mirrors, a brooding gothic tale of obsession, romance and murder.
Our Mother's House (1967)
Drew reviews Our Mother's House, Jack Clayton's sombre adaptation of Julian Gloag's novel.
Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)
Michelle Ross reviews Richard Attenborough's satirical anti-war musical, Oh! What a Lovely War.
Young and Innocent (1937)
Mary Haberstroh reviews the suspenseful Alfred Hitchcock romantic thriller Young and Innocent.
Secret Ceremony (1968)
Drew Shimon reviews Joseph Losey's pretentious and meandering morality tale, Secret Ceremony.
Sapphire (1959)
David Cairns reviews Basil Dearden's challenging Sapphire, an intriguing murder mystery and one of the first to deal with racial intolerance.
Nightmare (1964)
Drew Shimon reviews the Hammer chiller Nightmare, about a teenage girl with recurring nightmares, boasting much of the same eerie atmosphere that Freddie Francis brought to bear on The Innocents.
Sabotage (1936)
Mary Haberstroh reviews Alfred Hitchcock's anarchist thriller Sabotage, based on Conrad's novel The Secret Agent.
Women of Twilight (1953)
Drew Shimon reviews Gordon Parry's Women of Twilight, a sordid tale of baby farming and amongst the earliest British films to receive an `X' certificate.
The Black Torment (1964)
Drew Shimon reviews Robert Hartford-Davis' low-budget gothic chiller The Black Torment.
Taste of Fear (1961)
Drew Shimon reviews Hammer Studios Taste of Fear, the first and finest in a series of psychological chillers heavily indebted to Psycho and Les Diaboliques.
No Blade of Grass (1970)
David Cairns reviews Cornel Wilde's bleak apocalyptic drama about a a man trying to lead his family to safety through an English countryside devastated by pollution and anarchy.
Plunkett & Macleane (1999)
Michelle Ross reviews the debut feature of Jake Scott (son of Ridley), Plunkett & Macleane, the period adventure starring Robert Carlyle and Jonny Lee Miller as 18th-century highwaymen.
Our Mutual Friend (BBC, 1976)
Michelle Ross reviews this classic BBC adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel
Brazil (1985)
David Cairn reviews ex-Python Terry Gilliam's daring Orwellian fantasy Brazil.
The Nanny (1965)
Drewe Shimon reviews the Hammer psychodrama The Nanny, adapted from the Evelyn Piper novel and starring Bete Davis.
The Fallen Idol (1948)
Mary Haberstroh reviews Carol Reed's The Fallen Idol, an absorbing adaptation of the Graham Greene short story The Basement Room.
Love Is a Splendid Illusion (1969)
To the beamuement of many, Drew Shimon reviews Tom Clegg's low-budget sexploitation film Love Is a Splendid Illusion.
Hysteria (1964)
Drew Shimon reviews the third in Freddie Francis' trilogy of Hammer psychodramas inspired by Les Diaboliques; again teaming up with Jimmy Sangster.
Clegg (1969)
Drew Shimon reviews Lindsay Shonteff's crime actioner based around the adventures of small-time private-eye Harry Clegg.
Twisted Nerve (1968)
Drew Shimon reviews Roy Boulting's highly controversial 1968 thriller Twisted Nerve.
Me So Hornleigh
David reviews the Inspector Hornleigh trilogy of popular comedy-thrillers based on the successful radio series.
I Start Counting (1969)
Drew reviews David Greene's suspenseful, psychological whodunnit starring Jenny Agutter.
Legend of the Witches (1970)
Drew reviews Malcolm Leigh's documentary tracing the history of witchcraft in the UK.
Boom (1968)
David Cairns reviews Joseph Losey's oddball Tennessee Williams adaptation, Boom!
The Devil Rides Out (1968)
Drew reviews Hammer's masterful adaptation of Dennis Wheatley's ponderous tale of black magic and satanic rites.
Crescendo (1970)
Drew reviews Crescendo, one of Hammer's final forays into the Hitchcockian/Clouzot territory they trod so successfully during the 60s.
Maniac (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.
